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Those that do generally reject Muhammad's proclamation of receiving divine revelations from <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> and label him instead as a <a href="/wiki/False_prophet" title="False prophet">false prophet</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References_to_Muhammad">References to Muhammad</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jewish_views_on_Muhammad&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: References to Muhammad"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the Middle Ages, it was common for <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jewish</a> writers to describe Muhammad as <i>ha-meshuggah</i> ("the madman"), a term frequently used in the Bible for those who believe themselves to be prophets.<sup id="cite_ref-Stillman1979_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stillman1979-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Maimonides">Maimonides</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jewish_views_on_Muhammad&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Maimonides"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides">Maimonides</a> referred to Muhammad as a false prophet and an insane man. In his <i><a href="/wiki/Epistle_to_Yemen" title="Epistle to Yemen">Epistle to Yemen</a></i> he wrote, "After [Jesus] arose the Madman who emulated his precursor [Jesus], since he paved the way for him. But he added the further objective of procuring rule and submission [<i>talb al-mulk</i>; pursuit of sovereignty] and he invented what was well known [Islam]."<sup id="cite_ref-Roth1994p218_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roth1994p218-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his authoritative work of law, the <i><a href="/wiki/Mishneh_Torah" title="Mishneh Torah">Mishneh Torah</a></i> (Hilkhot Melakhim 11:10–12), Maimonides indicated that, nevertheless, Muhammad was part of God's plan of preparing the world for the coming of the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Messianism" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish Messianism">Jewish Messiah</a>: "All those words of Jesus of Nazareth and of this Ishmaelite [i.e., Muhammad] who arose after him are only to make straight the path for the messianic king and to prepare the whole world to serve the Lord together. As it is said: 'For then I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech so that all of them shall call on the name of the Lord and serve him with one accord' (Zephaniah 3:9)."<sup id="cite_ref-Rudin128-129_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rudin128-129-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Obscure_and_indirect_references">Obscure and indirect references</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jewish_views_on_Muhammad&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Obscure and indirect references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Natan%27el_al-Fayyumi" title="Natan'el al-Fayyumi">Natan'el al-Fayyumi</a>, a prominent 12th-century <a href="/wiki/Yemenite_Jews" title="Yemenite Jews">Yemenite</a> rabbi and theologian, and the founder of what is sometimes called "<a href="/wiki/Jewish_philosophy#Nethan'el_al-Fayyumi" title="Jewish philosophy">Jewish Ismailism</a>," wrote in his philosophical treatise <i>Bustan al-Uqul</i> ("Garden of the minds") that God sends prophets to establish religions for other nations, which do not have to conform to the precepts of the Jewish Torah. Nethanel explicitly considered Muhammad a true prophet who was sent from Heaven with a particular message that applies to the Arabs but not to the Jews.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Al-Fayyumi's explicit acceptance of Muhammad's prophecy was rare and virtually unknown until recent times beyond his native <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Apocalyptic_literature" title="Apocalyptic literature">apocalyptic</a> <a href="/wiki/Midrash" title="Midrash">Midrash</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Secrets_of_Rabbi_Simon_ben_Yohai" title="The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai">The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai</a></i> compares Muhammad to the Jewish <a href="/wiki/Jewish_eschatology" title="Jewish eschatology">Messiah</a>. According to this text, ascribed to the famous 1st-century sage and mystic <a href="/wiki/Simeon_bar_Yochai" class="mw-redirect" title="Simeon bar Yochai">Simeon bar Yochai</a>, and thought to have been written at the beginning of the Muslim conquest or in the 8th century,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Muhammad's role as a prophet includes redeeming the Jews from the Christian ("Roman" or "Edomite") oppression and playing a positive role in the messianic process.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A number of stories from the Islamic tradition about Muhammad entered mainstream Jewish thought incidentally due to the great cultural convergence in <a href="/wiki/Al-Andalus" title="Al-Andalus">Al-Andalus</a> from the 9th to 12th centuries, known as the <a href="/wiki/Golden_age_of_Jewish_culture_in_Spain" title="Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain">Golden Age</a> of <a href="/wiki/Sephardic_Jews" title="Sephardic Jews">Iberian Jewry</a>. For example, Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Joseph_of_Polonne" title="Jacob Joseph of Polonne">Jacob Joseph of Polonne</a>, one of the early <a href="/wiki/Hasidism" class="mw-redirect" title="Hasidism">Hasidic</a> mystics, wrote that one pious man (<i>hasid</i>) taught that the internal struggle against the evil inclination is greater than external battle, quoting <a href="/wiki/Bahya_ibn_Paquda" title="Bahya ibn Paquda">Bahya ibn Paquda</a>'s popular treatise <i><a href="/wiki/Chovot_HaLevavot" title="Chovot HaLevavot">Chovot HaLevavot</a>.</i> In the <a href="/wiki/Judeo-Arabic" title="Judeo-Arabic">Judeo-Arabic</a> original version of that book, Bahya Ibn Paquda refers to both external and internal battles as <a href="/wiki/Jihad" title="Jihad">jihad</a> and the "pious man" about whom the story is told initially is Muhammad, though the author does not mention his source by name.