POLEMICS IN THE AGE OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTIONS: MAIMONIDES' ATTITUDE TOWARDS ISLAM

• Authors: Boušek Daniel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present paper inquires into Maimonides' attitude to Islam. His halakhic stance towards Islam has been moulded in the period of large-scale religious persecutions in Maghreb and Yemen whose repercussions has found the way to his writings dealing with Islam. Both persecutions affected not only local Jewish communities but also Maimonides personally when he had to convert to Islam. The paper analyses his refutation of the main arguments of Muslim polemics with Judaism: Biblical testimonies to Muhammad; falsification of the Scripture; the abrogation of the Mosaic Law. In his polemical discourse with Islam Maimonides has not introduced much new and in fact reiterates polemical arguments of the older Jewish authorities.

Keywords

EN

CONVERSION; ISLAM; JUDAISM; MAIMONIDES; PERSECUTION; POLEMICS

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 46-85
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Boušek Daniel

• Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Celetná 20, 116 42 Praha 1, Czech Republic

• Daniel Bousek, Ustav orientalistiky SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA097025