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Muhammad respected the Jews, and his early teachings appeared to borrow from Jewish tradition. The Jews began to distance themselves from Muhammad, however, when he became critical of their not recognizing him as a prophet.
His views on Jews include his theological teaching of them as People of the Book (Ahl al-Kitab), his description of them as earlier receivers of Abrahamic revelation; and the failed political alliances between the Muslim and Jewish communities.
Jews lived among Sunnis, Shi‘a, and Druze, and had well-functioning trade and communal relations with all of them. The nature of Jewish-Muslim relations, however, changed with the emergence of the Palestine conflict. The first strains in Sunni-Jewish relations appeared with the 1936–39 Arab Revolt.
These interactions inform the earliest relations between Muslims and Jews and serve as precursors to the social, cultural, religious, political, and institutional relations between Muslims and Jews from the 7th century to the present.
For Islam, Moses was matched by a subsequent prophet whose life paralleled his but was ultimately exceeded by him: Muḥammad. This study analyzes the nature of the Jewish reaction to the Muslim claim of Mu ammad’s superiority over Moses. The analysis opens with a.
What seems clear is that the first sustained encounter between Jews and Muslims occurred when the Prophet abandoned his place of birth and together with a number of his Meccan followers relocated at an oasis called Yathrib.
8 maj 2015 · According to Johan Bouman in Der Koran und die Juden: Die Geschichte einer Tragödie [The Qur’an and the Jews: The History of a Tragedy] (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1990), 69–70, the Jews rejected Muhammad’s prophecy because they saw in him two traits that they considered to be incompatible with those of a real prophet ...
