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A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East

A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East

Sharkey, Heather J.

Paperback

Series: Contemporary Middle East, Book 6

IslamGeneral ChristianityGeneral Middle Eastern History

Publisher Price: $34.99

ISBN10: 0521186870
ISBN13: 9780521186872
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Apr 3 2017
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.11 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
Across centuries, the Islamic Middle East hosted large populations of Christians and Jews in addition to Muslims. Today, this diversity is mostly absent. In this book, Heather J. Sharkey examines the history that Muslims, Christians, and Jews once shared against the shifting backdrop of state policies. Focusing on the Ottoman Middle East before World War I, Sharkey offers a vivid and lively analysis of everyday social contacts, dress, music, food, bathing, and more, as they brought people together or pushed them apart. Historically, Islamic traditions of statecraft and law, which the Ottoman Empire maintained and adapted, treated Christians and Jews as protected subordinates to Muslims while prescribing limits to social mixing. Sharkey shows how, amid the pivotal changes of the modern era, efforts to simultaneously preserve and dismantle these hierarchies heightened tensions along religious lines and set the stage for the twentieth-century Middle East.

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