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

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Islam—continued
93–94; prophecy, 4; Renaissance of, 243;
social system, 18; as submission, 46–47.
See also Arabo-Islamic culture; Prophet
of Islam
Islamia, 115
Islamic Caliphate, 90–92, 102n2
Islamic High Culture, 16
Islamic law, 5–6, 15, 135, 305; illegalities in,
126; negating Jewish law, 137
Islamic philosophy, 8, 243
Israel: renewed state of, 241; sages of,
72–75. See also Children of Israel; Land
of Israel; People of Israel; Sages of Israel
Israeli-Palestine conflict, 11, 18
Israelites, 28–30
Al-Isrā ̓īlī, Dhay, 275–76
Isrā ̓īliyyāt, 13
Issawi, Charles, 17–18
Istiqraj Tariq al-Yahud, 172
Izmir, 8; influence on Jewish music,
289–90; influence on Jewish musicians,
291–92; modernization, 285; rabbis’
response to influence, 294–96; song
copying in, 293–94


Jacob, 24
al-Jamā ̔a al-Islāmiyya, 10
Al-Jamal, R. Sāalim Saīd, 128–32, 134–35,
137, 141n12
Jamī ̔ at al- ̔Adl wa ̓I-I ̇sān, 10
Ibn al-Jawzī, 29
Jehovah, 173
Jeremiah, 24, 252
Jesus, 24, 37; mission, 38
Jethro, 26
Jew Dhay al-Isrālī, 276
Jewish identity, 267
Jewish law, 15, 140n1, 289; Islamic law
negating, 137; Ku ̇lānī Synagogue and,
135–36
Jewish leadership study in Meknes,
299–315
Jewish morals, 221, 228, 231
Jewish music: composition, 17, 244; Izmir
influences, 289–90; rabbis’ response,
294–96; religious songs, 289–90; secular


songs, 290; song copying, 293–94; Span-
ish influences, 290–91
Jewish musicians, 8; collaborating with
Muslim musicians, 281; encountering
Muslim musicians, 272–82; in Iraq,
279–80; Izmir influences, 291–92;
norms, 281; in Tunisia, 279. See also
Muslim musicians; specific musicians
Jewish-Muslim interrelationships, 3, 5
Jewish mysticism, 6, 263; beyond thir-
teenth century, 164; early, 148–53; early
Kabbalah, 153–56; migration of, 152;
overview, 147–48; thirteenth century,
156–63. See also Kabbalah movement;
Merkabah mysticism; Spanish Kabbalah
Jewish Orientalism, 148
Jewish parody and allegory: Arabic
literature influence, 210–11; biblical
intertexuality in, 210–11; love poetry,
209–10; ma ̇barot influencing, 211;
Ma ̇beret Nine, 225–32; Ma ̇beret Seven,
215–25, 230–32; maqāma genre, 224, 232;
maqāmāt influencing, 211; overview,
208–9; Sippurei ̓Ahava, 212–15
Jewish philosophy, 148, 253
Jewish pietist movement, 6
Jewish-Sephardic theater, 286
Jewry, 11; in Dār al-islām, 14; Morocco,
5–6, 109–10, 281
Jews, 1, 2, 90; ̔Abbasid Baghdad, 247; as
ahl kitāb, 13; Babylonian, 241–68, 266;
codes of, 15; colonial powers and, 18;
communal life, 3; companions of Mu-
hammad, 64–83; conquest narratives,
149; conspiracy, 11; converting to Islam,
5, 68–70, 118; decline, 12; elite, 5; in ghet-
tos, 16–17; helping Al-Kha††āb, ̔Umar
ibn, 97; Óijāz, 65; Ibn Abi ̓l-Bayan
identity, 201–3; Islam perceived by, 14; of
Khyabar, 97; Al-Kuhin al- ̔Attar iden-
tity, 201–3; Mecca, 65; medicine and,
7; in Meknes, 300–302; as middlemen,
17; migrants, 4; Morocco, 5–6, 109–10,
281; musical composition, 17; Ottoman
Empire, 284–86; Persian, 277, 281; poll
taxes and, 92–93, 97, 98; reacting to con-
quest narratives, 96–99; ruling by proxy,
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