Lexington Books
Pages: 208
Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
978-0-7391-6814-1 • Hardback • November 2011 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-0-7391-8451-6 • Paperback • May 2013 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
978-0-7391-6815-8 • eBook • November 2011 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
Joseph V. Montville is director of Toward the Abrahamic Family Reunion, (abrahamicfamilyreunion.org). He is also Distinguished Diplomat in Residence at American University and Chair of the Board & Senior Fellow for the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. He is also a senior associate in the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations at Merrimack College in N. Andover, MA.
Chapter 1 Preface: Recovering History: A Psychodynamic Approach to Peacemaking
Chapter 2 1. Jewish and Islamic Life in the Middle Ages: Through the Window of the Cairo Geniza
Chapter 3 2. Sharing Science: Jews, Muslims and Practical Science in the Medieval Islamic World
Chapter 4 3. "The Battle of Alfuente" by Samuel the Nagid
Chapter 5 4. On Muslim Curiosity and the Historiography of the Jews of Yemen
Chapter 6 5. Doctors without Borders: Medicine in the Mediterranean World
Chapter 7 6. Merchants and Cross-Cultural Commerce in the Medieval Mediterranean World
Chapter 8 7. Sufism and Philosophy in Muslim Spain and the Medieval Mediterranean World