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Medieval Iberia offers one of the few examples of coexistence over an extended period of time between Jews. Muslims and Christians in pre-modern Europe. Taking the Jewish community as a focal point, this book thoroughly explores the various "borders"-geographical divides, religious affiliations, gender boundaries, genre divisions-that ruled the lives and intellectual production of late medieval Jews. By shedding new light on the ways in which these boundaries generated the Jewish communities multiple, overlapping, and conflicting identities, this book breaks new ground in the study of...

Volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam is devoted to the history of the western Islamic lands from the political fragmentation of the eleventh century to the beginnings of European colonialism towards the end of the eighteenth century. This volume embraces a vast area from al-Andalus and North Africa to Arabia and the lands of the Ottomans.