Jews and the Qur'anAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 20 August 2024
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A compelling book that casts the Quranic encounter with Jews in an entirely new lightIn this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Quran and later Islamic literature, providing needed context to those passages critical of Jews that are most often invoked to divide Muslims and Jews or to promote Islamophobia. He traces the Quranic origins of the protection of Jews and other minorities living under the rule of Islam, and shows how attitudes toward Jews in Shi`i Islam are substantially different from those in Sunni Islam. Bar-Asher sheds light on the extraordinary contribution of Jewish tradition to the Muslim exegesis of the Quran, and draws important parallels between Jewish religious law, or halakha, and shari`a law. An illuminating work on a topic of vital relevance today, Jews and the Quran offers a nuanced understanding of Islams engagement with Judaism in the time of Muhammad and his followers, and serves as a needed corrective to common misperceptions about Islam.
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