In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands

440 Pages·2010·3.5 MB·English

by  Martin Gilbert

IN ISHMAEL’S HOUSE
BOOKS BY MARTIN GILBERT
THE CHURCHILL BIOGRAPHY
Volume III: The Challenge of War, 1914–1916
Document Volume III (in two parts)
Volume IV: World in Torment, 1917–1922
Document Volume IV (in two parts)
Volume V: The Coming of War, 1922–1939
Document Volume V: The Exchequer Years, 1922–1929
Document Volume V: The Wilderness Years, 1929–1935
Document Volume V: The Coming of War, 1936–1939
Volume VI: Finest Hour, 1939–1941
Churchill War Papers I: At the Admiralty, September 1939–May 1940
Churchill War Papers II: Never Surrender, May–December 1940
Churchill War Papers III: The Ever–Widening War, 1941
Volume VII: Road to Victory, 1941–1945
Volume VIII: Never Despair, 1945–1965
Churchill: A Photographic Portrait
Churchill: A Life
OTHER BOOKS
The Appeasers (with Richard Gott)
The European Powers, 1900–1945
The Roots of Appeasement
Children’s Illustrated Bible Atlas
Atlas of British Charities
Atlas of American History
Atlas of the Arab–Israeli Conflict
Atlas of British History
Atlas of the First World War
Atlas of the Holocaust
Atlas of Jewish History
Atlas of Russian History
Atlas of the Second World War
The Jews of Russia: Their History in Maps
Jerusalem Illustrated History Atlas
Sir Horace Rumbold: Portrait of a Diplomat
Jerusalem: Rebirth of a City
Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century
Exile and Return: The Struggle for Jewish Statehood
Israel: A History
Auschwitz and the Allies
The Jews of Hope: The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today
Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time
The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy
The Boys: Triumph over Adversity
First World War
The Battle of the Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War
Second World War
D–Day
The Day the War Ended
In Search of Churchill
Churchill and America
Empires in Conflict: A History of the Twentieth Century, 1900–1933
Descent into Barbarism: A History of the Twentieth Century, 1934–1951
Challenge to Civilization: A History of the Twentieth Century, 1952–1999
Never Again: A History of the Holocaust
The Jews in the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated History
The Story of Israel
Letters to Auntie Fori: The 5,000–Year History of the Jewish People and Their
Faith
The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction
EDITIONS OF DOCUMENTS
Britain and Germany Between the Wars
Plough My Own Furrow: The Life of Lord Allen of Hurtwood
Servant of India: Diaries of the Viceroy’s Private Secretary, 1905–1910
Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence, 1937–1964
MARTIN GILBERT
IN ISHMAEL’S HOUSE
A HISTORY OF JEWS IN MUSLIM LANDS
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW HAVEN AND LONDON
Published by arrangement with McClelland & Stewart Ltd, Toronto, Canada
Copyright © 2010 by Martin Gilbert All rights reserved. This book may not be
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Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Gilbert, Martin, 1936
Jews under Muslim rule: a 1,400–year history/Martin Gilbert.
ISBN 978–0–7710–3369–8
1. Jews–Islamic Empire–History. 2. Jews–Islamic countries–History
3. Judaism–Relations–Islam–History.
4. Islam–Relations–Judaism–History. I. Title.
BP173 J8G54 2010 296.3′97 C2009–906537–1
ISBN 978–0–300–16715–3
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This book is dedicated
to the 13 million Jews and the 1,300 million Muslims in the world
in the hope that they may renew
in the Twenty–First Century
the mutual tolerance, respect and partnership
that marked many periods in their history
CONTENTS
List of Photographs
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration and Dating
Introduction
1. Before Islam
2. The Prophet Mohammed and the Jews
3. Protection or Persecution?
4. The First Four Hundred Years Under Islam
5. Jews and Muslims in the Age of the Crusades
6. The Ottoman Sultans and Other Muslim Rulers, 1324 015–1699
7. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
8. Progress and Peril: Towards the Twentieth Century
9. The First Years of the Twentieth Century and the Emergence of Zionism
10. Jewish and Arab Nationalism: The First World War and After
11. The Nineteen Thirties
12. The Second World War: A Time of Danger
13. Towards Liberation, and an Uncertain Future
14. The United Nations Palestine Partition Resolution
15. The Creation of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948
16. Iraq, 1948–1952
17. Egypt, 1951–1961
18. The Exodus Continues, 1950–1967
19. The Six–Day War of 1967 and Its Aftermath
20. A New Life in New Lands
21. The Search for Recognition
22. Jews Who Remain in Muslim Lands
Maps
Glossary
Bibliography
Index