Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism

by BOSTOM, ANDREW G.WARRAQ, IBN

• ISBN13: 9781591025542
• ISBN10: 1591025540
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-30
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

This comprehensive, meticulously documented collection of scholarly articles presents indisputable evidence that a readily discernible, uniquely Islamic antisemitism-a specific Muslim hatred of Jews-has been expressed continuously since the advent of Islam.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introductory Quotes	p. 11
A Note on the Cover Art	p. 13
Editor's Note on the Text	p. 19
Foreword	p. 21
Islamic Antisemitism-Jew Hatred in Islam
A Survey of Its Theological-Juridical Origins and Historical Manifestations	p. 31
Anti-Jewish Motifs in the Qur'an and its Exegesis
Qur'anic Verses	p. 209
Jew Hatred in the Islamic Tradition and the Koranic Exegesis	p. 221
Anti-Jewish Motifs in the Hadith
Excerpts from the Canonical Hadith Collections	p. 229
Jews and Muslims according to the Hadith	p. 235
Anti-Jewish Motifs in the Sira (Early Muslim Biographies of Muhammad)
Muhammad's Jewish Adversaries in Medina	p. 263
The Affair of the Banu Qaynuqa`	p. 265
The Assassination of Ka`b b. al-Ashraf	p. 267
The Brothers Muhayyisa and Huwayyisa	p. 269
The Raid against the Banu Nadir (AH 3/625)	p. 271
The Extermination of the Banu Qurayza (AH 5/627)	p. 275
Muhammad and the Jews of Khaybar (AH 7/628)	p. 279
Excerpts from the Sira of Ibn Sa'd	p. 283
Muhammad at Khaybar	p. 297
The History of the Jews of Medina	p. 299
Muslim Jurists, Theologians, and Scholars on the Jews: Classical and Premodern Era
The First Jews' Oath in Islam	p. 315
Why the Muslims Prefer the Christians to the Jews	p. 317
A Renegade Jew as the Source of the Shi'ite "Heresy" and the "Conspiracy" to Destroy the Early Islamic Caliphate	p. 319
"To Disclose the Fraudulence of the Jewish Men of Learning"	p. 321
A Collection of Legal Opinions Demonstrating the Attitudes of Muslim Jurists and Citizens toward the Jews of Muslim Spain and North Africa, Ninth-Fifteenth Centuries	p. 323
Anti-Jewish Anecdotes from an Anti-Dhimmi Treatise	p. 327
On Killing a Jew	p. 329
Lightning Bolts against the Jews	p. 331
Eleventh-Century Andalusian Authors on the Jews of Granada	p. 335
"Adversos Judaeos": A Treatise from Maghrib-"Ahkam ahl al-Dhimma" by Sayh Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Karim al-Magili	p. 345
Muslim Jurists, Theologians, and Scholars on the Jews: Modern ERA
Our Struggle with the Jews	p. 355
The Jews in the Qur'an	p. 365
The Jewish Attitude toward Islam and Muslims in Early Islam	p. 371
Extracts from "Arab Theologians on Jews and Israel"	p. 383
Extracts from The Children of Israel in the Qur'an and the Sunna	p. 391
Extracts from The Jews in the Qur'an	p. 403
Extracts from Qur'anic Truths regarding the Palestinian Issue	p. 429
Our War with the Jews Is in the Name of Islam	p. 455
The Jews of Today Bear Responsibility for Their Forefathers' Crime against Jesus	p. 457
The Jews' Twenty Bad Traits as Described in the Qur'an	p. 459
The Jews of Arab Muslim Lands: Historical Maps
Twelve Maps of the History of the Jews of the Islamic Near East	p. 465
The Dhimmi Condition for Jews, and Muslim Jew Hatred: Early Islam Through the Modern Era
Evidence on the Muslim Poll Tax from Non-Muslim Sources: A Geniza Study	p. 481
Concerning the Situation of Jews and Christians in Seville at the Beginning of the Twelfth Century	p. 489
The Distinctive Sign of the Jews in Maghreb	p. 491
The Origins of 'Obadyah, the Norman Proselyte-'Obadyah's Experiences in Baghdad, Early Twelfth Century	p. 495
Moses b. Samuel, a Jewish Katib in Damascus, and His Pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca	p. 499
The Destruction of the Kairouan, and the Almoravid and Almohad Persecutions	p. 505
The Pact of 'Umar in Morocco: A Reappraisal of Muslim-Jewish Relations	p. 519
New Documents regarding Attacks upon Jewish Religious Observance in Morocco during the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 525
Jews under Muslim Rule-II: Morocco 1903-1912	p. 535
The Moroccan Jewish Experience: A Revisionist View	p. 549
Excerpts from The Israelites of Tunisia: Their Civil and Political Condition	p. 557
"Outcaste": Shi'a Intolerance	p. 563
The Expulsion of Yemenite Jewry to Mawza' in 1679-80 in Light of Recently Discovered Sources	p. 573
Conversion to Islam among Yemenite Jews under Zaydi Rule: The Positions of Zaydi Law, the Imam, and Muslim Society	p. 577
The Sephardim in Bosnia: A Contribution to the History of the Jews in the Balkans	p. 589
Palestine under the Rule of Ibrahim Pasha	p. 593
The Dhimmi Factor in the Exodus of Jews from Arab Countries	p. 601
Endowing Denial	p. 611
Modern Egyptian Jew Hatred: Indigenous Elements and Foreign Influences	p. 613
Judaism and Islam as Opposites	p. 619
Islamic Fundamentalism, Antisemitism, and Anti-Zionism	p. 627
Based on Qur'anic Verses, Interpretations, and Traditions, Muslim Clerics State: The Jews Are the Descendants of Apes, Pigs, and Other Animals	p. 633
Jews as "Christ-Killers" in Islam	p. 641
Antisemitism in (Contemporary) Islam: Europe in the Conflict between Tolerance and Ideology	p. 643
Documents and Eyewitness Accounts
Decrees of Dhimmitude, 850-1905	p. 653
Jews as Dhimmis and Muslim Chattel, 1790-1949	p. 655
Two Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Modern Era before the Creation of Israel: Baghdad (1941) and Tripolitania (1945)	p. 663
Light-Skinned Egyptian Muslim Repeatedly Beaten by His Co-religionists for "Looking Jewish" (1948)	p. 669
"Jews in Grave Danger in All Moslem Lands"	p. 671
New York Times Reports on the Exodus of Jews from the Arab Muslim Middle East, 1955-1962	p. 673
An Eyewitness Account of the Anti-Jewish Riots in Tunis at the Outbreak of the Six-Day War (1967)	p. 675
A Libyan Jew Breaks Her Silence Thirty-six Years after Surviving the 1967 Tripolitan Pogrom	p. 677
The Modern Rhetoric of Antisemitic Jihad Genocide	p. 679
Major Contributors	p. 685
Muslim Jurists, Theologians, and Historians	p. 691
Sources and Credits	p. 695
Bibliography	p. 699
Index of Places	p. 733
Index of Persons, Peoples, Organizations, and Institutions	p. 741
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