Language:
English
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
Revue des Etudes Juives
Angaben zur Quelle:
177,1-2 (2018) 23-36
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Judaism Relations
;
Islam
;
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Spanish literature Jewish authors
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History and criticism
;
Arabs in literature
;
Ammon (Kingdom)
;
Moab (Kingdom)
Abstract:
Jewish sources commonly refer to Muslims as 'Ishmaelites' and to Islamdom as 'the Kingdom of Ishmael' due to an alleged biblical genealogy that both Jews and Muslims accept. Other classic Jewish sources, however, associate pre-Islamic Arabs as well as Muslims with two other biblical nations, Ammon and Moab, even when, and even though, the 'standard' appellations are at hand. The Ammon and Moab nexus is mentioned in academic literature but without much elaboration. This article investigates several Jewish mentions of the nexus — most of Hispano-Jewish provenance — and proposes five explanations for its use.
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