The Divergence of Judaism and Islam: Interdependence, Modernity, and Political Turmoil

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Contents Acknowledgments vii 1. Introduction 1 Michael M. Laskier and Yaacov Lev Section I: Common Interests versus Latent and Overt Tensions 2. Ottoman Attitudes toward the Modernization of Jewish Education in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 17 Avigdor Levy 3. “Zeal and Noise”: Jewish Imperial Allegiance and the GrecoOttoman War of 1897 29 Julia Phillips Cohen 4. Sharing the Same Fate: Muslims and Jews of the Balkans 51 Ömer Turan 5. “We Don’t Want to Be the Jews of Tomorrow”: Jews and Turks in Germany after 9/11 74 Gökçe Yurdakul and Y. Michal Bodemann 6. Jews and Muslims “Downunder”: Emerging Dialogue and Challenges 97 Suzanne D. Rutland Section II: Socioeconomic and Political Interaction in Arab Lands and Central Asia: Toward Jewish Immigration 7. Yemen: Muslim and Jewish Interactions in the Tribal Sphere 125 Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman 8. In Search of Jewish Farmers: Jews, Agriculture, and the Land in Rural Morocco 143 Daniel J. Schroeter 9. The Moroccan Nationalist Movement and Its Attitude toward Jews and Zionism 160 Dalit Atrakchi 10. Jewish-Muslim Relations in Libya 173 Rachel Simon 11. Where Have All the Jews Gone? Mass Migration from Independent Uzbekistan 199 Alanna E. Cooper Section III: In the Shadow of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: History, Ideology, and Political Strategy 12. Issues of Jewish History as Reflected in Modern Egyptian Historiography 227 Rachel Maissy-Noy 13. The Road Not Taken: Isḥāq Mūsā al-Ḥusseini and His Chickens 254 Hanita Brand 14. Space as a Demon and the Demon in the Space: Jewish-Muslim Relations in the Israeli Space in A. B. Yehoshua’s Literary Works 270 Carmela Saranga and Rachel Sharaby 15. Interreligious Dialogue and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An Empirical View 288 Ben Mollov 16. Zionism and Judeo-Islamic Relations in the Middle East: Libya’s Ideological and Political Position 306 Yehudit Ronen List of Contributors 329 Index 337 ...