Shared Identities: Medieval and Modern Imaginings of Judeo-Islam

by Aaron W. Hughes

Received opinion imagines Judaism and Islam as two distinct religions interacting in the centuries following the death of Muhammad in the early seventh century. Tradition describes the relations between the two groups using such tropes as "symbiosis." In this revisionist work, Aaron W. Hughes instead argues that various porous and marginal groups-neither fully Muslim nor fully Jewish-exploited a shared terminology to make sense of their social worlds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190684461
• ISBN13: 9780190684464
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"