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

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65. The Samaritans. Cf. Kings II, 17, 24ff.


66. Sūrat al Baqarah (the Sūra of the Cow) is the second chapter of the Quran.


67. The Karaite commentator, Abū al-Faraj Furqān b. Asad (Yeshū ̔ah b. Yehūda), a
    resident of Jerusalem, lived in the eleventh century. See Leon Nemoy, Karaite Anthology
    (Excerpts from the Early Literature) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952), 123–32.


68. Al-Maghribī was a twelfth-century Jewish mathematician and physician who
    converted to Islam. Ifhām al-Yahūd is a harsh polemic treatise that he wrote. Cf. Moshe
    Perlmann’s introduction to Samau’al al-Magribī, Ifhām al-Yahūd, 15–18.


69. Cf. the text of Sambari, above between notes 54–56.


70. Abraham Zakkut, a distinguished Jewish historian, was born ca. 1440 in Sala-
    manca (Castile). He Left Spain in the wake of the Expulsion of 1492 and died ca. 1515
    in Damascus. See Aharon Freimann’s introduction to Sefer Yuhassīn ha-Shalem, 3d ed.
    (Jerusalem, 1966) (Hebrew) (reprint of Filipowskiws edition of Sefer Yuhassīn), 1–11.


71. Obviously, the date is erroneous, as Muhammad appeared roughly in the year 610.


72. Cf. “Yōhanan... , Akīvā al-Antoki” in the geniza text cited in chapter 5, between
    notes 37–39.


73. Cf. Filipowski, Yuh assīn: 247b.


74. “The Tale of Muhammad,” was published by B. Cohen in Revue des études juives
    88 (1929): 12–17. He holds that this pseudo-epigraphic text was composed in the seven-
    teenth century. Due to its great length, I only quoted the relevant parts of it with many
    omissions.


75. Hosea 9:7.