Cross Cultural Solidarity

History; in the Service of Solidarity

Examples of Jewish/Muslim Solidarity in World History

Image: from The Forgotten Stories of Muslims Who Saved Jewish People During the Holocaust.

Books

Thomas Block: Shalom/Salaam: A Story of a Mystical Fraternity.

Michelle Campos: Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine.

Stephan Conermann: Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Middle Islamic Period.

Yafia Katherine Randall: Sufism and Jewish-Muslim Relations: The Derekh Avraham Order in Israel.

Abdelwahab Meddeb and Benjamin Stora: A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day.

Elisha Russ-Fishbane: Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt: A Study of Abraham Maimonides and His Times.

Bernard Lewis: The Jews of Islam.

Netanel Miles-Yépez: The Merging of Two Oceans: Nine Talks on Sufism and Hasidism.

M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen: Islam, Jerusalem, and World Peace: Explanations of a Sufi.

Documentaries

Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story.

Muslim Solidarity with Jews During WWII & the Holocaust 

Besa: A Code of Honor. Muslim Albanians Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust.

Susan Cahill: Benghabrit: The Muslim Rector who saved Jews from the Gestapo.

Juan Cole: Remembering the Muslim Troops who Fought the Axis.

Richard Hurowitz: Sultan Mohammed V protected the Jews of Casablanca.

Melissa Chan: The Forgotten Stories of Muslims Who Saved Jewish People During the Holocaust.

Michael Wolfe: Meet the Muslims who sacrificed themselves to save Jews and fight Nazis in World War II.

Additional Articles

Peter Adamson: When philosophy needed Muslims, Jews and Christians alike.

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

Rabbi Allen S. Maller: The Constitution of Medinah and Mideast Peace.

Tom Pessah: When the Sultan took in Jewish refugees: Bayezid II, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, saved my family’s life during the Spanish Inquisition. The Israeli government could learn a thing or two from him.

Iftikhar Salahuddin: Jews Under Muslim Rule.

Contemporary Jewish/Muslim Solidarity

Cross Cultural Solidarity: Contemporary Jewish/Muslim Solidarity resource collection.