Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations

Josef Meri is Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations, Woolf Institute, Cambridge University. Born in the United States Dr Meri hails from a Jerusalemite family. He has travelled extensively throughout the Middle East and has lived in Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem and from 2005-2010 in Amman, where he oversaw a major Qur’anic exegesis project at the Jordanian Royal Court. He previously held visiting appointments at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Sectional Editor of Wiley-Blackwell's online journal, Religion Compass.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsTransliterationIntroduction - Josef (Yousef) Meri1. Historical Themes: Medieval - Josef (Yousef) Meri2. Historical Themes: Modern - Orit Bashkin and Daniel J. Schroeter3. Scripture and Exegesis - Shari Lowin and Nevin Reda4. Theology - Aaron Hughes5. Medicine – Paulina B. Lewicka and Gad Freudenthal6. Literature (Medieval) - Arie Schippers7. Literature (Modern) - Masha Itzhaki and Soubhi Boustani8. Islamic and Jewish Legal Traditions - Judith Frishman and Umar Ryad9. Philosophy - Oliver Leaman10. Education - Moshe Sokolow and Matthew Wilkinson11. Mysticism - Aaron Hughes12. Communities and Identity - Ben Gidley and Nasar Meer13. Constructive Dialogue –Akbar Ahmed and Edward Kessler14. Palestinian-Israeli Conflict - Donna Divine15. Women - Ibtissam Bouachrine and Judith L. Goldstein16. Nationalism-Arab - Yousef Choueiri17. Nationalism-Jewish - Yair Wallach18. Antisemitism and Islamophobia - Ivan Kalmar and Tariq Ramadan19. The Holocaust - Peter Wien20. The Nakba - Alexander Flores21. Cinema - Dinah Stillman and Aomar Boum22. Music - Edwin Seroussi23. Art - Aaron Rosen and Yasser Tabbaa24. Food and Foodways - David Waines and Sami ZubaidaGlossaryIndex

'This volume [is] an important contribution to the growing literature on Muslim-Jewish relations'- Mark R. Cohen, Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, Emeritus, Princeton University, USA'Josef Meri and thirty-five other scholars lift a reader’s imagination above the current quagmire to the richness and complexities of Muslim-Jewish Relations over 13 centuries. This text is a post-modern exercise confronting the absolutes of power rhetoric with multiple perspectives from an ancient narrative.- Professor Joseph T. Kelley, Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College, USA