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* [http://www.alsadiqin.org/history/From%20Bar%20Kochba%20to%20the%20Prophet%20Muhammed.pdf From Bar Kochba to the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh)].  A historical analysis of the derivation of Islam within the context of  Mecca (home to a Ptolemaic-Sadducean Universal religion) and Medina (home to the Jewish militancy of what was left of the Great Revolts).
 
* [http://www.alsadiqin.org/history/From%20Bar%20Kochba%20to%20the%20Prophet%20Muhammed.pdf From Bar Kochba to the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh)].  A historical analysis of the derivation of Islam within the context of  Mecca (home to a Ptolemaic-Sadducean Universal religion) and Medina (home to the Jewish militancy of what was left of the Great Revolts).
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* [[Islamic Terms borrowed from Judaism]] A work in progress. It is intended to be a list of common "points of contact" between Islam and Judaism as evidenced by borrowed vocabulary. The list needs to be greatly expanded, especially referencing the work of Reinhart Dozy.

Revision as of 11:34, 19 July 2007

"Islam and Judaism: the early years" a series of articles, using a historiographical approach, stating that Jews and Muslims were originally friends.

Papers by Ben Abrahamson and Joseph Katz

  • The Islamic Jewish Calendar. How the Pilgrimage of the 9th of Av became the Hajj of the 9th of Dhu'al-Hijjah. Researches the derivation and correspondence of the Islamic and Jewish Calendars; explaining how, among other things, the 9th of Av / Pilgrimage became the 9th of Dhu'al-Hijjah / Hajj; discusses the strictly lunar calendar and the use of the crescent symbol as the end result of the rejection of Hillel II's mathematical calendar.
  • The Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) as a descendant of Onias III. Explores the possibility that the Prophet (pbuh) was a descendant of Onias and a Jorhom (Trans-Jordanian) Princess, that Islam in part inherited from Ptolemy, and that the Ka'aba may be the "monument on the border of Egypt" mentioned in Isaiah 19 that was rebuilt along with the Temple at Heliopolis.
  • The Persian conquest of Jerusalem in 614CE compared with Islamic conquest of 638CE. Its Messianic nature and the role of the Jewish Exilarch. Explores the conquests of Jerusalem in 614CE and 638CE within the context of previous attempts at Jewish restoration. Discusses reasons for a Persian-Jewish alliance and later a Judeo-Arab alliance. An account is given of Babylonian Jewish Exilarch Nechemiah ben Hushiel, his brother Shallum (Salmaan Farsi) and nephew Yakov (Kab Al-Ahbar) who played pivotal roles in these conquests. Proposes that the twelve men who went to Mecca to meet with the Prophet (pbuh) were Jewish refugees from Edessa, by way of Medina.
  • The Weeks of Daniel. An exploration of the Jewish Prophecies and expectations concerning the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) as "Ish Hammudot"
  • The True Meaning of Jihad. Research into the roots and context of Jihad as "Y-H Echad" as related to Sanctification of the Name, or Kiddush Hashem.
  • Yosef Dhu Nuwas, a Sadducean King with Sidelocks. Explores 3rd to 5th century Arabia and the Kingdom of Himyar as an extension of the Second Commonwealth; also covers his loss of a replica of the Ark of the Covenant, now buried under a church in Axum, Ethiopia.
  • From Bar Kochba to the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh). A historical analysis of the derivation of Islam within the context of Mecca (home to a Ptolemaic-Sadducean Universal religion) and Medina (home to the Jewish militancy of what was left of the Great Revolts).
  • Islamic Terms borrowed from Judaism A work in progress. It is intended to be a list of common "points of contact" between Islam and Judaism as evidenced by borrowed vocabulary. The list needs to be greatly expanded, especially referencing the work of Reinhart Dozy.