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Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today
Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today
Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today
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Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

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Essays on how Jews, Muslims, and Christians have coexisted—or not—over the centuries, from “a particularly incisive and trustworthy historian of religion” (Commonweal).

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David Nirenberg examines how Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived with and thought about each other during the Middle Ages and what the medieval past can tell us about how they do so today.

There have been countless scripture-based studies of the three “religions of the book,” but Nirenberg goes beyond those to pay close attention to how the three religious neighbors loved, tolerated, massacred, and expelled each other—all in the name of God—in periods and places both long ago and far away. Nirenberg argues that the three religions need to be studied in terms of how each affected the development of the others over time, their proximity of religious and philosophical thought as well as their overlapping geographies, and how the three “neighbors” define—and continue to define—themselves and their place in terms of one another. From dangerous attractions leading to interfaith marriage; to interreligious conflicts leading to segregation, violence, and sometimes extermination; to strategies for bridging the interfaith gap through language, vocabulary, and poetry, Nirenberg aims to understand the intertwined past of the three faiths as a way for their heirs to produce the future—together.

“Will be of extraordinary importance not only for specialists in the field but also for general readers and anyone interested in the relations among the three religions.” —Teofilo F. Ruiz, University of California, Los Angeles
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Release dateOct 20, 2014
ISBN9780226169095
Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today
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David Nirenberg

David Nirenberg is the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Mediaeval History and Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (1999).

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