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Blurb: “JEWS and ARABS - Their Contacts Through the Ages
S. D. Goitein
In this edition, which carries the story of Arab and Jewish cultural developments into the 1970's, Professor Goitein fully explores the social and intellectual contact between Jews and Arabs since their beginnings three thousand years ago. Only against the long historic background of contact and reciprocal influence can the present impasse in the relations between these two peoples be properly understood. This survey touches on many subjects of historical and contemporary importance: the myth of the so-called Semitic races; the Jewish tradition in Islam; the actual and legal position of Jews under Arabic Islam; the rise of Jewish philosophy under Islamic influence; Jewish and Islamic mysticism and poetry; law and ritual. An erudite and well-written sur-vey, JEWs AND ArABs is indispensable to anyone seeking a deeper insight into the long history of Arab-Jewish relations.
S. D. Goitein, professor emeritus of the Hebrew Uni-versity, Jerusalem, is at present a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is also the author of From the Land of Sheba: Tales of the Jews of Yemen (Schocken, 1947, 1973).”