Medieval Muslim Polemics Against the Jewish Scriptures


Camilla Adang is a theologist working at Tel Aviv University's Arabic and Islamic Studies department. She has many studies on Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In this context, she made many analyzes on the books, scholars and religious groups of divine religions. Especially her works on Ibn Hazm, Zahiries, Karaitas and Mu’tazila are remarkable. Although Adang has many studies on Islam and comparative divine religions, since her works are not translated into Turkish, they are not known much. Our aim in this translation is to draw attention to the importance of the text on the one hand and to try to increase the recognition of Adang on the other. Our translation is about the destruction of the Bible. Adang presented the falsification chronologically to us with the gaze of scholars. In this context, she is; Ali b. Rabban al-Tabarî analyzed Ibn Qutayba, al-Tabarî, al-Maqdisî and Ibn Hazm. The first person she dealt with was Ibn Rabban. In The Islamic Encyclopedia only has a name about he. There is nothing else. Therefore, translation becomes important. With this work of Adang, we have information about the identity, work and method of Ibn Rabban. One of the remarkable points about him is the claim that Adang was a Muslim because of the taxes applied in the period related to him. In the study, Adang analyzed this issue. One of the prominent issues in the study is the attitude of five information dealing with distortion. The first three of these scholars are; Ibn Rabban, Ibn Qutayba and Tabari claimed that the dissolution was only in interpretation. Maqdisî and İbn Hazm also argued that the text was falsified. However, both of them it was seen that they refer to the verses that they thought were referring to Muhammad. This resource, which I received when I wrote my doctoral dissertation, was published as a chapter in the book titled “Muslim Perceptions of Other Religions” published by Jacques Wardenburg and translated to Turkish by us.I hope that the translation will contribute to the readers and the world of knowledge. I also believe that it will be useful to translate the author's further work.


Keywords


Kalam, Distorted, Bible, Islam, Judaism

Author : İrem CEYHAN -Camille ADANG
Number of pages: 113-132
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.41464
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Turkish Studies-Comparative Religious Studies
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