Jewish-Muslim Relations in Past and Present

Josef Meri, D.Phil. (1999), Oxford University, is Faculty Associate at the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College, U.S.A. He has published extensively on the history of Muslim-non-Muslim relations in the Middle East in past and present. He recently published (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations (2016) and a historical introduction to Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Islam is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of ContributorsTransliteration NoteIntroductionJosef Meri1 The Academic Study of Islamicate JewryNorman A. Stillman2 The “Upright Community”: Interpreting the Righteousness and Salvation of the People of the Book in the QurʾānAsma Afsaruddin3 Jews and Muslims [Re]Define Gender Relations in Their Sacred Books: yimshol and qawwāmūnRuth Roded4 How did Jewish Prayer in the Medieval Islamic World Differ from Its Equivalent in Christian Countries?Stefan C. Reif5 A Matter of Script? Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic in the Genizah CollectionsEsther-Miriam Wagner6 Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Duties of Hearts: A.S. Yahuda and His Study of JudaismSaeko Yazaki7 A Fatwā by al-Māzarī (d. 536/1141) on a Jewish Silk Merchant in GafsaCamilla Adang8 “There on the Poplars [Arabs] We Hung Up [Rely On] Our Lyres [Jewish Music]”: Rabbi ʿOvadyah Yosef’s Halakhic Rulings on Arabic MusicMerav Rosenfeld-Hadad9 ‘Once Upon a Time Our Home Was in Spain’; Comparing Diaspora Discourses among Morisco Descendants and Sephardim TodayMarta Dominguez Diaz10 Muslim-Jewish Relations in France through the Lens of Recent CinemaDinah Assouline Stillman11 Remembering the Jewish Past through Song in Contemporary TunisiaRuth DavisGeneral Index