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Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today
David Nirenberg
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Description for Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today
Hardcover. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In this book, the author examines how Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived with and thought about each other during the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. The author examines how Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived with and thought about each other during the Middle Ages and what the medieval past can tell us about how they do so today. There have been countless scripture-based studies of the three "religions of the book," but Nirenberg goes beyond those to pay close attention to how the three religious neighbors loved, tolerated, massacred, and expelled each other-all in the ... Read more
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. The author examines how Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived with and thought about each other during the Middle Ages and what the medieval past can tell us about how they do so today. There have been countless scripture-based studies of the three "religions of the book," but Nirenberg goes beyond those to pay close attention to how the three religious neighbors loved, tolerated, massacred, and expelled each other-all in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226168937
SKU
V9780226168937
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About David Nirenberg
David Nirenberg is the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought and the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, both at the University of Chicago. His most recent book is Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition. He lives in Chicago.
Reviews for Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today
"Cogent and powerful.... There are no books presently in print that even approach Nirenberg's in terms of its themes, thoroughness, or interpretive thrust." (Teofilo F. Ruiz, University of California, Los Angeles)"