Israel Oriental Studies, Volume 17: Dhimmis and Others: Jews and Christians and the World of Classical Islam - Hardcoverby Uri Rubin (Editor), David J. Wasserstein (Editor) Islam has always had ambivalent relations with Judaism and Christianity, as also with Jews and Christians. The awkwardness of their character has been accentuated by the creation and perpetuation, on all sides, of partial and ill intentioned images during the middle ages and by political developments in the modern period. Since the beginning of serious modern study of Islam in the west, these