Islamic Elements in the Writings of the Jewish Scholar Suadia Gaon (d.942)

MERAL Y.

BELLETEN, cilt.80, sa.287, ss.23-41, 2016 (AHCI, Scopus, TRDizin) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 80 Sayı: 287
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Dergi Adı: BELLETEN
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.23-41
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Saadia Gaon, Naskh, Islam, Qur'an, Judeo-Arabic, Torah, Arabic
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Saadia, known as Sa'id bin Yusuf el-Fayyumi in Islamic world, plays an important role in Jewish tradition. He is the first scholar who wrote in Arabic among Jewish scholars. Saadia pioneered later Jewish scholars in transmitting Judaism via Arabic language. Having passed his entire life in Islamic civilization, Saadia used Islamic terms and expressions extensively. These uses have later become standart use of many Jewish scholars expressing Judaism in Arabic. To what extend these uses are Islamic or Arabic (linguistic) is discutable. The case can be different from one term to another. In this article, we examine each Islamic terms in Saadia's writings and evaluate them in their contexts.