{"product_id":"children-of-abraham-the-1-400-year-history-of-jewish-muslim-relations","title":"Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish–Muslim Relations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the prize-winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ottomans\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, a myth-busting history of Muslim–Jewish relations, tracing fourteen centuries of cooperation and conflict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A revelatory picture of both coexistence and conflict.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eJerusalem: The Biography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, the dominant narrative of the relationship between Jewish and Muslim peoples assumes a long history of violent hostility. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChildren of Abraham\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, historian Marc David Baer lays this myth to rest, showing how Jews and Muslims lived together in the Middle East and Europe, more often in cooperation than in conflict, for more than a millennium. When Islam emerged in the seventh century, Muslims and Jews were bound by shared religious tenets and common cultural practices, and for centuries afterward, they were often allies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaer introduces readers to Muslim warriors fighting for a medieval Turkish Jewish kingdom on the Caspian Sea, Jewish viziers leading the Muslim sultan’s troops in Spain, and Jewish literary lights and political party leaders in modern Egypt and Iraq. But Baer resists the alluring fable that Jews and Muslims ever lived in interfaith utopia, and he shows how European colonization and nationalism fed the emergence of modern antisemitism and Islamophobia and helped to drive these two peoples further and further apart.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraversing the full spectrum of Jewish–Muslim relations, this is an urgent, essential history for understanding today’s unending conflicts in the Middle East and beyond.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eby Marc David Baer (Author)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover, 496 Pages, Published June 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HACHETTE BOOK GROUP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47674248790203,"sku":"9781541606593","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0548\/0444\/7419\/files\/Temp_02434bc6-af10-4174-b274-3048bccac9db.jpg?v=1775668862","url":"https:\/\/shop.skirball.org\/products\/children-of-abraham-the-1-400-year-history-of-jewish-muslim-relations","provider":"Audrey's Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}