بذة عن الكتاب:ما العلاقة بين الإسلام واليهوديّة؟ هل هناك مشتركات تأسيسيّة؟ هل حقاً ثمّة اقتباس واستعارة؟ هل كان ذلك –إن وجد- ممكناً ومُتاحاً؟ دراسةٌ مثيرة يقوم بها المؤلف بحثًا عن الصلات المشتركة بين الدينين، وهي، في الوقت نفسه، جزءٌ من الصورة التي يرى فيها الآخر الدين الإسلامي، صورة عن الصراع الفكري والمعرفي بين الأديان والذي لا يقل احتدامه عن الحروب والصراعات المسلحة التي غطّت المنطقة بسبب التعصب وعدم تقبّل الاختلاف.
Gets extra points for being the first of its kind. But loses them for the same reason I guess. Lacking a lot of the scholarly caution or probity of later works in its genre. it's a bit funny to see how frum some of the assumptions of reform judaisms founder are as of this work. At points he quotes prayers from the Ashkenazi yom kippur davening as somehow Rabbinic imagery for Islamic borrowing. At another he quotes rashi's description of an image not found in the talmudh , as something that the seventh century hijazi Jews would have somehow had in their tradition. Also has a less than justified view of that community and many assumptions about what it would or would not have been rabbinically fluent in.
Still the book deserves serious credit for beginning a new direction in Islamic studies and for introducing a tone of ecumenical respect to the discipline of comparative religion previously unknown in European analyses of Islam.
مرهق جدا في الإحالة للمصادر وإغفال لترجمة المصادر العبرية وذكرها بالعبرية بدل العربية واللي تسبب في ضخامة حجم الكتاب على الفاضي. دراسة توضع في الاعتبار في قراءات الأديان وعلاقة الإسلام باليهودية بس مظنش إنه أفضل حاجة.
كان رشحه لينا المستشار عبد الجواد ياسين في فترة ورشة دراسة كتابه الدين والتدين اللي فيه خط يتقاطع مع موضوع الكتاب في أصالة الأفكار الإسلامية أو إعادة تدوير الأفكار والشرائع.
An interesting book, somewhat like (20th century professor Jan Assmann's) "Moses the Egyptian", where one religion takes from another and prohibits what the other insists, and insists what the other prohibits. Still, very difficult in long portions due to my totally incomplete knowledge of rabbinic texts. A lot went right over my head, but I could sometimes just get the gist of it. The problem is with the reader, not the author.
A good little book. It's basically about how Muhammad borrowed from Judaism. This fact may seem obvious as Islam is a later Abrahamic religion, but this book establishes a connection that we would otherwise take for granted. The book is however is quite antiquated in language and in print, being the original 1898 print or typeface.