In this first comparative treatment of charity and charitable institutions in Islam and Muslim societies of the Middle East, Yaacov Lev mines a variety of primary sources, including Arabic chronicles,
“An impressive collection of essays that adds great depth and breadth to our understanding of Jewish-Muslim relations in the modern period.”—Jeffrey Kenney, author of Muslim Rebels: Kharijites and the
The Convergence of Judaism and Islam offers fifteen interdisciplinary studies that investigate the complex relationships between the cultures of Jews and Muslims during the medieval and early modern p
