Jews under Christianity and under Islam
Prof. Mark R. Cohen
Though there were indeed exceptional cases of anti-Jewish violence, one thing appears to be clear when discussing Jewish life under Islam until the modern period – the violent and destructive early forms of antisemitism that developed in medieval Christian Europe do not appear in the Islamic and Arab world. Why is this so?
References
Cohen, Mark R., Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present
Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present
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