The Schlomo Dov Goitein’s “political” symbiosis in the secrets of Simon Ben Yohai. A Qur’anic reappraisal for a Jewish apocalyptic source on the reflecting of an early Islamic background
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2022
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This paper examines the concept of symbiosis in Islamic history as developed by Schlomo Dov Goitein, the 20th century Jewish German scholar in the area of Jewish and Arabic studies and discusses its application to the identity sourcing of Prophet Muhammad in particular. The aim of the study is to review the historical outline briefly on the background and formation of “symbiosis” preceding and in the aftermath of Goitein’s conceptualization and context, following a qualitative research approach with an intertextual criticism to his references and discussing their possible philological aspects in his mindset. The study found that, while the Islamic historical sources presented the relations between Jews and Muslim in Madina period of Islam as negative, in Goitein’s works, the Jewish perception of early Islamic history is positively grounded on a mid-eight century Jewish messianic-apocalyptical text, namely, The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai as traditionally understood in Judaism for describing Ishmaelites as the savior of Jews from Christian oppression. This finding seems to be in explicit contradistinction to the concept of innovative “creative symbiosis” with subversion of historical experience.
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Islamic History, Symbiosis, Jews and Arabs, Islam and Judaism, Apocalypse
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Bussecon Review of Social Sciences
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Çolak, Y. ve Gulec, S. C. (2022). The Schlomo Dov Goitein’s “political” symbiosis in the secrets of Simon Ben Yohai. A Qur’anic reappraisal for a Jewish apocalyptic source on the reflecting of an early Islamic background. Bussecon Review of Social Sciences, 4(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.36096/brss.v4i1.314
