1st Edition

Medieval and Modern Perspectives on Muslim-Jewish Relations

By Ronald L. Nettler Copyright 1995

    First Published in 1995. The life of Jews in medieval Baghdad or 18th-century Tunis may now be considered to be important as Jewish life in 13th-century Worms or 19th-century Poland. Islamic theological and exegetical writing on Judaism may now command as much interest as their counterparts in Christian literature, while the rich Islamic-Jewish cultural interchange over many centuries is clearly of great significance. Studies in Muslim-Jewish Relations will be a series of general volumes each including a wide range of subjects, periodic edited volumes each focusing on a certain theme, and a planned related monograph series which will publish authored volumes on more specialized aspects of the field. This volume is a collection of twelve essays.

    Chapter 1 Ibn Ḥazm's Criticism of Some “Judaizing” Tendencies among the Mâlikites, CAMILLA ADANG; Chapter 2 Jews and Arabs in Israel: The Cultural Convergence of Divergent Identities, ELIEZER BEN-RAFAEL, HEZI BROSH; Chapter 3 A Case-Study in Contemporary Political Islam and the Palestine Question: The Perspective of Ḥizb Al-Taḥrīr Al-Islāmī, SUHA TAJI-FAROUKI; Chapter 4 Jewish Sources for the History of Morocco, YEHOSHUA FRENKEL; Chapter 5 Can Muslim Narrative Be Used as Commentary on Jewish Tradition?, DAVID J. HALPERIN; Chapter 6 Sebeos, the Jews and the Rise of Islam, ROBERT HOYLAND; Chapter 7 Maimonides' View of Circumcision as a Factor Uniting the Jewish and Muslim Communities, HANNAH KASHER; Chapter 8 ::, PHILIP KENNEDY; Chapter 9 Rabbi Elijah Ha-Kohen’s Scroll of the Fawn: An Allegorical Maqama from Spain, ZVI MALACHI; Chapter 10 ::, JOSEPH NEVO; Chapter 11 A Post-Colonial Encounter of Traditions: Muhammad Sa‘īd Al-‘Ashmāwī on Islam and Judaism, RONALD L. NETTLER; Chapter 12 Avicenna and Maimonides on Immortality: A Comparative Study, DOV SCHWARTZ;

    Biography

    Ronald L. Nettler