Talk:Jewish tribes of Arabia

Sadducees and prophecy on the Islam
Jimharlow99 please refrain from inserting those texts bellow claiming the Himyarite and other tribes were sadducees. The reviewed, accepted, mainstream scholarship asserts the Sadducees died out as a distinct group after the fall of Jerusalem in 70CE. Also, what has "the prophecy of Daniel" to do with a historical event? It is clearly a theological interpretation in "Rise of Islam" section. If you persist in that, this article will be protected.--Francatrippa (talk) 15:11, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

As user Jimharlow99 does not discuss the issue, nor provide independent, reliable, accepted historical sources for the claims of the presence Sadduccees in Arabia; and insists to insert a prophetic interpretation of history (!), I requested a Third Opinion on this issue.--Francatrippa (talk) 19:08, 27 March 2012 (UTC)--Francatrippa (talk) 19:08, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hey, Francatrippa! I've declined your request for a third opinion, since there's no discussion of the topic, a necessary prerequisite for a 3O. I'm not trying to be bureaucratic here; it's just that, in the nature of 3O, there's nothing we can do to help if there's no discussion to join.  The thing is, 3O is designed to provide a fresh set of eyes on a discussion that has deadlocked; 3O Wikipedians have no special authority to determine or enforce consensus whatsoever, so there's really nothing else we can do.  If you're seeing behavioral issues with this user that are preventing discussion, you might want to try the Wikiquette Assistance board; if the edit wars have gotten out of hand so much that admin intervention is needed, you can try the edit-warring admin noticeboard, although that probably shouldn't be your first resort.  Thanks, and good luck! Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 19:26, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tip --Francatrippa (talk) 19:28, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Yup
Because you know how much the Arabs would have to gain in a majority Muslim society by converting to Judaism. I mean, Hollywood was just so powerful in the 1100's A.D. and it would have been so convenient to convert to Judaism back then to try to get in on the slice of the pie eh?

Honestly ashkenazi if you are going to lie, stop being such retards.

Disregard that, you know why. 67.148.120.105 (talk) 11:53, 10 December 2009 (UTC)stardingo747

Himyarites
The following text is historically accurate:


 * "In abt 400 CE, Himyarite King tubba Abu Karib As'ad Kamil (385-420 CE), a convert to Sadduceean Judaism, led military expeditions into central Arabia and expanded his empire to encompass most of the Arabian Peninsula. His army had marched north to battle the Aksumites who had been fighting for control of Yemen for a hundred years. The Aksumites were only expelled from the region when the newly-Jewish king rallied Jews together from all over Arabia, with pagan allies. The relationship between the Sadducee Himyarite Kings and the polytheistic Arab tribes strengthened when, under the royal permission of Tubba' Abu Karib As'ad, Qusai ibn Kilab (400–480 CE) reconstructed the Ka'aba from a state of decay, and had the Arab al-Kahinan (Cohanim) build their houses around it.  Qusai ibn Kilab was the great-great- grandfather of Shaiba ibn Hashim (Abdul-Mutallib, who had a Jewish wife).  Shaiba ibn Hashim was fifth in the line of descent to Muhammad, and attained supreme power at Mecca.  Qusai ibn Kilab is among the ancestors of Sahaba and the progenitor of the Banu Quraish. When Qusai came of age, a man from the tribe of Banu Khuza'a named Hulail (Hillel) was the trustee of the Kaaba, and the Na'sa (Nasi) - authorized to calculate the calendar. Qusai married his daughter and, according to Hulail's will, obtained Hulail's rights to the Ka'aba. Hulail, according to arabian tradition was a member of the Banu Jurhum.  Banu Jurhum was a sub-group of the Banu Qahtani from whom the Himyarites originally descend."

It was deleted from the original article by a user without comment or discussion.--Jimharlow99 (talk) 06:14, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Why do you claim that they followed Sadduceean Judaism and not Rabanite Judaism?


