Baca sebuah artikel "The Golden Age of Jewish-Muslim relations: Myth and Reality" oleh Mark R Cohen. Artikel tebal sebelas m/surat. Antara kandungannya:
Jewish-Muslim relations: The comparative perspective; The paradigm; The Muslim pragmatism; Judeo-Arabic culture.
Petikan paragraf akhir:
The Arabic language gave Jews entrance to the corridors of Muslim power and made
possible the remarkable careers of such luminaries as Samuel ha-Nagid ibn Naghrela
in the eleventh century, head of the Jewish community, poet, Talmudist, and vizier
of Granada (the father of the Jewish vizier assassinated in 1066), as well as scores
of other Jewish denizens of Islamic courts, many of whom occupy pages in Islamic
chronicles. Other dignitaries, as well as merchants, less well known because they did
not leave books behind, but whose quotidian lives are described in minute detail in
the documents of the Cairo Geniza, are no less important as Jewish exemplars of the
Jewish-Muslim coexistence that reigned for several centuries during the Islamic high
Middle Ages. For such illustrious fi gures in the Jewish elite, those centuries were
indeed a Golden Age.
Sumber: princeton uni (link).
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