Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined

ISBN-13: 9780742558410 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 410 str.

Jacob Lassner

Opis

Jews and Muslims in the Arab World highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that both Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics. Whether real or imagined, the past filtered through their collective memories has had and will continue to have enormous influence on how Jews and Arabs perceive themselves and each other.