Description
The Struggle for Jerusalem and the Holy Land Between Judaism and Islam is a new inquiry into the Qur'an and classic Islamic sources on the people of Israel, their Torah, and their links to the Holy Land. In recent generations, the Muslim and Arab world has been suffused with publications on the subject of the people of Israel and their affinity to the Land of Israel. Most of these publications are tendentious, written with a hostile attitude toward Jews and Judaism; indeed, some of them are tainted with anti-Semitism.
The Qur'an also deals with the question of the status of Eretz Israel, the Land of Israel. Many of its exegetes, following in the tracks of Islam's holy book, have done so as well-and somewhat surprisingly, perhaps, express an approach asserting that this land is promised exclusively to the people of Israel.
About the Author
Nissim Dana (Ph. D. Dropsie College, Philadelphia) is a chairman of the Multi-Disciplinary Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at Ariel University. He has served for decades as Head of the Department for Religious Minorities in Israel's Ministry of Religions. Professor Dana taught in Bar-Ilan University (1982-2011) and Haifa University (1996-2002). Among his publications are The Druze, A Religious Community in Transition (Jerusalem-London-Montreal: Turtledove Publishers, 1980), Sefer Ha-Maspik Le'Ovdey Hashem (Kitab Kifayat al-'Abidin) of Rabbi Abraham ben Moshe ben Maimon (Jerusalem: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1989, in Hebrew), The Druze (Jerusalem: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1998, in Hebrew), and The Druze in the Middle East (Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2003).
Reviews
"I thoroughly enjoyed this book.... It is a Copernican study: pioneering, fascinating, and carefully reasoned." -Zeev Maghen, Chair, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University|"In an era in which "hearts and minds" are turned through disinformation and propaganda, through the use of shallow, unreliable channels of communication, great importance attaches to this deep, profound book". -Moshe (Bogi) Yaalon, Minister of Defense, Israel
Book Information
ISBN 9781618113795
Author Nissim Dana
Format Hardback
Page Count 262
Imprint Academic Studies Press
Publisher Academic Studies Press
The Qur'an also deals with the question of the status of Eretz Israel, the Land of Israel. Many of its exegetes, following in the tracks of Islam's holy book, have done so as well-and somewhat surprisingly, perhaps, express an approach asserting that this land is promised exclusively to the people of Israel.
About the Author
Nissim Dana (Ph. D. Dropsie College, Philadelphia) is a chairman of the Multi-Disciplinary Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at Ariel University. He has served for decades as Head of the Department for Religious Minorities in Israel's Ministry of Religions. Professor Dana taught in Bar-Ilan University (1982-2011) and Haifa University (1996-2002). Among his publications are The Druze, A Religious Community in Transition (Jerusalem-London-Montreal: Turtledove Publishers, 1980), Sefer Ha-Maspik Le'Ovdey Hashem (Kitab Kifayat al-'Abidin) of Rabbi Abraham ben Moshe ben Maimon (Jerusalem: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1989, in Hebrew), The Druze (Jerusalem: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1998, in Hebrew), and The Druze in the Middle East (Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2003).
Reviews
"I thoroughly enjoyed this book.... It is a Copernican study: pioneering, fascinating, and carefully reasoned." -Zeev Maghen, Chair, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University|"In an era in which "hearts and minds" are turned through disinformation and propaganda, through the use of shallow, unreliable channels of communication, great importance attaches to this deep, profound book". -Moshe (Bogi) Yaalon, Minister of Defense, Israel
Book Information
ISBN 9781618113795
Author Nissim Dana
Format Hardback
Page Count 262
Imprint Academic Studies Press
Publisher Academic Studies Press
