Utopia or Dystopia? The Truth About Jewish-Muslim History
MAY 14, 202661 MIN
Utopia or Dystopia? The Truth About Jewish-Muslim History
MAY 14, 202661 MIN
Description
In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas talks to Marc David Baer, Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, about his new book Children of Abraham: The Story of Jewish-Muslim Relations.
Marc discusses:
The recent stabbing in Golders Green, North London
The myth of utopian co-existence and the counter-myth of total antagonism
The earliest encounters of Jews and Muslims in Arabia
The Qur'an's mixed messaging about Jews
The reality of Sharia dhimmitude laws
Jewish-Muslim relations in the Khazar Kingdom, in Al-Andalus, and in the Ottoman Empire
Colonialism and the rupture of Jewish-Muslim relations
Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Jewish-Muslim solidarity today
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