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The Nusayrī-ʿAlawī Religion

An enquiry into its theology and liturgy

By: Meir M. Bar-Asher,Aryeh Kofsky

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The Nusayrī-ʿAlawī Religion

An enquiry into its theology and liturgy

By: Meir M. Bar-Asher,Aryeh Kofsky

The Nusayrīs - also known as ʿAlawīs -have been in power in Syria for the past three decades. Little is known of their origins or their long history, while their religious creeds and thought are somewhat better known. The main reason for our fragmentary knowledge of the Nusayrī religion is that, since its beginnings, it has always been the secret faith of a self-conscious elite that zealously guarded its sectarian literature. The Nusayrī-ʿAlawī faith is a clear example of a syncretistic religion. It combines and fuses elements of cults and creeds of very disparate, and remote, origins. Among these are various pagan beliefs (residues of ancient Mesopotamian and Syrian cults), as well as Persian, Christian, Gnostic, and Muslim - both Sunnī and Shīʿī - religious precepts and practices. All these components have been brought together in a syncretistic religious system that has assumed a heterodox Shīʿī garb. The present volume presents a mosaic of fundamental aspects of Nusayrī theology and liturgy. It demonstrates the complexity of Nusayrī theology and the diversity of religious thought within the Nusayrī fold.

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9004453504

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Jews and the Qur'an

By: Meir M. Bar-Asher

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Jews and the Qur'an

By: Meir M. Bar-Asher

A compelling book that casts the Qur’anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new light In this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur’an and later Islamic literature, providing needed context to those passages critical of Jews that are most often invoked to divide Muslims and Jews or to promote Islamophobia. He traces the Qur’anic origins of the protection of Jews and other minorities living under the rule of Islam, and shows how attitudes toward Jews in Shi‘i Islam are substantially different from those in Sunni Islam. Bar-Asher sheds light on the extraordinary contribution of Jewish tradition to the Muslim exegesis of the Qur’an, and draws important parallels between Jewish religious law, or halakha, and shari‘a law. An illuminating work on a topic of vital relevance today, Jews and the Qur’an offers a nuanced understanding of Islam’s engagement with Judaism in the time of Muhammad and his followers, and serves as a needed corrective to common misperceptions about Islam.

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Princeton University Press

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0691264791

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Jews and the Qur'an

By: Meir M. Bar-Asher

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Truths Desired by God

An Excursion Into the Weekly Haftarah

By: Meir Tamari

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An Excursion Into the Weekly Haftarah

By: Meir Tamari

With the mounting interest in traditional Jewish texts, classes abound in Chumash, Talmud, Tehillim, and the Megillot. Yet the books of Nevi im through which a major part of Judaism s special message is transmitted have been largely overlooked. Using the weekly haftarah as his entry, renowned author Dr. Meir Tamari tackles this challenge, offering original insights and bringing together commentators from the span of Jewish history.

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The Nusayrī-ʿAlawī Religion

The Nusayrī-ʿAlawī Religion

Jews and the Qur'an

Jews and the Qur'an

Jews and the Qur'an

Jews and the Qur'an

Truths Desired by God

Truths Desired by God

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