332 r Index
Battē midrash, 15
Bedouin society, 273–74
Beggars, 302–3, 306, 313
Beit din, 308
Bel, 27
Believers, 40n17, 94, 272; Abraham as
father of, 4, 52; appeal by, 245; redefin-
ing Islamic, 94; submissiveness, 47;
testing, 48
Bell, Richard, 12, 58
Benabou, Menachem, 314
Benayahu, Meir, 245
Ben-Naeh, Yaron, 300, 303
Ben-Na ̔im, Yosef, 112
Berbers, 275–76
Berdugo, Shlomo, 314
Berith bein ha-Betarim, 53–54
Bethel, 31
Between Muslim and Jew (Wasserstrom),
1–2
Bible, 4; chronology, 45; Dunash language,
250–51; in Jewish parody and allegory,
210–11; King James Version, 173; Muslim
exegesis as source, 23–39; poetry,
230; Quran as source, 23–39. See also
Exodus; Genesis; New Testament; Old
Testament
Binding episode: of Abraham, 57–59; in
Genesis, 57; Muhammad and, 59
bin Lādin, Usāma, 10
Bisam Allah qaomi, 115
Blau, Joshua, 1–2, 14, 16
Blood-libels, 4, 11
Bourgeoisie, 285
Bouzar-Kasbadji, Nadya, 278
Breuer, Zeev Z., 251–52
Brinner, William M., 2
Al-Bukhārī, 79
Burhanuddin, Qazi, 261
Burial sites, 25, 32–33. See also Tombs
Byzantines, 34, 148
Caesarea, 92
Cairo, 215, 230, 279, 304
Caliphates, 2, 276; ̔Abbasid, 8, 98;
Christians and, 99–100; Islamic, 90–92,
102n2; al-Mansur, 248; symbiosis with
Protected People, 97–98, 100
Camel meat, 69, 71–72
Chapels, 34
Charity, 9; AIU and, 314–15; distribution,
306; donations, 305–7, 320n61; endow-
ments, 307–8; from fines, 308–9; in Me-
knes, 299–315; organization of, 304–9;
religious significance, 316; strategies,
312–16; in taqanot, 305–6, 313–14; taxes
and, 305, 307–8
Children of Israel, 67, 173; land promised
to, 53; Torah and, 48
Cholera, 314
Chosen People, 58
Chottin, Alexis, 276, 281
Christendom, 3, 8
Christianity, 4, 13, 48, 59; as idolatrous, 14;
Muhammad as enemy, 71
Christian musicians, 281, 293
Christianovitsch, Alexander, 277–78
Christians, 12, 13, 90; caliphates and,
99–100; Al-Kha††āb, ̔Umar ibn and,
99–100; musicians, 281, 293; poll taxes
and, 99; reacting to conquest narratives,
99–100. See also Non-Muslims
Chronicle of A ̇ima ̔as, 152
Church of the Resurrection, 100
Circumcision, 13, 34, 117, 289
Cohen, B., 81–83
Cohen, Isaac ben Jacob, 152–53
Cohen, Mark, 300
Cole, Peter, 254
Commensality, 3–4, 12; end of, 17; limits,
16
Conquests: Christians reacting to narra-
tives, 99–100; Jewish narratives, 149;
Jews reacting to narratives, 96–99; Mus-
lim narratives, 92–95, 148; non-Muslims
reacting to narratives, 95–96
Consecrations, 26–27, 32, 35, 40n18
Conversions: to Islam in Andalusia, 118;
Jews to Islam, 5, 68–70, 118; to Judaism,
109
Convivencia, 4, 12, 162
Counter history, 5
Covenant between the Pieces, 60;
Abraham and, 53–54; in Genesis, 54;
Muhammad and, 54. See also Berith
bein ha-Betarim