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jewish_views_on_Muhammad&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Judaism%27s_view_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Judaism's view of Jesus">Judaism's view of Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic-Jewish_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic-Jewish relations">Islamic-Jewish relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad%27s_views_on_Jews" title="Muhammad's views on Jews">Muhammad's views on Jews</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jewish_views_on_Muhammad&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 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.cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFNorman_A._Stillman1979" class="citation book cs1">Norman A. Stillman (1979). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/jewsofarablands00stil"><i>The Jews of Arab lands: a history and source book</i></a></span>. Jewish Publication Society. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/jewsofarablands00stil/page/236">236</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8276-0198-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8276-0198-7"><bdi>978-0-8276-0198-7</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 December</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Jews+of+Arab+lands%3A+a+history+and+source+book&rft.pages=236&rft.pub=Jewish+Publication+Society&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=978-0-8276-0198-7&rft.au=Norman+A.+Stillman&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fjewsofarablands00stil&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJewish+views+on+Muhammad" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=M8o6UZ37ppUC&pg=PA255">Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism By Ibn Warraq Page 255</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vjFNPT52XjUC&pg=PA21">The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History page 21</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Roth1994p218-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Roth1994p218_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Norman Roth. <i>Jews, Visigoths, and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Cooperation and Conflict</i>, <a href="/wiki/Brill_Publishers" title="Brill Publishers">BRILL</a>, 1994, p. 218.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Rudin128-129-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Rudin128-129_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/A._James_Rudin" title="A. James Rudin">A. James Rudin</a>. <i>Christians & Jews Faith to Faith: Tragic History, Promising Present, Fragile Future</i>, Jewish Lights Publishing, 2010, pp. 128–129.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Bustan al-Ukul, by Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi,</i> edited and translated by David Levine, Columbia University Oriental Studies Vol. VI, p. 105</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Gan ha-Sekhalim</i>, ed. Kafih (Jerusalem, 1984), ch. 6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Abraham's children: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in conversation,</i> by Norman Solomon, Richard Harries, Tim Winter, T&T Clark Int'l, 2006, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-567-08161-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-567-08161-3">0-567-08161-3</a>, p. 137 <i>Netanel's work was virtually unknown beyond his native Yemen until modern times, so had little influence on later Jewish thought.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The History of Jerusalem: The Early Muslim Period</i>, by Joshua Prawer and Haggai Ben-Shammai, NYU Press, 1996, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0814766392" title="Special:BookSources/978-0814766392">978-0814766392</a>, p. 304</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Abraham's children: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in conversation,</i> by Norman Solomon, Richard Harries, Tim Winter, T&T Clark Int'l, 2006, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-567-08161-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-567-08161-3">0-567-08161-3</a>, p. 133 <i>"Nistarot" places the Muslim conquests in an eschatological context, and implies that Muhammad had a positive role to play in the messianic process.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart,</i> by Diana Lobel, University of Pennsylvania Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8122-3953-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-8122-3953-9">0-8122-3953-9</a>, p. ix "How does a perennially popular manual of Jewish piety come to be quoting Islamic traditions about the Prophet Muhammad? Muslim Spain of the tenth through twelfth century, known as the "Golden Age" of Hispano-Jewish poetry and letters, is a time of great convergence and cultural creativity."</span> </li> </ol></div></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jewish_views_on_Muhammad&oldid=1249627396">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jewish_views_on_Muhammad&oldid=1249627396</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Islam_and_Judaism" title="Category:Islam and Judaism">Islam and Judaism</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Judaism-related_controversies" title="Category:Judaism-related controversies">Judaism-related controversies</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Muhammad_and_Judaism" title="Category:Muhammad and Judaism">Muhammad and Judaism</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Religious_perspectives_on_Muhammad" title="Category:Religious perspectives on Muhammad">Religious perspectives on Muhammad</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Point_of_view" title="Category:Point of view">Point of view</a></li></ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-hidden">Hidden categories: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_with_short_description" title="Category:Articles with short description">Articles with short description</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Short_description_matches_Wikidata" title="Category:Short description matches Wikidata">Short description matches Wikidata</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 5 October 2024, at 23:24<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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