Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1999) 143-159
Keywords:
Ibn Qutaybah, Abd Allah ibn Muslim,
;
Ṭabarī, ʻAlī ibn Sahl Rabbān,
;
Ṭabarī,
;
Maqdisī, Muṭahhar ibn Ṭāhir,
;
Ibn Ḥazm, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad,
;
Bible Islamic interpretations
;
Islam Relations To 1500
;
Judaism
;
Polemics
Abstract:
Islamic polemics against Judaism and its adherents is a phenomenon as old as Islam itself, and the Qurʾān is its very first source. In it, we find, among others, the following arguments: the Jews are hostile toward the Muslims; the cumbersome Jewish laws are a punishment from God; the Jews are extremely attached to earthly life; and they display an excessive reverence for their leaders, thus compromising their monotheism.¹More numerous and important, however, are the arguments that concern the very foundation of the Jewish faith, namely, the Torah.² According to the Qurʾān, this earlier scripture, which must be considered...
Note:
Another version appeared in "Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible; Texts and Studies" (2019) 15-38.
DOI:
10.2307/j.ctvd1c9ww.5
URL:
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