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Jews of a Saharan Oasis (Paperback, New ed.)
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Jews of a Saharan Oasis (Paperback, New ed.)
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John Hunwick's concise but poignant study of a single Jewish
community in the North-Western Sahara provides an African-based
refutation to the myth of a pre-Zionist ""Golden Era"" between
Muslims and Jews. Thoroughly exploiting the extant (if scant)
Arabic writings on the subject, Hunwick examines the rise and purge
of a Jewish communal outpost of Tlemcen (now Algeria), which lay in
the Touat oasis more than a third of the way to Timbuktu (where
Jews also participated in the trans-Saharan trade).Muhammad
al-Maghili was a Tlemcen-born cleric who, sometime in the
mid-1400s, took violent exception not only to the prosperity of the
Jews, but also to their very presence in the midst of Touat.
Hunwick implies that al-Maghili's enmity stemmed from economic envy
or rage...Al-Maghili then went on to counsel, successfully,
banishment of Jews from the Songhay Empire.
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