Jewish Muslims

David M. Freidenreich is Pulver Family Professor of Jewish Studies at Colby College and author of Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law.

• ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Jewish Muslims? PART ONE. BIBLICAL MUSLIMS1. Paul’s Rivals and the Early Christian Discourse of Anti-Judaism First through Sixth Centuries2. Making Sense of the Muslim ConquestsSeventh through Ninth Centuries3. “Drive Out the Slave and Her Son”Eleventh through Fourteenth Centuries4. Imagining the Dome of the Rock as the Biblical TempleSeventh through Fourteenth CenturiesPART TWO. JUDAIZING MUSLIMS5. “New Jews”: Muslims as Foils for Educating Eastern ChristiansSeventh through Ninth Centuries6. What Makes Islam Jewish? Allegations of Carnality and IrrationalityEighth through Twelfth Centuries7. Muhammad the Jew, and Other Moralizing SlursTwelfth through Seventeenth Centuries8. The Logic, and the Consequences, of Defining Muslims as JudaizersFourth through Seventeenth CenturiesPART THREE. ANTI-CHRISTIAN MUSLIMS9. Muslims Killed Christ!? Theological Arguments and Political AgendasEleventh through Seventeenth Centuries10. Conspiracy Theories: Muslim Agents of Jewish MalevolenceSeventh through Fourteenth Centuries11. How Muslims, Jews, and Romans Became Worshippers of MuhammadTwelfth through Fifteenth Centuries12. Luther’s Rivals and the Emergent Discourse of Anti-IslamSixteenth CenturyAfterword: Rhetoric about Muslims and Jews TodayAcknowledgmentsChronologyNotesBibliographyIndex

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