A History of the Jews of Arabia
eBook - PDF

A History of the Jews of Arabia

From Ancient Times to Their Eclipse under Islam

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A History of the Jews of Arabia

From Ancient Times to Their Eclipse under Islam

About this book

A reconstructed history of a complex Jewish community in Arabia at a critical juncture in world history

The Jewish communities of Arabia had a great influence on the attitudes that Muslims hold toward Jews, and yet relatively little has been written about their history. The sources are sparse, and Arabic literary texts from the early period of Islam remain the greatest source of our understanding of Arabian Judaism. Through techniques borrowed from anthropology, literary criticism, sociology, and comparative religion, Gordon Darnell Newby reconstructs the understanding of Jewish life in Arabia before and during the time of Muhammad. In addition this material is used to develop a perspective on the inter-confessional relations between Judaism and Islam during an era when the latter was at one of its most dynamic stages of growth.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. A HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF ARABIA
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Editor's Preface
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Looking at the Past
  10. 2. Legends and Ancient Origins
  11. 3. Jews, Arabs, and Romans
  12. 4. The Southern Jewish Kingdoms
  13. 5. The Jews of the Ḥijâz
  14. 6. Muḥammad and the Jews
  15. 7. Arabian Judaism after Muḥammad
  16. 8. Afterword on Historiography
  17. Abbreviations in Notes and Bibliography
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index