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Israel and Humanity
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An outline of Rabbi Benamozegh's classic Israel and Humanity |
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The Persian compared with the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem
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Outline of the book of same name by Ben Abrahamson |
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The Scriptural Roots of Modern Political Science: Faith and Citizenship Presentation, Onyx Link Foundation
Onyx Link Foundation, Wales, 2019
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An understanding of the scriptural roots of modern political science creates a unified narrative for Christians, Jews, Muslims, and the non-believer. Modern concepts of nation, citizen, coexistence, equality, rights, faith, law and morality are rooted in the Bible and were revived by Christian Hebraists in the 16th - 18th centuries. The rights that we cherish today were actually revived by deeply religious Christians, on deeply religious grounds, and this has its parallel in the Islamic tradition. The state is meant to function in a back seat position, secondary to the family, tribe, community and guild, policing only to preserve the common good and not to impose values. This is the basic assumption of the scriptural roots of modern political scientists as brought down by Christian Hebraists, this is what avoided civil war in the United Kingdom. We ignore this heritage at our peril. |
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What Does It Mean To Believe? In The Context Of Ibn ʿAbbās On “Whoever Seeks a Dīn Other Than Al-Islām, It Will Not Be Accepted From Him” (QurʾĀn 3:85)
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2026
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This study examines the meaning of īmān in early Qurʾānic exegesis and its implications for the s… |
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The Green Servant: Pinchas, Eliyahu, and al-Khiḍr as One Servant of God with Eternal Life
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2026
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This article advances a deliberately bold reconstruction: the figures known in Jewish tradition a… |
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“We Make No Distinction Between Any of Them”: Qur’anic Non-Exclusivity and a Rabbinic Theology of Testimonial Confirmation
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2026
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The Qur’anic formula “We make no distinction between any of them” is classically read in tafsīr a… |
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What Did Ibn Ḥazm Fear? Jews Who Follow Torah and Their Place in Islam
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2026
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This article offers a multi-covenantal counter-reading of Ibn Ḥazm’s polemic against ʿĪsawiyyah J… |
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“If Moses Were Among You”: Prophetic Finality, Torah-Faith, and the Limits of Conversion in Early Islamic Sources
Studies in History and Jurisprudence , 2026
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This article reconsiders the report in which the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ declares that, were Moses a… |
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Recognizing Jews as Believers under Islam: Torah-Faith in an Early Tafsīr Report on Qurʾān 2:208
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2026
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This article examines an early tafsīr report on Qurʾān 2:208 transmitted from Ibn ʿAbbās through… |
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Reconstructing an Andalusī Theology of Jewish Covenant, Public Dignity, and Mosaic Validity
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2026
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This article reconstructs a possible Andalusī Muslim covenant theology of Israel by reading Abū I… |
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Nehemiah ben Hushiel and the Persian Conquest of Jerusalem (614 CE)
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2026
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This study reconstructs the career, death, and afterlife of Nehemiah ben Hushiel, a Persian-backe… |
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Jesus (ʿĪsā b. Maryam) as Law‑Bearer and Community Founder in the Qurʾān and Classical Tafsīr
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2026
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This article examines whether the Qurʾān and classical Sunni tafsīr support the claim that Jesus… |
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Faith without Conversion: Al-Ṭabarī, Al-Qurṭubī, and Rabbinic Noahism on the Continuity of Revelation
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2025
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This historical study explores a shared structure in classical Qurʾānic exegesis and Rabbinic tho… |
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From Onias to Hananeel: The Oniad Legacy and the Origins of the Essenes
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2025
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This study proposes that the Teacher of Righteousness (Moreh Ẓedeq) of the Qumran corpus originat… |
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Ṭabarī’s Salmān al-Fārisī within the context of the Persian Conquest of Jerusalem (614–617 CE)
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2025
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This article takes a fresh look at Ṭabarī’s Salmān al-Fārisī narrative: The Mosul–Jerusalem episo… |
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Mary, the Spirit, and the Trinity in the Qur'an: A Historical and Rabbinic Perspective
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2025
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This article examines why the Qur'an rebukes Christians for worshiping Jesus and Mary but not the… |
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From “Fire in Yemen” to Ballistic Missiles: Apocalyptic Templates
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2025
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A ḥadīth preserved in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim and Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī predicts that the final portent of the Ho… |
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A Response on the Boundaries of Noahide Religious Expression
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2025
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This paper offers a critical response to an essay which argues that Noahides are prohibited from… |
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Sūrat Al-Fātiḥah, Āmīn, and Taslīm: A Liturgical Response to Sectarian Exclusivity
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2025
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This article examines how three elements of Islamic ritual prayer-Sūrat al-Fātiḥah, the communal… |
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Priests, not Rabbis: Reconsidering the Sectarian Identity of the Jews of Yathrib
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2025
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This article revisits the dominant view that the Jewish communities of pre-Islamic Yathrib (Medin… |
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Echoes of Pluralism: Competing Conceptions of Salvation in Early Islamic Exegesis
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2025
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This article proposes that early Islamic theology preserved multiple conceptions of salvation, in… |
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Islam is the Most Pluralistic of all Religions
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This document emerged while I was translating a book on Lost Christianity for a professor of Aqee… |
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Signs of the Hour & The Messiah
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2025
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This paper explores the intersection of religious and social crises in the contemporary world, em… |
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Whoever says the Prophets sinned is simply mistaken
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2018
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This paper discusses the question posed by the Rabbis of the Talmud concerning whether the prophe… |
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Yosef Dhu Nuwas: A Sadducean King with Sidelocks
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2011
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This paper traces the history and fortunes of the Hellenizing Jewish family of the Tobiads from t… |
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The Persian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614CE compared with the Islamic Conquest of 638 CE: Its Messianic Nature and the Role of the Jewish Exilarch
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2004
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Explores the conquests of Jerusalem in 614CE and 638CE within the context of previous attempts at… |
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The Intended Sacrifice: Ishmael (pbuh) or Isaac (pbuh) ─ A Study In Combined Report
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2015
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The question of whether Ishmael or Isaac were the intended sacrifice of Abraham has sparked dogma… |
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Reconstructing the Islamic Jewish Calendar
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2020
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The author traces the roots of the Islamic Calendar to the Jewish calendar.Beginning in 325 CE, t… |
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Multicovenantism in Judaism and Islam
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2020
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"Multicovenantism" is the concept that there are different covenants (brith, sha'aria) for differ… |
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The Jews of the Qur'an
Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 2020
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The Jews of the Qur'an belonged to varied and mutually exclusive groups. Some Jews joined Muhamma… |
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The Islamic Jewish Calendar: How the Pilgrimage of the 9th of Av became the Hajj of the 9th of Dhu'al-Hijjah
Studies in History and Jurisprudence , 2007
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The Islamic or Hijra calendar is made up of 12 lunar months. Traces of Jewish holidays like Rosh… |
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