Jews and Muslims in the Arab World

Lassner Jacob Troen S. Ilan

ISBN 10: 074255841X / ISBN 13: 9780742558410

Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2007

pp. 410 14:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam. Codice articolo 8036083

Riassunto:

Jews and Muslims in the Arab World highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that both Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics. Whether real or imagined, the past filtered through their collective memories has had and will continue to have enormous influence on how Jews and Arabs perceive themselves and each other. Jews and Muslims in the Arab World describes the ways in which the past is absorbed, internalized, and then processed among Jews and Arabs. The book stresses the importance of historical imagination on the current evolving political cultures, but does not claim that explanations from an ancient past shed light on every aspect of contemporary events.

Informazioni sull'autore: 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.

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Titolo: Jews and Muslims in the Arab World
Casa editrice: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Data di pubblicazione: 2007
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: New