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Remembering Jewish-Muslim Encounters: Challenges and Cooperation
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Remembering Jewish-Muslim Encounters: Challenges and Cooperation

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2018) | Viewed by 191256

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Mehnaz Afridi

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Guest Editor
Religious Studies, Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center, Manhattan College, A Lasallian Catholic College, Riverdale, NY 10471, USA
Interests: Islam; Holocaust; Pakistan; Israel; interreligious identity; diaspora and transnational studies; post-genocide identity; feminist post-colonial theory, genocide, religion and violence

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the past few years, a number of books and articles related to Judaism and Islam have been published demonstrating both the expansion of Jewish-Muslim collective scholarly research and the growing interest in the subject by broader audiences. Jewish-Muslim scholarship is crucial in broadening this field but also allowing Jewish and Muslim minor literatures to emerge in the scholarly field. We are currently seeking papers for a peer-reviewed Journal Religions on the topic: Remembering Jewish-Muslim Encounters: Challenges and Cooperation. The volume will provide a broad geographic representation with a historical, literary and religious from the birth of Islam. The aim of this interdisciplinary collection is to provide a readable scholarly introduction to varieties of challenges and cooperation between Jews and Muslims extending from religious communities and cultural cooperation. We are looking for in-depth introductory essays chronicling the relationship of Jews and Muslims in regional or transnational contexts, dominant and emerging theories about commonalities, and differences. Overall, the volume is aimed at scholars who seek entry points in the range of critical issues and themes related to Islam and Judaism ranging from religion, history, philosophy, music, architecture, and poetry.

Dear Colleagues,

(1) We are seeking articles that focus on a specific historical period and/or example of Jewish-Muslim relations. The author must have both historical and theoretic understanding of the traditions and the historical scope of the article must lie from the birth of Islam. The purpose of the issue is to build upon the small field of Jewish-Muslim Relations and introduce scholars to smaller and unfamiliar territories of scholarship about Jewish-Muslim Relations. Examples such as; literature, poetry, psychoanalysis, music, architecture and philosophy within the field of Religious Studies.

(2) This volume of the journal will enhance and broaden the frame of Jewish-Muslim studies in fields such as; Religion, Theology, History and Anthropology.  

Prof. Dr. Mehnaz Afridi
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Religions is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Judaism
  • Islam
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Memory
  • Philosophy

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Muhammad, the Jews, and the Composition of the Qur’an: Sacred History and Counter-History
by Reuven Firestone
Religions 2019, 10(1), 63; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10010063 - 18 Jan 2019
Cited by 7 | Viewed by 173142
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According to Islamic religious teachings, some Jews confirmed the authenticity of Muhammad’s prophethood and joined him. Most Jews, however, are condemned for both rejecting the Prophet and failing to live up to their own religious imperatives. Medieval polemics tended to be harsh and [...] Read more.
According to Islamic religious teachings, some Jews confirmed the authenticity of Muhammad’s prophethood and joined him. Most Jews, however, are condemned for both rejecting the Prophet and failing to live up to their own religious imperatives. Medieval polemics tended to be harsh and belligerent, but while Muslims and Christians produced polemics under the protection and encouragement of their own religious and political authorities, Jews lived everywhere as minority communities and therefore lacked such protection. In order to maintain their own sense of dignity Jews polemicized as well, but they had to be subtle in argument. One form of polemic produced by Jews and other subalterns is “counter-history,” which retells well-known narratives in a manner that questions or undermines their message. One such counter-history is an ancient Jewish re-telling of the traditional Muslim narrative of divine revelation. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remembering Jewish-Muslim Encounters: Challenges and Cooperation)
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The Question of Nationalism and Belonging
by David M. Buyze
Religions 2018, 9(11), 351; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel9110351 - 08 Nov 2018
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This paper situates an analysis on the commonalities and ordinariness of Jewish and Muslim experiences vis-à-vis a critique on nationalism and belonging in the literature of Edeet Ravel and Mohsin Hamid, in addition to other writers. These literary writers are highlighted by an [...] Read more.
This paper situates an analysis on the commonalities and ordinariness of Jewish and Muslim experiences vis-à-vis a critique on nationalism and belonging in the literature of Edeet Ravel and Mohsin Hamid, in addition to other writers. These literary writers are highlighted by an exploration of Eran Riklis’ film A Borrowed Identity amidst the critical perspectives of Ari Shavit, Leila Ahmed, Edward W. Said, and Justin Trudeau. The focus on Israel/Palestine is complemented by addressing sustained issues of nationalism and belonging in America that reverberate on global degrees of awareness as to how religious degrees of belonging can be reconsidered in light of understanding instantiations of cultural mise-en-scène from nuanced degrees of awareness. In turn, a multifaceted unsettling of identity, religion, and culture is posited that vividly collapses distinctions between East/West in revealing highly different ways of contemplating perceptions of Jews and Muslims in the world today. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remembering Jewish-Muslim Encounters: Challenges and Cooperation)
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Islām and Genesis 17: A Study in Scriptural Intertextuality
by Khaleel Mohammed
Religions 2018, 9(10), 293; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel9100293 - 28 Sep 2018
Cited by 3 | Viewed by 6090
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Abraham Geiger’s 1833 essay launched a particular genre of research that posits foreign etymology for many terms in the Qur’ān. Whereas some work has been erudite, others have posited far-fetched concepts to the point where at least one author opines that Aramaic was [...] Read more.
Abraham Geiger’s 1833 essay launched a particular genre of research that posits foreign etymology for many terms in the Qur’ān. Whereas some work has been erudite, others have posited far-fetched concepts to the point where at least one author opines that Aramaic was the original language of the Qur’ān. Muslim exegetes have compounded the problem by seeking to interpret the Qur’ān on its own, without reference to other Abrahamic scriptures. I argue that Muhammad’s audience understood him clearly since he was using terms that had become part of the Arabic language long before his time. I examine three terms: islām, imān, and dīn, showing that the meaning of these words in the Qur’ān can be deciphered by reliance on context of usage and intertextuality. To this end, I refer to several verses of the Qur’ān as well as of the Hebrew Bible and Talmudic literature. A proper understanding of these words allows us to see Q3:19 and Q5:3 as pluralistic instead of the particularistic interpretation that most exegetes proffer. Full article
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Joint Jewish and Muslim Holy Places, Religious Beliefs and Festivals in Jerusalem between the Late 19th Century and 1948
by Menachem Klein
Religions 2018, 9(7), 220; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel9070220 - 20 Jul 2018
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Whereas the conflict over Palestine’s’ holy places and their role in forming Israeli or Palestinian national identity is well studied, this article brings to the fore an absent perspective. It shows that in the first half of the 20th century Muslims and Jews [...] Read more.
Whereas the conflict over Palestine’s’ holy places and their role in forming Israeli or Palestinian national identity is well studied, this article brings to the fore an absent perspective. It shows that in the first half of the 20th century Muslims and Jews in Jerusalem shared holy sites, religious beliefs and feasts. Jewish–Muslim encounters of that period went much beyond pre-modern practices of cohabitation, to the extent of developing joint local patriotism. On the other hand, religious and other holy sites were instrumental in the Jewish and Palestinian exclusive nation building process rather than an inclusive one, thus contributing to escalate the national conflict. Full article
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