From one of the most popular historians writing today comes a book as fascinating as the bestsellers of Karen Armstrong and Reza Aslan.
In this captivating chronicle, Martin Gilbert shines new light on a controversial dilemma in the modern world: the troubled relationship between Jews and Muslims. Beginning at the dawn of Islam and sweeping from the Atlantic Ocean to the mountains of Afghanistan, Gilbert presents the first popular and authoritative history of Jewish peoples under Muslim rule. He confronts with wisdom and compassion the stormy events in their dramatic story, including anti-Zionist movements and the forced exodus to Israel. He also gives special attention to the twentieth century and to the current political debate about refugee status and restitution.
Throughout, Gilbert weaves a compelling narrative of perseverance, struggle, and renewal marked by surprising moments of tolerance and partnership. A monumental and timely book, Jews under Muslim Rule is a crowning achievement that confirms Martin Gilbert as one of the foremost historians of our time. List of Photographs
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Acknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration and Dating
Introduction
1. Before Islam
2. The Prophet Mohammed and the Jews
3. Protection or Persecution?
4. The First Four Hundred Years Under Islam
5. Jews and Muslims in the Age of the Crusades
6. The Ottoman Sultans and Other Muslim Rulers, 1324—1699
7. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
8. Progress and Peril: Towards the Twentieth Century
9. The First Years of the Twentieth Century and the Emergence of Zionism
10. Jewish and Arab Nationalism: The First World War and After
11. The Nineteen Thirties
12. The Second World War: A Time of Danger
13. Towards Liberation, and an Uncertain Future
14. The United Nations Palestine Partition Resolution
15. The Creation of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948
