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Apr 12, 2011 • From 610 to 721 1. A Prophet Named Muhammad In Arabia, there isn’t much going on in the 6th century, until a 44-year-old merchant from Mecca named Muhammad starts preaching. He is thrown out of Mecca shortly thereafter and takes refuge in Yathrib, later called Medina, the second most important city on the Arabian Peninsula....
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Apr 11, 2011 • 721-1789 1. The Golden age In 721, the Muslims control a wide swath of land that runs from the Indus Valley to the Pyrenees Mountains. It is the start of a very culturally rich period all throughout the vast territory known as the Umayyad Caliphate. This is due in great part to uninterrupted exchanges between...
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Apr 10, 2011 • 1789 (1810) -1945 1. Bodings Damascus, February 1840. A Capuchin friar named Father Thomas mysteriously disappears in the mellah, the Jewish quarter. The French Consul, Count Ulysse de Ratti-Menton, accuses the Jews of killing him. The diplomat claims to know the motive behind the crime: he says the Jews needed Christian blood to make their...
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Mar 31, 2011 • 1945 – 2012 1. The Separation is Complete A war doesn’t just start overnight. It takes time to learn to see the other as an enemy. In late November 1947, that time has come, for both sides. When the UN announces the approval of a Palestine partition plan, Jews and Muslims become embroiled in a...
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Mar 31, 2011 • By its stake, this documentary series owes to reach the largest number of people. Which means going through the construction of a lively and attractive narration, which better highlights how fascinating and profoundly human this story is. A story that leads us to constantly reconsider the world we are living in. We will build the...
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Mar 15, 2011 • Zvi BEN-DOR BENITE lives in New York where he teaches History, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. In 2009, he published The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History, Oxford University Press (2009), in which he places the story of the lost tribes of Israël in the context of global history. For example,...
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Mar 14, 2011 • YOUSSEF MERI was born in Chicago to a Palestinian Muslim family. He’s Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations (Woolf Institute) and a fellowship of St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, UK. His research interests include the history of the Jews under Islam, medieval Islamic history, pilgrimage and the veneration of holy persons...
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Mar 12, 2011 • LUCETTE VALENSI Historian of Mediterranean Islam, and academic dean at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris. She studied pre-colonial Maghreb and the relations between Orient and the West. She is a world known specialist of the history of Jews of Tunisia. Islam en dissidence : Genèse d’un affrontement, Le Seuil, 2004, avec...
