The Convergence of Judaism and Islam. Religious, Scientific, and Cultural Dimensions

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1966), 557 (tradition 1598); Hartwig Hirschfeld, New Researches into the Composition and
Exegesis of the Qoran (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1902), 22, 23; John Wansbrough,
Quranic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation (Oxford: Oxford Uni-
versity Press, 1977), 64–65; Gerald Richard Hawting, “The Disappearance and Rediscov-
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“Finality of Prophethood in Sunni Islam,” JSAI 7 (1986): 177–215.



  1. Quran, Al ̔Imran, 3:19 “The true religion with God is Islam. Those who were given
    the Book were not at variance except after the knowledge came to them, being insolent
    one to another.”

  2. Julian Obermann, “Political Theology in Early Islam: Hasan al-Basri’s Treatise on
    Qadar,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 55 (1935): 138–62; Frank Griffel, “Tolera-
    tion and Exclusion: Al-Shafi ̔i and al-Ghazali on the Treatment of Apostates,” Bulletin of
    the School of Oriental and African Studies 64 (2001): 339–50; Steven Wasserstrom, “Mu-
    tual Acknowledgments: Modes of Recognition between Muslim and Jew,” in Islam and
    Judaism: 1,400 Years of Shared Values, ed. Steven Wasserstrom (Portland: Institute for
    Judaic Studies, 1994), 64–65; G. D. Newby, A History of the Jews of Arabia from Ancient
    Times to Their Eclipse under Islam (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988),
    14–17.

  3. Abu al-Hasan ̔Ali al-Mas ̔udi (d. c. 345/956), Kitab al-tanbih wal-ishraf, ed. M.
    J. De Goeje (Leiden: Brill, 1893); Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum 8:112–14; al-
    Mutahhar ibn Tahir al-Maqdisi (fl. 966), al-bad’ wal-ta’rikh, ed. and trans. Houart (Paris,
    1899–1919), 4:34–41.

  4. This is reflected even in popular literature. In the story of the hunchback, his
    corpse is transferred from the house where he has died to the house of a Jewish physi-
    cian, then to the house of a Muslim neighbor, and ends up in the home of a Chris-
    tian tradesman, who is portrayed as a drunkard. As the Jew, who is depicted as greedy,
    tramples on the dead body, he cries out: “O Ezra (Uzayr), O Moses, O Aaron, O Jushua
    son of Nun.” Alf Layla wa-Layla from the Earliest Known Sources, ed. Muhsin Mahdi
    (Leiden: Brill, 1995), 283, 284, 285; Tausend und Eine Nacht Arabisch (nights 104–106), ed.
    Maximilian Habicht (Breslau, 1825), 2:125–29; Alf Layla wa-Layla, ed. Bulaq (Cairo, 1252),
    1:74–75; H. Haddawy, trans., The Arabian Nights (New York: Norton, 1990), 1:208–11.

  5. Sh. Pines, “A Note on an Early Meaning of the Term Mutakallim,” Israel Oriental
    Studies 1 (1971): 224–40.

  6. G. Newby, The Making of the Last Prophet: A Reconstruction of the Earliest Bi-
    ography of Muhammad (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1999), 10–11; Steven
    Wasserstrom, Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam
    (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 180–81

  7. ̔Umar’s stipulations (al-shurut al- ̔umariyya) can be traced not only in the chron-
    icles but also in Islamic law manuals. Abu Bakr Muhammad b. al-Walid al-Turtushi
    (451–520/1160–1126), Siraj al-muluk, ed. M. F. Abu Bakr (Cairo: al-Dar al-Misriya, 1994),
    542–47 (chap. 51 fi ahkam ahl al-dhimma).

  8. M. J. Kister, “Haddithu ̔an Bani Isra’il wa-la harja: A Study of an Early Tradition,”
    Israel Oriental Studies 2 (1972): 215–39; Kister, “Do Not Assimilate Yourselves,” Jerusalem
    Studies in Arabic and Islam 12 (1989): 321–71.

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