Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Judaism; a Journal of Jewish Life & Thought
Angaben zur Quelle:
39,4 (1990) 494-507
Keywords:
Islam Relations
;
Judaism
;
Antisemitism
;
Jewish-Arab relations
;
Islam Theology
Abstract:
Discusses the origins of Muslim anti-Jewish sentiment. Islam refashioned the biblical Jewish past and claimed revelation in a direct tradition from Moses to Muhammad. The "Isra'ilyat" (popular tales from the Bible with Muslim interpretations), the failure of the Jews in Medina to accept Muhammad as the legitimate prophet of his time and their support of his enemies, and a revisionist historical outlook in which the past was always made to fit the ideals and circumstances of Muhammad and his age, engendered a highly negative view of the Jew which was accepted by successive generations of Muslims. Notes that modern attempts to distinguish between the Jews as a religious community and other forms of Jewish communal and political associations, such as Israel and Zionism, are without historical precedent.
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