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Jews In Islamic Lands

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The study of Jews in Islamic lands examines the historical, cultural, and social experiences of Jewish communities living under Islamic rule from the rise of Islam in the 7th century to the modern era, focusing on their interactions with Muslim societies, contributions to culture, and the dynamics of coexistence and conflict.
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The study of Jews in Islamic lands examines the historical, cultural, and social experiences of Jewish communities living under Islamic rule from the rise of Islam in the 7th century to the modern era, focusing on their interactions with Muslim societies, contributions to culture, and the dynamics of coexistence and conflict.
This paper discusses the Qurʾānic verses about the Jews and the people of Israel in terms of the naming and the content. Key questions to be addressed are: What is the purpose of the frequent mention of the people of Israel in the Qurʾān?... more
O objetivo deste estudo é refletir sobre as relações do Cristianismo norte africano com a alteridade judaica. Uma reflexão sobre a mudança de posição de uma religião inicialmente discriminada e perseguida (outsider) pelos poderes... more
My PhD thesis on the Jews and Assyrians of Kurdistan, A Comparative Study in Survival (the Hebrew University, 2003)  was translated by the Institute for Academic Research in Beirut.
The Yemen, is the birth place and hub for a number of monotheistic religious convictions . In its North West region, just 243 kilometers away from San'aa, the official capital of the Republic of Yemen , lies a spiritual center, a holy... more
The term “Moor”and its variants have long been used throughout Europe as synonyms for Nigri or Negro and to denote various black-skinned and nearly black peoples. In the last century or so, it has been presumed that ancient “Moorish”... more
The issue of the presence of non-Muslims in positions of political power in al-Andalus over the ṭāʾifa period is narrowly associated with the case of the Banū Naghrīla in Zīrid Granada. These two Jewish viziers represent the only instance... more
[English abstract after the French] Apprenons quelques mots de turc: un glossaire arabo-turc de la Genizah du Caire Cet article traite d'un carnet de comptes en judéo-arabe qui a probablement appartenu à un agent consulaire en Egypte Au... more
Offered at Cornell University, Spring 2018. COURSE DESCRIPTION In the media we read about conflict in Iraq between Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds; strife between Muslims and Copts in Egypt; rebellion in Syria against the ruling Alawite... more
גרשם שלום -- תולדות התנועה השבתאית // History of the Sabbatian Movement was the first attempt by one of the giants of scholarship on Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), to present a comprehensive picture of Sabbatianism as a... more
Based on research in about fifty archives worldwide, Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust analyzes the minority politic of the Turkish republic and the country’s ambivalent policies regarding Jewish refugees and Turkish Jews living abroad.... more
This paper traces some of the major approaches to
dealing with such problematic cases expressed by Sephardic poskim from the Rambam until contemporary authorities.
My sincere thanks to Edgar Xavier (https://independent.academia.edu/EdgarXavier2) for kindly pointing out some errors of fact in this paper. On page 70, the Herald is incorrectly identified as an Indonesian Catholic newspaper. The... more
Edición, traducción, estudio de los contenidos y análisis lingüístico de una carta literaria conservada en el manuscrito Ebr-Arb I 4575 de la colección Firkovich. Su autor parece mantener una estrecha relación con el destinatario, quizá... more
Kfar Giladi - An Unknown Gate to the Illegal Immigration The Illegal Immigration From the northern border to the Land of Israel in 1919-1946 By Drora Hayek Mentor: Prof. Yossi Ben-Artzi, University of Haifa The book deals with the... more
Islamic sources indicate that Muslims often sought to distance themselves from the practices of Jews (as well as Christians and Zoroastrians). One method used to differentiate Islam from other religions was mukhālafa, doing the opposite... more
This article argues for a significant revision in the understanding of Jews in late-Ottoman Palestine: from a model of a singular community (the yishuv) to a model of multiple communities, embedded within local, regional and global... more
In the following article we will examine at length some of the dynamics by which R. Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad—the renowned Ben Ish Hai (1834–1909) - integrated Kabbalah into daily life, and the complex way that he combined the teachings... more
Seminar Communities, Churches and Conversion: Christians in the Medieval Islamic World, Centre for the Study of Islam Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, Wednesday 24th March 2021
This article aims to explore the extant sources documenting the emergence of organised football in Ottoman Macedonia – mainly newspaper articles and notes by local chroniclers. In Ottoman Macedonia, football was mainly played in Salonica... more
This essay challenges the still prevalent historiographical trope of the decline of the Jewish communities under Muslim rule in the later Middle Ages. The essay critiques the ideological underpinnings of this notion of decline and then... more
The main Jewish tribes of Yathrib/Medina, 1 the Naq.lr and Quray~a, were "kings" operating under the Sassanians roughly to the middle of the 6th century C.E. At a later stage, more precisely in the last quarter of the 6th century, there... more
Jews living in the Islamic world during the medieval period had access to a great variety of languages and frequently used several, depending upon the social, cultural, religious, or economic context in which they operated at any given... more
The book is a voluminous study (330 pages) that follows the history of the presence and life of Jews and Jewish tribes in pre-Islamic Arabia in the 5th, 6th and 7th centuries, the appearance and teachings of Hazreti Muhammad, and his... more
This paper presents and analyses half a page of Uzbek text that appears in a Tajik-language prose work published at the turn of the 20th century. The Uzbek text was written by a Bukharan bilingual who had Bukharan Tajik as his native... more
This essay offers a practical guide to the major collections and editions of Geniza documents as well as to some of the resources available for their study.
İslamiyetin doğuşuyla beraber başta ayetler ve daha sonra hadislerde geçmiş ile günü kıyaslamak, anlamlandırmak ve birtakım kaideler ihdas etmek için “biz” ve “öteki” kavramları ortaya çıkmıştır. Çünkü bir dinin veya bir inanç grubunun... more
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