ISBN-10: 1591025540
ISBN-13: 9781591025542
This complete, meticulously documented choice of scholarly articles provides undeniable facts with no trouble discernible, uniquely Islamic antisemitism-a particular Muslim hatred of Jews-has been expressed always because the introduction of Islam. Debunking the traditional knowledge, which maintains to claim that Muslim animosity towards Jews is totally a 20th-century phenomenon fueled ordinarily by means of the protracted Arab-Israeli clash, major students supply instance after instance of antisemitic motifs in Muslim files achieving again to the beginnings of Islam. The participants express that the Koran itself is an important resource of hostility towards Jews, in addition to different foundational Muslim texts together with the hadith (the phrases and deeds of Muhammad as recorded through pious Muslim transmitters) and the sira (the earliest Muslim biographies of Muhammad). Many different examples are adduced within the writings of influential Muslim jurists, theologians, and students, from the center a while in the course of the modern period. those basic assets, and seminal secondary analyses translated right here for the 1st time into English - akin to Hartwig Hirschfeld's mid-1880s essays on Muhammad's subjugation of the Jews of Medina and George Vajda's stylish, finished 1937 learn of the hadith - aspect the sacralized motive for Islam's anti-Jewish bigotry. a variety of complementary ancient money owed illustrate the ensuing plight of Jewish groups within the Muslim international throughout house and time, culminating within the genocidal possibility posed to the Jews of Israel this present day.
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So 'Abdallah called on a group of the Ansilr to whom he explained his predicament. They said, 'None shall be sent to confirm your statement but the very youngest among us'. They sent Abü Sa'ïd ·to 'Umar with 'Abdallah to confirm what he bad alleged. 'Umar said, '1 didn't know the Prophet had given that particular arder. '52 This report is characteristic of the I:Iadith, in that it alludes to a parallel report without knowledge of whose fuller text it would be difficult to appreciate the point of the story.
So bleak seemed the prospect that he encouraged a group of his followers to set sail and seek refuge in the neighbouring Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia, in the hope that there they might find the freedom to live in peace and to worship God undisturbed by daily insult and prejudice. The final blow that almost drained Muhammad of hope and which heralded the end of his Makkan mission was the near-simultaneous 4 THE MISSION OF THE PROPRET deaths of his uncle, the chief of the clan under whose protection he bad hitherto been safe, and of his wife.
Ln the recension in our bands today, the texts have not been organised in the chronological order of their delivery. But, insofar as his relations with the Jews are concemed, this is compensated for in that many of the passages are addressed directly to 'the sons of Israel', orto 'the People of the Book'. From such sections, a graduai transition may be detected from a feeling of warm relatedness, through a growing impatience with carping criticism, to a devastating series of angry denunciations culminating in the brilliantly simple and telling solution to the embarrassing conundrum that those to whom appeal had so often been made for confirmation of the reality of prophethood proved the most stubbom in not recognising the reality of Mubammad's Prophethood.
The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History
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