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Sunlight and Shadow: The Jewish Experience of Islam (Cultural Studies (New York, N.Y.).) Author: Lucien Gubbay $5.98 |
Sunlight and Shadow: The Jewish Experience of Islam (Cultural Studies (New York, N.Y.).) |
Editorial Review:
This book traces the condition of Jews living in the world of Islam, through good times and bad times, from the age of Muhammad to the present struggles between Arabs and Israelis. Muslims and Jews have lived together and reacted to each other for the past 1,400 years but few Jews today have much idea of how their brethren once fared under Islam. Muslims too know little of the history of what was to them an insignificant minority. Despite their subordinate status in Muslim society, Jews participated in the flowering of the brilliant international civilization made possible by the almost world-wide conquests of the Arabs and bound together by the Arabic language; and it was under Muslim rule that the early Judaism developed into the religion we know today. Later Jews enjoyed another golden age in the heyday of the Ottoman Empire. Sunlight and Shadow details this turbulent history.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
An apt title:
Into a short book of 160 pages Lucien Gubbay packs what is for the most part a workmanlike account of the relationship between the Jews and Islam. The title is very apt. Gubbay does not underplay the shadow side of the relationship: for most of the history of Islamic rule over Jews, the latter were second-class citizens, though protected (that is what the word `dhimmi' means) from active persecution as long as they paid a special tax and were loyal subjects of their rulers - which they were, from the early...
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Lucien Gubbay masterfully presents the larger historical context:
Lucien Gubbay, Sunlight and Shadow: The Jewish Experience of Islam (Other Books, 2001)
The largest dilemma currently facing Sephardim is the problem of self-knowledge. Our children who attend American Jewish day schools are faced exclusively with Ashkenazi oriented curricula and administrators and teachers who, even if they are Sephardi in ethnic origin, have been trained in the methods of the ubiquitous Board of Jewish Education and the general detritus of the larger Orthodox Torah Umesorah system...more info
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