"This is the first encyclopedic guide to the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world from the birth of Islam to today. Richly illustrated and beautifully produced, the book features more than 150 authoritative and accessible articles by an international team of leading experts in history, politics, literature, anthropology, and philosophy. Organized thematically and chronologically, this indispensable reference provides critical facts and balanced context for greater historical understanding and a more informed dialogue between Jews and Muslims."--Jacket.

Includes maps of: Jewish Communities in North Africa int eh Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Part 1: The Middle ages / edited by Mark R. Cohen. The emergence of Islam ; In Islamic lands ; In Christendom -- Part 2: The modern world / edited by Gilles Veinstein. In Ottoman territory, fifteenth to nineteenth centuries ; Northern Africa ; Asia and the Middle East ; Relations with the European world -- Part 3: The present / edited by Denis Charbit, Elias Sanbar, and Benjamin Stora. The beginnings of the separation ; Confronting Nazism ; The great rupture in the Middle East ; Spaces of cohabitation ; Tense conversations ; Looking at the other -- Part 4: Transversalities / edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb and Sylvie Anne Goldberg. Founding books, mirror images ; Mirrored languages ; Two religions of the law ; Philosophy, science, and intellectual movements ; Mysticism ; Memory and history.