The Struggle for Jerusalem and the Holy Land

The Struggle for Jerusalem and the Holy Land Between Judaism and Islam is a new inquiry into the Qur’an and classic Islamic sources on the people of Israel, their Torah, and their links to the Holy Land. In recent generations, the Muslim and Arab world has been suffused with publications on the subject of the people of Israel and their affinity to the Land of Israel. Most of these publications are tendentious, written with a hostile attitude toward Jews and Judaism; indeed, some of them are tainted with anti-Semitism.

The Qur’an also deals with the question of the status of Eretz Israel, the Land of Israel. Many of its exegetes, following in the tracks of Islam’s holy book, have done so as well—and somewhat surprisingly, perhaps, express an approach asserting that this land is promised exclusively to the people of Israel.