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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 GB
Title of host publicationMuslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible
Subtitle of host publicationTexts and Studies
EditorsCamilla Adang, Sabine Schmidtke
Place of PublicationAtlanta, Georgia
Pages397-409
Number of pages13
StatePublished - 2019

Publication series

NameResources in Arabic and Islamic studies
Volume11

RAMBI Publication

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

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