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