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Jews and the Qur'an
Meir M. Bar-Asher, Ethan Rundell
- 176 pages
- English
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Jews and the Qur'an
Meir M. Bar-Asher, Ethan Rundell
About This Book
A compelling book that casts the Qur'anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new light In this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur'an and later Islamic literature, providing needed context to those passages critical of Jews that are most often invoked to divide Muslims and Jews or to promote Islamophobia. He traces the Qur'anic origins of the protection of Jews and other minorities living under the rule of Islam, and shows how attitudes toward Jews in Shi'i Islam are substantially different from those in Sunni Islam. Bar-Asher sheds light on the extraordinary contribution of Jewish tradition to the Muslim exegesis of the Qur'an, and draws important parallels between Jewish religious law, or halakha, and shari'a law.An illuminating work on a topic of vital relevance today, Jews and the Qur'an offers a nuanced understanding of Islam's engagement with Judaism in the time of Muhammad and his followers, and serves as a needed corrective to common misperceptions about Islam.
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- âAbd Allah, 131, 148n42
- âAbd al-Rahman b. Ghanm, 113, 115
- Abitbol, Michel, Le PassĂ© dâune discorde, 119
- Abraham: and adoption of monotheism, 67â69; hajj and, 98; and the Kaâba in Mecca, 69â70; in the Qurâan, 2, 30, 60, 61, 65â70
- Abu Bakr, 135
- Abu Rayáž„an al-Biruni, 107
- al-Aáž„bar, Kaâb, 21, 138
- Akil al-murar, កujr, 10
- âAli b. Abi Talib, as successor to the Prophet, 135
- âAli b. Ibrahim al-Qummi, 35
- almsgiving, obligation of, 88
- Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali, 136
- antisemitism, xiii, xv
- Arabic, geo-linguistic sources of, 23
- Arab Jewish poets, 20â22
- Arberry, Arthur, 111
- âAshura, fast of, 98â99
- âAáčŁmaâ (poet), 21
- al-âAyyashi, Muhammad b. Masâud, 134
- Babylonian Talmud and Talmudic literature: comparisons between the red cow and the heifer, 85; completion of Talmud, 143n14; on Davidâs innocence, 79; on dietary prohibitions, 103; influence on the Qurâan, 61; influences on Babylonian Talmud, 128â29; and interpretation of the law, 91; in the interpretation of the Qurâan, 19; Joseph in, 72, 73; parallels with Qurâanic verses, 36â37; racism in, 144n3; on substitution Passover, 101
- banu Israâil. See children of Israel
- al-Baqir, Muhammad, 124, 130â31
- Bat Yeâor, 119
- Becker, Carl Heinrich, 93
- Benjamin of Tudela, 17â18, 26
- Ben-Shammai, Haggai, 33â34; âJew- Hatred in the Islamic Tradition and the Koranic Exegesis,â 55
- Bernard, Dominique, Les disciples juifs de JĂ©sus du 1er siĂšcle Ă Mahomet, xvi
- Bible: and killing of the prophets, 51; Qurâanâs complex attitude toward, 4; Qurâanâs references to, 29; rebuke of the Jews in, 56â57; and terminology in the Qurâan, 59â60
- biblical accounts and post-biblical literature: Abraham, 2, 29, 30, 65â70, 98; Cain and Abel, 62, 63â65; characteristics of Qurâanâs inclusion of, 58, 60â62, 78, 85; David, 2, 75â79, 80, 82, 83; Genesis, 60â63, 70; Joseph, 62, 70â75, 87; the red heifer, 83â85; Saul/Talut, 60, 80â83
- BlachĂšre, RĂ©gis, 44, 81
- Book of Jubilees, 68
- Boyce, Mary, 130
- Brunschvig, Robert, âHermĂ©neutique normative dans le judaĂŻsme et dans lâislam,â 90...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Mustafa Akyol
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. The Historical Context
- II. The Representation of Judaism and Jews in the Qurâan
- III. Biblical Accounts and Their Transformations in the Qurâan
- IV. Qurâanic Law and Jewish Law
- V. The Qurâanic Sources of the Dhimma
- VI. The Place of Judaism and the Jews in Twelver Shiâism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index