Under Crescent & Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (1994)

You can also find this book on Amazon. Just click here. Format: Trade Paperback ISBN: 069101082X Condition: Very Good The book has a slight amount of shelf wear. Content Description: Did Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages cohabit in a peaceful "interfaith utopia"? Or were Jews under Muslim rule persecuted, much as they were in Christian lands? Rejecting both polemically charged "myths," Mark Cohen offers a systematic comparison of Jewish life in medieval Islam and Christendom—the first in-depth explanation of why medieval Islamic-Jewish relations, though not utopic, were less confrontational and violent than those between Christians and Jews in the West. - from the back cover