If you want some books on Jews in the Islamic world, you could start with Mark Mazower's Salonika: City of Ghosts about the Jewish-plurality city of Salonica(modern Thessaloniki) in Ottoman Greece, which also covers the period when the Ottoman Empire was the world's leading center of Jewish life and culture. You could also combine this with a book like Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire by Suraiya Faroqhi to give him a taste of Ottoman social history beyond "The battles they fought". If he likes historical fiction, My Name is Red is a very well-researched murder mystery set in the Ottoman Empire that is a very good read as well.

Beyond the Ottoman Empire, there are a lot of very good books that discuss late antique and medieval Islam beyond the political sphere to encompass daily life, artistic production, literature, inter-religious relations, and so on. A good history of Islamic art might be of some interest to him-Hillenbrand's one-volume Thames and Hudson book on Islamic Art is short and readable if a bit skimpy in places. I'm not as familiar with the literature on Jews in the Islamic world specifically beyond the fact that it is a mind-bogglingly enormous field of study; I am tempted to recommend Shlomo Dov Gotein's A Mediterranean Society (a history of the Jewish community of medieval Cairo drawn from its de facto communal archive in the Cairo Genizah) but it is a somewhat older book and absolutely massive.

The Quran does endorse Zionism and there are Muslim scholars who keep pointing that out but naturally they are shouted down as traitors because antisemitism is indeed very popular in the Islamic world public. Matthias Küntzel wrote an interesting book which pinned how Muslim antisemitism, i.e. the kind of stuff you see in the party programme of the Hamas, with it's fixation on bits of the Surat al-Baqara thorn out of the original context combined with bizarre stuff picked up from the protocols of the elders of zion, has originally been taken directly from the Nazi German "Radio Zeesen", which had a editorial board of 80 people and was holding channels in several dialects of the Arabic language as well as in Turkish, Farsi and Urdu. Along with hatespeech they featured music and comedy. The transmitters were distributed for free for the cafés and hookah bars across the middle east. I do not know if the books of Küntzel are available in other languages than German but a quick google search reveals there already is some English language literature devoted to that page of middle eastern history. The upside of Künzel is that he gives you a side by side comparisons of the Radio Zeesen transmissions and, for instance, speeches given by the Muslim brotherhood.