Utopia or Dystopia? The Truth About Jewish-Muslim History

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 (amazon.co.uk/Children-Abraham-Story-Jewish-Mus…).

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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