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Envisioning Peace between Israel and Its Arab Allies

(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Ed Husain - I am a Muslim who wants to see long-lasting, real peace between Israel and its Arab allies. In my book, The House of Islam: A Global History (2018), I explain how across a millennium, Muslims and Jews lived together, generally, in peace and harmony. When the prophet Mohamed declared his ummah or community in Medina in 622, Jews were explicitly part of that ummah. The second caliph, Omar, invited Jews to return to Jerusalem in 636 after five centuries of Roman expulsion. Why? Because early Muslims, trained by Mohamed, recognized that Jews were from Judea and Jerusalem was their city. Muslims and Jews, together as brothers of the same father, Abraham, suffered at the hands of the medieval Crusades and then again when the Spanish Inquisition sought blood of Jews and Muslims. The medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides, known as the Rambam, wrote in Arabic and was a physician to Saladin. The writer is a senior fellow at Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society in Westminster and a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.
2020-05-12 00:00:00
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