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

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A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East (The Contemporary Middle East, Series Number 6)

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.
Country USA
Brand Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer Cambridge University Press
Binding Paperback
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Country	USA
Brand	Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer	Cambridge University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780521186872
UnitCount	1
UPCs	000521186870
EANs	9780521186872
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East (The Contemporary Middle East, Series Number 6)

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