Muslim Writers On Judaism And The Hebrew Bible

Author : Camilla Adang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004451216

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Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible by Camilla Adang Pdf

Muslim Writers on Judaism and the Hebrew Bible deals with the way in which Judaism and its holy scriptures were viewed by nine medieval Muslim writers representing different genres of Arabic literature: Ibn Rabban al-ṭabarī, Ibn Qutayba, al-Ya‘qūbī, Abū Ja‘far al-ṭabarī, al-Mas‘ūdī, al-Maqdisī, al-Bāqillānī, al-Bīrūnī and Ibn ḥazm. After an introductory chapter on the reception of Biblical materials in early Islam and a presentation of the authors under review, the book focuses on their knowledge of Judaism and the text of the Hebrew Bible, and subsequently discusses issues frequently debated between Muslims and Jews, namely, the claim that the Torah contains references to Muḥammad, and the assertion that the Torah has been both abrogated and falsified. In the appendix, texts by Ibn Qutayba and al-Maqdisī are offered for the first time in an English translation.

Author : Reuven Firestone
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881257206

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Children of Abraham by Reuven Firestone Pdf

This groundbreaking book, developed with a grant from the Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Institute for Interreligious Understanding of the American Jewish Committee, is a stepping stone to dialogue. Descended from a common ancestor, Jews and Muslims share a special relationship and practice religions that exhibit remarkable moral and theological resemblance. But most Muslims know little about Judaism. In his volume, Rabbi Firestone presents Judaism with a Muslim sensibility in mind, and thus establishes unprecedented intimacy between Jewish and Muslim consciousness and worldviews. His work is the first of its kind to offer a comprehensive introduction to Judaism with a special emphasis on issues of particular concern to Muslims. A publication of the Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Understanding of the American Jewish Committee.

Author : Meir M. Bar-Asher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691264790

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Jews and the Qur'an by Meir M. Bar-Asher Pdf

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.

Author : Vibeke Moe Bjørnbekk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111329413

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Narratives about Jews among Muslims in Norway by Vibeke Moe Bjørnbekk Pdf

Author : Yaron ; Knysh Eliav (Alexander ; Williams, Ralph),Yaron Eliav,Alexander D. Knysh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015073614599

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Judaism, Christianity, & Islam : a Sourcebook by Yaron ; Knysh Eliav (Alexander ; Williams, Ralph),Yaron Eliav,Alexander D. Knysh Pdf

Author : Dan Cohn-Sherbok,George Chryssides,Usama Hasan
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784503666

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People of the Book by Dan Cohn-Sherbok,George Chryssides,Usama Hasan Pdf

What is the role of scripture in illuminating the lives of the faithful today? In this book, three experts in Judaism, Christianity and Islam respectively discuss and debate this question, by exploring the core messages of the Torah, Bible and Qu'ran. Taking a deeper look at the wide range of theological, political and social issues that divide (and sometimes unite) their religions, they reveal how inspiration and guidance can be drawn not only on life's big questions such as sin and the afterlife, but also on societal issues including war, suffering, marriage and justice.

Author : Yaacov Shavit,Mordechai Eran
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110200935

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The Hebrew Bible Reborn by Yaacov Shavit,Mordechai Eran Pdf

This work, the first of its kind, describes all the aspects of the Bible revolution in Jewish history in the last two hundred years, as well as the emergence of the new biblical culture. It describes the circumstances and processes that turned Holy Scripture into the Book of Books and into the history of the biblical period and of the people – the Jewish people. It deals with the encounter of the Jews with modern biblical criticism and the archaeological research of the Ancient Near East and with contemporary archaeology. The middle section discusses the extensive involvement of educated Jews in the Bible-Babel polemic at the start of the twentieth century, which it treats as a typological event. The last section describes at length various aspects of the key status assigned to the Bible in the new Jewish culture in Europe, and particularly in modern Jewish Palestine, as a “guide to life” in education, culture and politics, as well as part of the attempt to create a new Jewish man, and as a source of inspiration for various creative arts.

