Jewish-Muslim Relations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Theological Considerations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. What’s in a name? The implications of ‘Abrahamic’ for Jewish, Christian and Muslim relations

      • Carol Bakhos

      Pages 3-16

   3. The Jews of the Qur’an

      • Ednan Aslan

      Pages 17-33

   4. The Jews and the Hadith: A Contemporary Attempt at a Hermeneutic Interpretation

      • Ulvi Karagedik

      Pages 35-49

   5. Between Mythical Thought and Philosophy: Prolegomena to a Comparative Study of Jewish and Islamic Mysticism in Medieval Spain

      • Michael Ebstein

      Pages 51-63

   6. Theological Models of Religious Pluralism: Historical Precedents, Contemporary Trends, and New Possibilities

      • Jerusha Tanner Rhodes

      Pages 65-79

   7. A “Jewish-Christian-Muslim Hotchpotch”? On the “Islamic” Gospel of Barnabas and Jewish Literature

      • Franz Winter

      Pages 81-99

   8. Philosophical Perspectives on the Relationship Between Religion and Science: Averroes, Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas and Galileo

      • Francesco Malaguti

      Pages 101-117

3. Legal Considerations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Specific Aspects of Coexistence among Jews and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Between iura propria and ius commune

      • Emma Montanos Ferrín

      Pages 121-139

   3. The Restrained Policies of Charles V in Applying Legislation for Moriscos from the Kingdom of Granada

      • Yolanda Quesada Morillas

      Pages 141-157

4. Contextualized Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Diversity in Islam: The Relationship between Muslims and Jews in Israel

      • Sobhi Rayan

      Pages 161-175

   3. Jews and Muslims in Cyprus: Positive Aspects of Coexistence

      • Areti Demosthenous

      Pages 177-198

   4. Salam Shalom Barcelona, is Muslim-Jewish Dialogue Possible?

      • Zouhair El-Hairan, Rosa Martinez-Cuadros

      Pages 199-213

   5. The Meaning of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Europe for Christian Education: Potentials and Limitations of a Three-Way Conversation

      • Friedrich Schweitzer

      Pages 215-229

   6. Dietary Laws as a Means of Disentanglement and Demarcation

      • Gerhard Langer

      Pages 231-246

   7. “Integration”—Reflections on a European Concept of Minority Politics from a European-Jewish Perspective

      • Alfred Bodenheimer

      Pages 247-255

This multidisciplinary volume unites research on diverse aspects of Jewish-Muslim relations, exchanges and coexistence across time including the Abrahamic tradition enigma, Jews in the Qur’an and Hadith, Ibn al-‘Arabi and the Kabala, comparative feminist theology, Jews, Christians, Muslims and the Gospel of Barnabas, harmonizing religion and philosophy in Andalusia, Jews and Muslims in medieval Christian Spain, Israeli Jews and Muslim and Christian Arabs, Jewish-Muslim coexistence on Cyprus, Muslim-Jewish dialogues in Berlin and Barcelona, Jewish-Christian-Muslim trialogues and teleology, Jewish and Muslim dietary laws, and Jewish and Muslim integration in Switzerland and Germany. 

• Jews in the Qur’an and Hadith
• Jewish and Muslim Andalusian scholars
• Harmonizing philosophy and religion
• Coexistence
• Kabala

• University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Ednan Aslan

• Lawrence, USA

  Margaret Rausch

Ednan Aslan is Chair of Islamic Theological Studies at the University of Vienna where he is Professor of Islamic Education. 
Margaret Rausch is an independent scholar, researcher and university instructor in Religious and Islamic Studies.

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