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Jews of a Saharan Oasis: Elimination of the Tamantit Community
Academic journal article from The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 39, No. 3
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Jews of a Saharan Oasis: Elimination of the Tamantit Community. By John Hunwick. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener, 2006. Pp. viii, 91; 1 illustration. $68.95 cloth, $28.95 paper.
An oft-invoked myth, current in academic circles as elsewhere, is that of the preZionist "Golden Era" between Muslims and Jews. According to this revisionist paradigm, until the emergence of the colonial and settler proto-Israeli state in Palestine, Jews and Muslims lived in harmony, if not fraternal solidarity, throughout the Islamic world. Jews were a protected and respected minority, a "people of the Book" as the Koran describes them, under beneficent Muslim tutelage. And they prospered. It was only the …
