A polemic against Judaism by a convert to Islam from the Ottoman period: "Risālat Ilzām al-Yahūd fīmā zaʿamū fī l-Tawrāt min qibal ʿilm al-kalām"

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Abstract

It is well known that many of the classical works of Muslim polemics against Christianity and Judaism were written by converts to Islam from these religions.¹ Among the Christian converts, the onetime Christian Ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī (d. ca. 251/865) and the erstwhile friar Anselm de Turmeda, better known as ʿAbd Allāh al-Turǧumān (d. ca. 828/1424) come to mind; former Jews who attacked the religion of their ancestors include Samawʾal al-Maġribī (d. 570/1175), Saʿīd b. Ḥasan of Alexandria (wrote 720/1320), ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Islāmī (wrote ca. 798/1395), and the unknown author of the tract Taʾyīd al-milla, who probably wrote in the fourteenth...
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMuslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible
Subtitle of host publicationTexts and Studies
EditorsCamilla Adang , Sabine Schmidtke
Place of PublicationAtlanta, Georgia
Publisher Lockwood Press
Pages397-409
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9781948488204
StatePublished - 2019

Publication series

NameResources in Arabic and Islamic studies
Volume11

RAMBI Publications

  • rambi
  • Bible -- Influence
  • Islam -- Relations -- Judaism -- History -- 16th century
  • Muslim converts from Christianity
  • Muslim converts from Judaism
  • Polemics

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