Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis Under Early Islam

by Steven M. Wasserstrom

Book Overview

Steven Wasserstrom undertakes a detailed analysis of the "creative symbiosis" that existed between Jewish and Muslim religious thought in the eighth through tenth centuries. Wasserstrom brings the disciplinary approaches of religious studies to bear on questions that have been examined previously by historians and by specialists in Judaism and Islam. His thematic approach provides an example of how difficult questions of influence might be opened...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691608970
• ISBN13: 9780691608976
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"