Language:
French
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Minorités religieuses dans l'Espagne médiévale
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1992) 81-89
Keywords:
Ibn Ḥazm, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad,
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Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Islam
;
Islam Relations
;
Judaism
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Islam Relations Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Judaism
Abstract:
Discusses the refutation by Ibn Hazm (d. 1064) from Andalusia of a work written by an anonymous Jew (identified later as Samuel ha-Nagid) which shows contradictions and the inconsistency of the Qur'an. Ibn Hazm counterattacks by criticizing not only the contradictions of the Torah, but the influence and power of the Jews in Andalusia. Discusses the problem of identification of a Jewish author (a recent hypothesis by G. Stroumsa says that a work written by a Jew could have been invented by Ibn Hazm to justify attacking the Jews) and sources used in the polemics opposing Ibn Hazm and his interlocutor. Concludes, however, that the arguments used by the Jew match arguments used by Muslims themselves, but are also compatible with the intellectual atmosphere in Andalusia in the 11th century. States that participation of a Jew in such a religious dispute was possible in this period and disagrees with Stroumsa's theory that the work against the Qur'an was invented by Ibn Hazm.
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