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Jewish-Muslim Encounters: History, Philosophy and Culture »

Authors: Charles Selengut
ISBN-13: 9781557788092, ISBN-10: 155778809X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Date Published: September 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Introduction
1	Philosophy and the Divine Law in Maimonides and Al-Farabi in Light of Maimonides' Eight Chapters and Al-Farabi's Chapters of the Statesman	1
2	The Qur'anic View of Moses as a Messenger of God from the Children of Israel to Pharaoh	35
3	From the Maghreb to Montreal: Moroccan Saint Veneration among Muslims and Jews	51
4	Nationalism and Religion in Jewish and Muslim Fundamentalism	72
5	Judaism and Islam: Coping with and Contemplating Democracy	89
6	Judaism, Islam and the Middle East Conflict: The Social Psychology of Religious Disappointment	102
7	Encounters in Crisis: Jewish, Converso and Muslim Interaction with Christian Powers in Late Medieval Seville	119
8	The Temple Mount and My Grandmother's Paper Bag: An Essay on Inter-Religious Relations	141
9	Kabbalah and Sufism: A Comparative Look at Jewish and Islamic Mysticism	165
10	Convergence and Divergence within the American Muslim Movement	180
11	Thoughts on Some Possibilities for Muslim-Jewish Dialogue	197
	Notes on Contributors	211