Show Notes
In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas talks to Marc David Baer, Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, about his new book Children of Abraham: The Story of Jewish-Muslim Relations.
Marc discusses:
The recent stabbing in Golders Green, North London
The myth of utopian co-existence and the counter-myth of total antagonism
The earliest encounters of Jews and Muslims in Arabia
The Qur'an's mixed messaging about Jews
The reality of Sharia dhimmitude laws
Jewish-Muslim relations in the Khazar Kingdom, in Al-Andalus, and in the Ottoman Empire
Colonialism and the rupture of Jewish-Muslim relations
Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Jewish-Muslim solidarity today
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