Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Middle Islamic Period

Jews in the Ayyubid and Mamluk Sultanates (1171–1517)

Stephan Conermann, Stephan Conermann

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9783847007920
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: History

This book contributes to the history of medieval Jewry in general, as a basis for a comparative study of the position of the Jews in Christian Europe in the Late Middle Ages. The eight articles written by leading experts on this topic pay special attention to the following issues: the measure of tolerance of the Mamluk rulers and the Muslim populace toward the Jews; Jews in government positions and as court physicians; conversion and attitudes toward converted Jews; the Sufi (mystical) nature of Jewish leadership and its relation to the Sufi Islamic discourse; professional, intellectual, and legal interactions between Jews and Muslims. In the end, the contributions help us to sharpen our understanding of Jewish life during the Middle Islamic Period in the Near East.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Stephan Conermann: Introduction
• Body
• Dotan Arad: Being a Jew under the Mamluks: Some Coping Strategies
• Paul B. Fenton: Su“s and Jews in Mamluk Egypt
• Miriam Frenkel: Eliyahu Ashtor – A Forgotten Pioneer Researcher of Jewish History under the Mamluks
• Yehoshua Frenkel: Conversion Stories from the Mamlūk Period
• Nathan Hofer: The Ideology of Decline and the Jews of Ayyubid and Mamluk Syria
• Paulina B. Lewicka: Healer, Scholar, Conspirator. The Jewish Physician in the Arabic-Islamic Discourse of the Mamluk Period
• Elisha Russ-Fishbane: Earthquake, Famine, and Plague in Early Thirteenth-Century Egypt: Muslim and Jewish Sources
• Walid A. Saleh: The Status of the Bible in 9th/15th Century Cairo: The Fatwas collected by al-Biqāʿī (d. 885/1480)
• Authors