Your opportunity to dedicate an upcoming JPS title in honor of or in the memory of friends or family. If the reserve price is not met, the highest bidder will have the opportunity to share in the dedication of this title.

Jews' and Muslims' knowledge and understanding of the other is dismally poor. Introduction to Islam for Jews, a book about Islam written expressly for Jews, remedies part of the problem. It treats important Jewish issues with candor and integrity, and it is written with language, symbols, and ideas that make sense to Jews. Some of the issues treated include the image of the Jew in the Qur'an and in Islamic tradition and interpretation; the depiction and use of "biblical" figures and images in the Qur'an; an analysis of the famous and problematic Islamic portrayals of Muhammad's relationship with the Jews and its breakdown; the many similarities and profound differences between Judaism and Islam; the meaning of Jihad and the range of its interpretation in history; the role of Jews in the Conquest; the legal and religious position of Jews in the world of Islam; a careful and reasoned investigation of the so-called Golden Age of Jewish life under Islamic rule; the various expressions of Islam (Sunni, Shi`a, Sufi, Salafi, etc.) and their view of Jews; the general position of Jews in Islam in relation to the position of other non-Muslims; the range of Muslim views on the Jewish State of Israel in the contemporary Islamic world; and more.