Persecution or Prosperity？ Jews under Islam

For over a thousand years, Jews lived not in the shadows of the Muslim world — but at the top of it. Bankers to empires. Doctors to Sultans. Soem of the wealthiest and most influential family dynasties in the Islamic world. This is the story Zionist propaganda has buried — a millennium of Jewish prosperity, cultural flourishing, and statecraft inside the Islamic world.

Sources:

Mark Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 1994)

Avigdor Levy, The Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire (Darwin Press, 1992)

Stanford Shaw, The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic (NYU Press, 1991)

Esther Benbassa & Aron Rodrigue, Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th–20th Centuries (UC Press, 2000)

Joseph Nehama, Histoire des Israélites de Salonique (on the Jewish community of Salonica)

Voltaire, Treatise on Tolerance (1763)

Isaac Sarfati letter (1454), reproduced in various Ottoman Jewish history compilations

Cecil Roth, The History of the Jews of Italy and general Sephardic diaspora scholarship

Camondo family archive / The Camondos by Leora Auslander (University of Chicago Press, 2021)

Ottoman census and demographic records (various, cited in Shaw above)