The Divergence of Judaism and Islam. Interdependence, Modernity, and Political Turmoil

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  1. For the commandment to observe the Sabbath, see Quran, 4:154, 16:124;
    the punishment for those who desecrate the Sabbath, Quran, 2:65, 7:163–66.

  2. Ḥabshush, Mas ̔ot Ḥabshush, 100–101; encouraging and helping a Jew in
    Ḥaydan at the beginning of the twentieth century to keep the Sabbath, Madar
    Halevi, “Yeḥasim”; and see Muslims respecting the Jews’ Sabbath in Ezra Qe-
    hati, Yaqirai be-Teman, 53; in Khawlan district, Gamli ̓eli, Ḥevyon Teman, 73.

  3. Reuben Shar ̔abi, Yeḥi Re ̓uben, 43–44.

  4. Ḥabshush, Mas ̔ot Habshush, 100; Ezra Qehati, Yaqirai be-Teman, 53.

  5. See Garama, Yehudei al-Agbari, 19, regarding the Zaydi tribesmen of al-
    Agbari; Efrayim Ya ̔aqob, ed., Temana (Nahariya: Hadrei Teman, 1995), 116–19,
    regarding Hugariyya south to Ta ̔izz; Madar Halevi, “Yeḥasim.”

  6. Yosef Asta, Hayyei Yosef (Tel-Aviv: Afiqim, 1987), 37.

  7. Sigmund Freud, “The ‘Uncanny,’“ in The Standard Edition of the Complete
    Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (London: Hogarth Press, 1955), 17:219–56.

  8. Magic and mysticism do not have defined and distinguishing borders. As
    to magic and sorcery, I generally related to magic as a practice that intends to
    achieve profits and to sorcery as a practice that is directed toward causing harm.
    For definitions of magic, see Moshe Idel, “Yahadut, Mistica Yehudit u-Magia,”
    Jewish Studies 36 (1996): 25; Avriel Bar-Levav, “Magia be-Sifrut ha-Musar,” Tarb-
    itz 72, no. 3 (2003): 394–95.

  9. Abraham Tabib, Shavei Teman (Tel-Aviv: Omanut, 1932), 26.

  10. See Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman, The Jews of Yemen in the Nineteenth Century:
    A Portrait of a Messianic Community (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993), 117–18, 155–58;
    Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman, Meshiḥiyut u-Meshiḥim: Yehudei Temen ba-Mea ha-Yod
    Tet (Tel-Aviv: Hakibutz Hameuhad, 1995), 84–85, 108–10.

  11. In Tunisia, see Shlomo Deshen, “Yehudei Tunisia: Tzarfatiyut, Arviyut,
    Yahadut,” Zemanim 82 (2003): 8.

  12. See, for example, Tabib, Shavei Teman; Madar Halevi, “Yeḥasim”; Ya ̔aqov
    Sappir, Sefer Masa ̔ Teman, annotated by Avraham Ya ̔ari (Jerusalem: ha-Aḥim
    Levin Epstein, 1951), 192–93; Efraim Ya ̔aqov, ed., Mavo le- ̓Eretz al-Ḥugariyya
    by Mori Yosef Rada (Nahariya: Ḥadrei Teman, 1995), 101; Zihra Garama, Yehudei
    al-Agbari, 19–20; Reuben Shar ̔abi, Yeḥi Re ̓uben, 32–33. For Imam Yaḥya calling
    on the Jewish community of San ̔a ̓ to conduct a special prayer for rain in 1946,
    see AZM S6 3802.

  13. For example, Sappir, Sefer Masa ̔ Teman, 192–93; Tabib, Shavei Teman, 26;
    Madar Halevi, “Yeḥasim”; Ya ̔aqov, Mavo le- ̓Eretz al-Ḥugariyya, 101; Garama,
    Yehudei al-Agbari, 19–20; Reuben Shar ̔abi, Yeḥi Re ̓uben, 32–33; Benei Moshe,
    Ba-Mesila Na ̔ale, 35–36; S. D. Goitein, From the Land of Sheba: Tales of the Jews of
    Yemen (New York: Schocken 1947), 87; for Imam Yaḥya who asked the Jewish
    community of San ̔a ̓, in 1946, to perform a special public prayer and plead for
    rain, see Central Zionist Archives (CZA), S6 3802; for the cemetery as “commu-
    nication center” serving to transmit requests for rain and other pleas, see Avriel
    Bar-Levav, “The Other Place: The Cemetery in Jewish Culture,” Pe ̔amim 98–99
    (2004): 14–17 (Hebrew).

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