Muslim-Jewish Encounters

The great changes in the Islamic Middle East during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have deeply affected the Jews of that region and their relations with the Muslim majority. One result of these changes was the development of a vast Islamic literature on the Jews and Judaism written against the background of changing social and political climates. On the Jewish side as well, new intellectual and literary trends concerning Islam and the Arabs emerged.
Muslim-Jewish Encounters brings together contributions which examine various Islamic and selected Jewish writings of this kind, analysing their ideas, methods, sources and meanings whilst relating them to new historical and political situations as well as to ancient and medieval writings for comparative purposes.