Neighboring Faiths

Essays on how Jews, Muslims, and Christians have coexisted—or not—over the centuries, from “a particularly incisive and trustworthy historian of religion” ( Commonweal ). Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths , David Nirenberg examines how Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived with and thought about each other during