What is Judeo-Islamic Civilization?
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Liran Yadgar [+]
University of Oklahoma
Liran Yadgar (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is the Hebrew language lecturer and coordinator at the University of Oklahoma. His area of expertise is the history of Jews in the premodern Middle East. Prior to the University of Oklahoma, he served as a postdoctoral scholar at Yale University, UCLA, and Oklahoma State University, and taught Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Muhlenberg College.
Description
Judeo-Islamic civilization is a concept that describes the relationships between Judaism and Islam with respect to religious texts, language, literature, law, ritual, sacred spaces, theology, philosophy, mysticism, arts, and sciences, from the days of the Prophet Muhammad to today. More particularly, however, it refers to the Jewish-Islamic encounter between the seventh to the thirteenth centuries. Prominent examples include references to Jews, the Hebrew Bible, and Jewish religious law in the Qur’an and other early Islamic materials (usually termed as the “the Jewish influence on Islam”) on the one hand, and the development of Jewish philosophy, theology, and Hebrew poetry under the “influence” of Islam on the other hand.