Divergence of Judaism and Islam

Laissez passer, 175
Land of Canaan, 233, 235
Language: ῾Apiru, 233, 237; Bukharan 
Jews, 11, 211–13; Egyptian, 237; 
Hebrew, 168, 194, 236–37; Jews, 237; 
Libyan Jews, 193, 195; Yiddish, 213
“The Last Night” (Yehoshua), 271, 275
A Late Divorce (Yehoshua), 275
Lavie, Chaim, 290, 292, 297, 300
Law of Protection of the Nation, 65–66
Layard, Henry, 54
Lebanon: Israel invasion of 1982, 310–12; 
Muslims, 9, 99

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Legionaries, 65
Levy, Avigdor, 5, 17–25
Lewis, Bernard, 107–8
The Liberated Bride (Yehoshua), 271, 273, 
276–80, 282–83
Libeskind, Daniel, 78
Libya, 9–10; anti-Semitism, 188–89; Arab-
Israeli conflict and, 186–87, 306–22; 
Arab nationalism, 174, 195; enfant 
terrible image, 322; Independence Day, 
189; Israel boycott, 191; Jewish Agency 
in, 181, 189; Jewish-Muslim relations, 
173–95; Lockerbie sanctions, 307, 
312–14, 323; non-Muslims, 192; oil rev-
enues, 316; as pariah state, 314; “Radio 
of Vengeance and Sacred Hate,” 311; 
Red Fezes, 176, 178, 186; Revolutionary 
Committees, 319–20; 2011 rebellion, 
323; U.S. and, 13, 307–8, 311, 317; Zion-
ism, 184, 186, 306–22
Libyan Jews: administration and judiciary, 
175–76; under BMA, 176–77; citizen-
ship, 177, 195; culture of, 192–94; 
discrimination against, 175; economy, 
189–91; education, 193–94; flags of, 188; 
Hebrew studies, 194; Israel migration, 
181, 189, 191; under Italian racism, 
175–76, 185; kidnapping of, 180; laissez 
passer, 175; language, 193, 195; legal 
status, 174–75; Libyan Muslims riots 
against, 178–80, 182; modus vivendi, 177–
78; in Ottoman army, 183; overview, 
173–74; patriotism, 188; pilgrimages, 
192, 313; politics of, 184–89; property 
of, 190–91; publications, 194; religious 
practice, 192; religious studies, 187, 193; 
robbing and murder of, 190; Sabbath 
and, 192; security, 177–84; self-defense 
by, 182–84; synagogues, 177, 180, 193; 
Young Turks and, 185; Zionism, 195. See 
also Ottoman Jews
Libyan Muslims: BMA and, 173, 186; 
economy, 190; isolation, 185; land 
and building control, 192; as majority, 
174–75; overview, 173–74; pilgrimages, 
192, 313; political exiles, 173; publica-
tions, 194; religious practice, 192; riots 
against Libyan Jews, 178–80, 182
“Lies of Zionist Historiography,” 228
Life of the tribe, 271
Life on the brink principle, 272
Lippmann, Walter, 98
Literature and Arab Nationalism (al-
Ḥusseini), 266
Living in Harmony grants, 113–15, 117
Lockerbie sanctions, 307, 312–14, 323. See 
also Pan-Am flight 103
Logical fatality, 271
The Lover (Yehoshua), 271, 273–74, 277
Maarif-i Umumiye Nizamnamesi, 21
Ma῾ase Yerushalami, 283, 287n51
Mabkhut, Shaykh Nasir, 127–28
Maghreb, 3–4
Magical beliefs, of Yemeni Muslims, 
136–37
Mahallah, 203, 216
Mahdi, 133
Mahumud II, 19
Maissy-Noy, Rachel, 11–12, 227–50
MAL. See Military Administration Liras
Malaysia, 301
Malmuks, 241–42
Mandel, Arnold, 168
Manning, Peter, 103
Maqaryus, Shahin, 248
Markets. See Suqs
Markus, Andrew, 103
Al-Masiri, ῾Abd al-Wahab, 228
Masliyah, Nissim, 25
Matan, A., 155
Mauritania, 315–16
Mecca, 312–13, 315; founding, 316
Media: Australia Muslims and, 103; 
Bukharan Jews portrayal, 205–8, 221
Mellahs, 149–50, 154
Memoirs of a Hen (al-Ḥusseini, Isḥāq 
Mūsā), 12; Arab readers, 257; critical 
perspective, 257–61; as cultural docu-
ment, 257; debate over, 265; feminist 
aspect, 266; here and now, 260–61; over-
view, 254–57; as parable of Arab-Israeli 
conflict, 255; road taken, 263–67; suit-
able interpretive grid, 261–62; utopian 
nature, 257, 260