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Anti-Judaism/Antisemitism/Anti-Zionism
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1. Traditional anti-Judaism in the Islamic World A historical survey of Islamic attitudes toward and treatment of Jews must take into account the facts that Islam is (1) a religion with a corpus of doctrines, beliefs, and practices that have evolved over fourteen hundred years and have been subject to widely varying manifestations and interpretations; (2) a body politic, united at…
Editorial Board
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Stillman, Norman A. is the Schusterman/Josey Professor of Judaic History at the University of Oklahoma, and is an internationally recognized authority on the history and culture of the Islamic world and on Sephardi and Oriental Jewry. Professor Stillman received his BA (magna cum laude) and PhD in Oriental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Jewish Theological Seminary. H…
Muḥammad Riḍā('ῑ) “Jadῑd al-Islam”
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see Iqāmat al-Shuhūd fῑ Radd al-Yahūd Norman A. Stillman
Ibn Yuli, Elijah ha-Levi
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Elijah ha-Levi, born in the late 1730s or early 1740s, belonged to a distinguished Moroccan family of merchants, scholars and court Jews, and he himself was one of the most powerful Jewish retainers (Ar.
aṣḥāb al-sulṭān) of the Alawid sultan Sīdī Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh (r. 1757–1790). His father, Judah, was a prosperous merchant in Rabat-Salé and
shaykh (nagid) of its Jewish community. Like his father, Elijah was one of the so-called sultan's merchants (Ar.
tujjār
al-sulṭān), not only conducting business on the ruler’s behalf, but also acting as an intermediary with foreign consuls and occasionally serving…
