| In this interview, we meet Dr. Mark Cohen, who believes that history can teach us something about the potentialities of Jewish-Muslim coexistence.
Interviewer Preville asks, "Do you think Muslims and Jews need to be reminded of their strong historical relationship?" Cohen responds, "It is clear from the Geniza documents that Jews and Muslims coexisted with a much greater degree of harmony than in some other periods of Islamic history and certainly to a much greater extent in Muslim lands than in Christian lands. The situation today has deteriorated so much that people no longer remember those periods of history in which Jews and Muslims lived together relatively peacefully. Jews were always second-class subjects in Muslim lands, as were Christian and Zoroastrians." |
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