Similarities Between Judaism And Islam

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Judasism and early islam are similar relgions, that were seperated with one diffrence belief that is while islam viewed mohammed as a prophet of god judasim on the other hand disowned muhammed( stillman 10). Morever another religion named chrisitianity prayed and considered jesus as the son of god however judasim disagreed by claiming jesus was merely a prophet god and that there is only and only one god.Their realtionship between the rise of christianty and judaism is similar to the relationship between islam and judasim as the all share the same god but just different prophets.
The story of judaism and early islam begins when Muhammad arrived in Medina, muhammed started to preach the word of allah around Medina, his followers started to increase daily. However, when mohammed was trying to assimuate with the jews community according to stillman the jews “rejected”(10) muhammed.After several conflicts and an attempt of meeting with jews. Muhammed finally resolves the conflict by outlining a …show more content…

However the protection didn't come for free, the jews and Christians were forced to pay taxes for their protection.further, more early Islam's koran passes the law on how the people of the book should be treated. For instance, in stillman book the koran said:”fight againt those--who believe not in the last day--until they pay tribute of hand, and are humbled”(150). In other words, koran belived that jews should be punished for the murder of the prophet(jesus). In short, the koran has used the murder of a prophet for a reason to send an anti-jewish propoganda to it’s followers. Even though the jewish community still lived under the islam rule they were still considered as under class because of their