1st Edition

Muslim and Jew Origins, Growth, Resentment

By Aaron W Hughes Copyright 2019
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

Muslim and Jew: Origins, Growth, Resentment seeks to show how and why Islam and Judaism have been involved in political and theological self-definitions using the other since the seventh century. This short volume provides a historical and comparative survey of how each religion has thought about the other and, in so doing, about itself. It confines itself to those points at which Judaism and... Read more



Preface



Acknowledgments



A Word on Transliteration 



Introduction: The Anatomy of a Relationship



Chapter One: Origins



Chapter Two: Growth



Chapter Three: Resentment



Conclusions: Disengagement



Bibliography



Index

Biography

Aaron W. Hughes is the Philip S. Bernstein Professor in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester. His numerous books include Abrahamic Religions: On the Uses and Abuses of History (2012), Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam (2013), and Shared Identities: Medieval and Modern Imaginings of Judeo-Islam (2017).

"In Muslim and Jew, Aaron Hughes transcends traditional historiography about Jewish-Muslim relations and tired paradigms of cultural borrowing to provide us with a more interesting and complicated picture of the relationship between these two communities from the foundations of Islam to the present."

Philip Ackerman-Lieberman, Vanderbilt University, USA