tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561249004966522983.post2043163098529615070..comments2024-03-28T14:38:09.470+00:00Comments on Patrick Comerford: Anglican Studies (9.1): Anglicanism, ecumenical engagement and inter-religious dialoguePatrick Comerfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00558394038241172440noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561249004966522983.post-88813398136116051592023-01-30T13:52:26.650+00:002023-01-30T13:52:26.650+00:00* 1066: execution of Rab Shmuel haNagid and ‘Garan...* 1066: execution of Rab Shmuel haNagid and ‘Garanda Massacre’ – 4-5,000 Jews died. The razing of the entire Jewish quarter in the Andalucian city of Granada.<br /><br />* 1013: Under Umayyad rule,<br />The inhabitants of Cordoba, including Jews were massacred and looted. It is said that 2000 of them were murdered.<br /><br />* 1033: Fez, Morocco, pogrom, Muslims massacres more than 6000 Jews and took away their women and robbed their belongings.<br /><br />* Ibn Tumart (c.1080–c.1130), who, according to the medieval sage Abraham ibn Daud, undertook a campaign of extermination against the Jews, when he “decreed apostasy on the Jews, saying, ‘come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.’ thus he wiped out every last ‘name and remnant’ of them from all his empire, from the city of Silves at the end of the world until the city of al-Mahdiya.”<br /><br />* 1172+: The Almohads, who had taken control of much of Islamic Iberia by 1172, were far more extremists than the Almoravides, and they treated the dhimmis harshly. Jews and chr. were expelled from Morocco and Islamic Spain.<br /><br />* Maimonides (1138–1204) 'Epistle to the Yemenites', consoling the Jews of Yemen for the tortures they suffered and exhorting them to remain true to their faith , no matter what the cost. Despite the remoteness of their abode , the Yemenite Jews never lost contact with the spiritual movements in world Jewry. Their religious life was based entirely upon the Talmud.<br /><br />* 1465: Fez, Morocco, Muslim subjects overthrew the last Marinid ruler who had appointed many Jews to high positions. Grudges leading to massacre the entire Jewish community of the city. The community was temporarily converted but soon reverted to Judaism.<br /><br />* 1517: Safed, Israel, Jews were evicted from their homes, robbed and plundered, and they fled naked to the villages.<br /><br />* Testimony by Rabbi Obadiah of Bertinoro c. 1445 – c. 1515:<br /><br />Schwab, M., Bertinoro, O. (1866). Voyages: Lettres d’Obadia de Bertinoro, 1487-89. France: au bureau des Archives israëlites.<br />Page 23: "In general, they appear in all Islamism as poor and deorived of everything . They have shabby dress like beggars, and they bend their backs to the Muslims."<br />[Aka oppressive apartheid Dhimmitude].<br /><br />* Some “40,000 Jews lived in (Eretz Israel in the area of) Caesarea alone at the Arab conquest, after which all trace of them is lost.”<br /><br />* 1679–1680: Imam of Yemen (Rassid dynasty) – Jews of nearly all cities and towns in Yemen exiled to a remote desert and left to die.<br /><br />* 1790 Jews massacred in Tetuán, in Morocco.<br /><br />* 1828, in Baghdad, a cycle of violence and pillage began in Safed.<br /><br />* 1834 looting of Safed… 33 days of horror!<br /><br />* 1840-1908: after the Damascus affair – blood libel, riots and massacres of Jews were carried out in Aleppo (1850, 1875), Damascus (1840, 1848, 1890), Beirut (1862, 1874), Dayr al-Qamar (1847), Jerusalem (1847), Cairo (1844, 1890, 1901–02), Mansura (1877), Alexandria (1870, 1882, 1901–07), Port Said (1903, 1908), Damanhur (1871, 1873, 1877, 1891), Istanbul (1870, 1874), Buyukdere (1864), Kuzguncuk (1866), Eyub (1868), Edirne (1872), Izmir (1872, 1874).<br /><br />* 1864: Solica (Sulaika) Hachuel – The Moroccan Teenager Who Died for Her Jewish Faith.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com