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  "path": "/history/166564-jews-arabs-shared-history-coexistence-before-modern-conflict/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-28T14:10:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://english.pravda.ru",
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  "textContent": "If you ask a modern person how relations between Jews and Arabs historically developed, they will most likely paint a picture of endless hostility stretching back through the centuries. And that will be one of the greatest historical illusions of our time.\nImagine the year 1038. The Emirate of Granada, Muslim Spain. The army of a powerful Arab state is commanded by a brilliant general who leads Muslim soldiers into battle, wins victories, and rules the state with an iron hand as vizier. This man is Shmuel ha-Nagid (Samuel ibn Nagrila) — an Orthodox rabbi, leader of the Jewish community, and an outstanding Jewish poet.\nA Jewish rabbi at the head of an army of the Arab Caliphate. For a 21st-century observer, this sounds like alternative fiction or a glitch in the matrix. But before British colonialism, barbed wire, and the concept of nation-states appeared in the Middle East in the 20th century, such biographies were the norm.",
  "title": "Jews and Arabs: The Lost History of Coexistence Before Modern Conflict"
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