Author : Jacques Waardenburg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110200959

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Muslims and Others by Jacques Waardenburg Pdf

Jacques Waardenburg writes about relations between Muslims and adherents of other religions. After illuminating various aspects of Islam from an outside point of view in his volume "Islam" (published in 2002 by de Gruyter) his second volume changes the perspective: The author shows how Muslims perceived non-Muslims - particularly Christianity and "the West", but also Judaism and Asian religions - in many centuries of religious dialogue and tensions. The main focus is on Muslim minorities in Western countries and on religious dialogues of which he provides first-hand knowledge through his participation in several important dialogue meetings. After 50 years of research and personal involvement, Waardenburg aims at a mutual understanding and reconciliation of Islam and other religions, particularly Christianity, both on an international level as well as on a more local level where "old" and "new", Christian and Muslim Europeans live together.

Author : Imam Warith-Deen Umar
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781453501597

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Judaiology by Imam Warith-Deen Umar Pdf

Imam Umar, Ranking Chaplin for New York’s prison system for 25 years, founded the National Association of Muslim Chaplains. In 1975 became one of the first two Muslims hired as full-time Imams in prisons in America. He helped build New York’s Imam’s council. Umar advocated the hiring and assignment of Muslim religious workers throughout the U.S. He traveled to Mecca, Egypt, South Africa, Senegal, Turkey, Cyprus, and Europe in his sojourn to study history, investigate world events first hand, and spread the teaching of Islam. He worked with rabbis, priests, ministers, and imams to improve the life of our time.

Author : Klaas Spronk,Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Bible
ISBN : 900434330X

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Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings by Klaas Spronk,Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman Pdf

Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings offers a new perspective on Judaism, Christianity and Islam as religions of the book by showing that there is an intricate web of relations between the texts of these three religious traditions.

Author : Reuven Firestone
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827610491

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An Introduction to Islam for Jews by Reuven Firestone Pdf

Helping Jews understand Islam--a reasoned and candid view

Author : A. Brill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137013187

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Judaism and World Religions by A. Brill Pdf

Provides the first extensive collection of traditional and academic Jewish approaches to the religions of the world, focusing on those Jewish thinkers that actually encounter the other world religions -that is, it moves beyond the theory of inclusive/exclusive/pluralistic categories and looks at Judaism's interactions with other faiths.

Author : Mordechai Z. Cohen,Adele Berlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107065680

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Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Mordechai Z. Cohen,Adele Berlin Pdf

B The ''letter'' / historical events - reassessments

Author : Imam Warith-Deen Umar
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781456818531

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Yahvehism by Imam Warith-Deen Umar Pdf

"Imam Umar's book "Judailogy" dares to go where few if any have gone before. It's well researched logic and argumentation should serve as a resource for much needed discussion in modern America where such dialogue is often suppressed or discouraged."

Author : Jacob Lassner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0226469131

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Demonizing the Queen of Sheba by Jacob Lassner Pdf

Over the centuries, Jewish and Muslim writers transformed the biblical Queen of Sheba from a clever, politically astute sovereign to a demonic force threatening the boundaries of gender. In this book, Jacob Lassner shows how successive retellings of the biblical story reveal anxieties about gender and illuminate the processes of cultural transmission. The Bible presents the Queen of Sheba's encounter with King Solomon as a diplomatic mission: the queen comes "to test him with hard questions," all of which he answers to her satisfaction; she then praises him and, after an exchange of gifts, returns to her own land. By the Middle Ages, Lassner demonstrates, the focus of the queen's visit had shifted from international to sexual politics. The queen was now portrayed as acting in open defiance of nature's equilibrium and God's design. In these retellings, the authors humbled the queen and thereby restored the world to its proper condition. Lassner also examines the Islamization of Jewish themes, using the dramatic accounts of Solomon and his female antagonist as a test case of how Jewish lore penetrated the literary imagination of Muslims. Demonizing the Queen of Sheba thus addresses not only specialists in Jewish and Islamic studies, but also those concerned with issues of cultural transmission and the role of gender in history.