Anouar Majid

Anouar Majid is Professor of English, founding director of the Center for Global Humanities, founding director of the Tangier Global Forum, vice president for Global Affairs at the University of New England and author of several books. His work has dealt with the place of Islam in the age of globalization and Muslim-Western relations since 1492.

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Never Forget: Jews and Muslims have Often imagined themselves in History as Siblings and Allies

Anouar Majid

Excerpted from Tingis. Historically, and even theologically, Jews have always been closer to Muslims than they were to Christians. It was in Muslim lands, the late eminent historian Bernard Lewis told us, that Arabic “became the language of science and philosophy, of government and commerce, even the language of Jewish theology when such a discipline […]