The Jews and Islam
The Jews and Islam
I imagine that this presentation should really be called an infocast, because for the most part I am only going to convey information from others, rather than my own first-hand research and conclusions. But then again, some things are beyond our reach, and that is all we can do in this case, which is to learn history through the eyes of others who can go places where we ourselves will never tread. So unfortunately, in order to attain first or even second-hand information concerning jewish history, one must employ jewish sources, and it seems that there was a complete dearth of medieval Western Christian scholars who even had access to penetrate jewish and islamic society in order to study their archives and develop a sense of their internal history. Political, social and linguistic isolation between the two worlds for many centuries had created an environment in which jews alone had a peculiar monopoly on any bridges between them. The few European scholars who did learn Hebrew or Arabic throughout the centuries, had done so strictly for theological reasons rather than for the investigation and writing of history.
In the past, both myself and Clifton Emahiser had cited Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Alzog’s Manual of Universal Church History in order to elucidate Muhammad’s jewish relations, however I am not going to repeat those here. Rather, here we are going to discuss much more extensive aspects of the relationship between jews and muslims, or really, some ancient sources which attest to the role of jews in the formulation of islam, and then how jews had facilitated its spread throughout the medieval world.

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