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Book review: Children of Abraham: The story of Jewish-Muslim relations by Marc David Baer

Book review: Children of Abraham: The story of Jewish-Muslim relations by Marc David Baer

Wednesday, April 1, 2026
S. D. GOITEIN, the great scholar of the Cairo Geniza, famously characterised Jewish-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages by using the term “symbiosis”. In the social, economic, cultural, and intellectual spheres, Goitein proposed, Jews and Muslims ...