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The Jews of Islam

book by Bernard Lewis

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ7743250 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Jews of Islam (1984) is a book written by Middle-East historian and scholar Bernard Lewis. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the history and the state of the Jews living in the Islamic world (as contrasted to the Jews of Christendom). The first chapter, "Islam and Other Religions", is broader in scope and explains how medieval Islamic society viewed the Other.

Contents

Chapter I. Islam and Other religions

Chapter II. The Judaeo-Islamic Tradition

Chapter III. The Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods

Chapter IV. The End of the Tradition

Reviews

Stillman, Norman A. (October 1984). "Peaceful Coexistence". The New York Review of Books. 31 (16). Retrieved 2006-08-10.

Schroeter, Daniel J. (November 1989). "The Jews of Islam, Review".

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Jews of Islam” as book by Bernard Lewis. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 2006, 1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Jews, Islam and book can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as book by Bernard Lewis. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7743250. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1984, 2006 and 1989.

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Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow The Jews of Islam primary sources, The Jews of Islam archive and Jews research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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This entry incorporates text from “The Jews of Islam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.