Aḥmad Muṣṭafā Ṭāshkubrīzāde’s (d. 968/1561) polemical tract against Judaism
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https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2008.v29.i1.50Keywords:
Muslim polemics against Judaism, Bible, Ottoman Empire, Aḥmad Muṣṭafā Ṭāshkubrīzāde, Ibn Abī ‘Abd al-DayyānAbstract
This article deals with a short polemical tract against Judaism written by the well-known Ottoman scholar Aḥmad Muṣṭafā Ṭāshkubrīzāde (d. 968/1560). The author uses the same arguments known to us from medieval polemics, viz. that the Torah, which was abrogated by Islam, contains references to the Prophet Muḥammad, despite the fact that it was tampered with by the Jews. In addition to the Bible, Ṭāshkubrīzāde quotes a number of later Jewish sources that add an important dimension to his tract. After a brief introduction in which the possibility of the author's indebtedness to Ibn Abī ‘Abd al-Dayyān, a Jewish convert to Islam, is discussed, an edition and translation of the text are provided.
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