A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day

RR 2016/108 A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day Edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb and Benjamin Stora Princeton University Press Princeton, NJ and Oxford 2013 1147 pp. ISBN 978 0 691 15127 4 (print); ISBN 978 1 400 84913 0 (e-book); £52 $75 Published in French by Éditions Albin Michel 2013; translated by Jane Marie Todd and Michael B. Smith

Keywords Islam, History, Judaism

Review DOI 10.1108/RR-03-2016-0071

This illustrated and lengthy volume was written by a team of experts - both Muslim and Jewish - to respond to what the editors saw as scholarly, political and pedagogical needs. It was written as "'a biography' of a living and complex relationship" as noted in the Foreword (p. 7). The book was conceived and...