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

Contents

Acknowledgments vii

1. Introduction 1
   Michael M. Laskier and Yaacov Lev


2. Judaism and Islam: Fourteen Hundred Years of Intertwined Destiny?
   An Overview 10
   Norman A. Stillman

Section I. Religion, Law, and Mysticism

3. Quran and Muslim Exegesis as a Source for the Bible and
   Ancient History 23
   Brannon Wheeler


4. The Quran’s Depiction of Abraham in Light of the Hebrew Bible
   and Midrash 45
   Bat-Sheva Garsiel


5. Present at the Dawn of Islam: Polemic and Reality in the Medieval
   Story of Muhammad’s Jewish Companions 64
   Shimon Shtober


6. The Use of Islamic Materials by Non-Muslim Writers 89
   Yehoshua Frenkel


7. The Martyrdom of Sol Hachuel: Ridda in Morocco in 1834 109
   Juliette Hassine


8. Halakhah through the Lens of Sharī ̔ah: The Case of the Kuhlānī
   Synagogue in San ̔ā’, 1933–1944 126
   Mark S. Wagner