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Article: Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- August 1, 1996
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Under Crescent and Cross is not just another history of "the Jews in the Middle Ages." Rather, it seeks to make a point, namely, that "Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian relations followed strikingly different courses in the Middle Ages" (p. 195). The author, professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, is not the first person to approach this issue nor the first to propose such a conclusion. Scholars of the stature of S.D. Goitein or B. Lewis have done so before. What this book presents is a close and detailed examination of several (though not all) aspects of medieval life - religion and religious polemics, economic and social life, legal and political ...