Children of Abraham: The Story of Jewish-Muslim Relations by Marc David Baer #joyce and the David Cohen Prize

and the David Cohen Prize for literature in 1997

PenguinISBN: 9780241252536Extent: 368 pages

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Children of Abraham: The Story of Jewish-Muslim Relations by Marc David Baer #joyce and the David Cohen PrizeMuslims and Jews have engaged one another sometimes for better, sometimes for worse for over 1,400 years. Yet recent discourse tends to focus on only the most antagonistic aspects of the two communities' interactions. Marc David Baer paints a more nuanced picture of Muslim Jewish relations, from Muhammad's first interactions with Jewish Arabs in the seventh century and their shared struggles after the Spanish Reconquista to the ongoing modern conflict