Jews and Muslims in the Arab World

Jacob Lassner is professor of Jewish civilization in the departments of history and religion at Northwestern University. He is the author of seven books, most recently, The Middle East Remembered: Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces and numerous articles on Jewish-Muslim relations and Near Eastern History. S. Ilan Troen is the Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Chair in Israel Studies at Brandeis University and the Sam and Anna Lopin Professor in Modern History, emeritus, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the founding editor of Israel Studies (Indiana University Press), the leading journal in the field, and the author or editor of ten books on American, Jewish and Israeli History. His most recent book is Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: The Uses and Misuses of the PastPart 2 The Arab World: Imagining the Past, Defining the Present, Anticipating the FutureChapter 3 The Arab Nation-State: Marking Modern Identities by Embracing Pasts Real and ImaginedChapter 4 Defining Arab Palestine: Historical Geography, Imagined Polities, and Sacred SpaceChapter 5 "My Land [Biladi]": The Formation of Palestinian National Consciousness and the Quest for a Modern Nation-StateChapter 6 The Call to Arms: A Mark of Palestinian NationhoodChapter 7 The Islamic Movement: Traditional Islam and Palestinian Nationalism after 1987Chapter 8 Haunted by the Past: The Islamists and the Peace ProcessPart 9 The Modern State of Israel: Integrating Pasts Real and ImaginedChapter 10 A Lexicon of Near Eastern Identities: The Jewish People by Various Names and Foundational NarrativesChapter 11 Jews, Arabs and Modern Biblical Scholarship: Academic Politics and the Politics of National ConsciousnessChapter 12 The Emergence of Zionism: A Secular and Humanist NarrativeChapter 13 Return, Reclaim and ReconstituteChapter 14 Accommodation with the Arabs of PalestineChapter 15 Epilogue

This impressive book deals with a significant topic that has not been studied before in a methodical and comprehensive manner. This comprehensive and comparative study extensively adds to our understanding of the two communities and their enduring conflict. This book should be read and digested by all those who are interested in these communities and their complex historical clash.