Jews, Visigoths, and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Cooperation and Conflict

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BRILL, 1994 - 367 pages
Jews settled in medieval Spain at least by the third century, and under the Christian Visigoths (sixth to eighth centuries) suffered increasing hostility and persecution, from which they were saved by the Muslim invasion (711). This book details the relations between Jews and the Visigoths, and then with the Muslims both in Muslim Spain proper (al-Andalus) and in later Christian Spain to the fifteenth century. It examines both the positive and negative aspects of those relations, drawing on a variety of sources many of which are here utilized for the first time. Political, socio-economic, scientific, cultural, literary and even sexual aspects of the history of the interaction between Jews and Visigoths, and Jews and Muslims, provide hopefully a new insight into a period of great importance in history.
 

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Introduction
1
The Jews in Visigothic Spain
7
Survey of the Literature
39
Survey of the Literature
69
Jews and Muslims Under Almoravids
113
Cities Economy and Slavery
137
Cooperation and Conflict
163
Jewish Polemic Against Islam
205
Notes
235
Glossary
325
Bibliography
331
General Index
345
Index of Words and Terms
366
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Norman Roth, Ph.D. (Cornell, 1978), professor of Jewish history and medieval Hebrew literature and philosophy, University of Wisconsin (Madison). Author of many articles and books, including "Maimonides. Essays and Texts" (1985).

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