 * So far as Judaism was concerned it found its place in the peninsula not so much by conversion as by immigration of the Jews into it. This immigration took place mainly at two periods – one after the Babylonian occupation of Palestine in 587 B.C. and for a second time after the Roman conquest of the land and the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus in 70 A.C. A number of Jewish tribes migrated into Arabia and were settled at places like Yathrib (Madina), Khaybar, Tayma’ and Fadak. Not that they remained completely inactive in the matter of propagation of their faith. According to tradition they made a convert of the Himyarite king (Tubba’) Abu Karib As’ad Kamil (385-420 A.C) when he visited Madina in the course of a northern expedition and sent with him two rabbis to propagate Judaism in Yaman.[34] The extent of the success of these Jewish missionaries in Yaman is not clear; but a descendant of As’ad Kamil’s, Dhui Nuwas, proved to be a vigorous champion of Judaism. He persecuted the Christians not only of Yaman but even massacred the Christian community of Najran, throwing a large number of them in a deep ditch full of fire[35]. His intolerance brought about a joint Byzantine-Abyssinian intervention in Yaman leading to the end of Dhu Nuwas’s rule and the beginning of the second Abyssinian occupation of the land under Abrahah. As noted earlier, Abrahah determined to Christianize the whole land, built a gigantic cathedral at San’a’ and led a campaign against Makka in 570-7 1 A.C. to destroy the Ka’ba. ( Ibn Hisham, I, pp. 26-27). --Jimharlow99 (talk) 00:27, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The zealous forced conversions were not emblematic of any sect of Jews outside of Zadokite/Sadducees. --Jimharlow99 (talk) 00:27, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Ok, quite a big story. But (un)fortunately there is not reliable source on Sadducee tribes in Arabian peninsula.--Francatrippa (talk) 12:24, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Not just a story, but since you have a problem with Jewish texts, I'll use an Islamic Text:


 * The Qur'an says the Jews of Yathrib thought that Ezra was the "son of God". Ezra was a metaphorical reference to another name for Nehemiah ben Hushiel.  But what is important to you is as follows:
 * Al Jahiz refers to a Jewish group termed Saduqiyya (Sadducees) which are found in the Yemen, Syria, and Byzantine territory. He says their name stems from "a man whose name was Zadok (the student of Antigonus of Sokho), and that they held that 'Uzayr[Ezra] was the son of God.
 * Abū ʿUthmān ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Fuqaymī al-Jāḥiẓ [Al-Jāḥiẓ] Birth: c. 776, Place: Basra, Death: 869, Place: Basra is the primary source of info regarding the Sadducees of Yathrib. The Rabbinic canon of Judaism carries forward the premise of the Mishnah's Judaism speaking of Jews as a social entity treated as a political one as well, of the people of “Israel” classified as a state.  This is important - Rabbinic Jews cannot exist until the Canon is cemented...and the Talmud did not become a part of the Canon until late 6th century.  Until this time, Jews of the Yathrib were Sadducees by default...in conclusion, Rabbinic Jews did not exist until a Canon existed.  Karaism had not yet emerged, and the Essenes remained in Eretz Israel.  Pharisaic Jews were too few in number to muster tribal configurations therefore they stayed in Eretz Yisrael as well.  So you see, you are deleting text from Wikipedia pages without fully understanding why you deleted them to begin with.  Your comments and demands are wholly off-base.


 * Ibn Hazm records ''Al Saduqiyyh: This sect associates itself with a person called Saduq (Zadok). Differing with all other Jews, they regard Uzayr (Ezra) as the son of God. They live in Yemen. (Ibn Hazm's Kitab al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa wa al-Nihal) - they Are Himyarites.


 * I'll codify the Quranic references to al-Saduqiyyah [yes, read 'Sidiqi'].

A few comments from someone whose knowledge of the subject is pretty limited: Just because a movement "died out" doesn't prevent some later group claiming to adhere to it, nor does it prevent some observer of a later group from judging that its beliefs and practices are similar to those of the "extinct" movement. So I find no contradiction between the two claims made here. Also, there is some amount of scholarly opinion like this from John Reeves: "Other evidence also points to the possibility that "Sadducees," or perhaps better "Zadokites," persisted as an identifiable religious sect during late antiquity." Reeves goes on to give some possible examples. Another thing to note, as Reeves does, is that some writers referred to Karaites as "Sadducees". I read somewhere else that Rambam did that. It seems to be true that writers about some of these Jewish tribes called them Sadducees and that could be mentioned with proper citations. What it actually meant in terms of actual connection to the Jerusalem Sadducees, I think nobody actually knows. This article is relevant here too. Zerotalk 13:32, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Reliability of source
I challenge the reliability of EretzYisroel.org. As well as being a political advocacy site, the article being cited is written by the webmaster and so counts as self-published. Does anyone wish to debate this? Zerotalk 15:28, 13 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello, No problem - I contacted Rabbi Joseph E. Katz and received the reference in qurestion:
 * The History of al-Tabari Vol. 5, The Sasanids, the Byzantines, the Lakhmids, and Yemen, C. E. Bosworth - Translator, SUNY series in Near Eastern Studies

I also dismiss the EretzYisroel.org as a source. Books by professor Michael Lecker are good references on the topic. Robert G. Hoyland is another professional historian. None of them record the presence of Sadducees among Arabian tribes. Please, do not insert original research unless you can source your claims in the mainstream, reviewed and accepted scholarship. --Francatrippa (talk) 12:39, 23 February 2012 (UTC)--Francatrippa (talk) 12:39, 23 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia makes no distinction among authors - if you are here to challenge the quality of "The History of al-Tabari Vol. 5, The Sasanids, the Byzantines, the Lakhmids, and Yemen, C. E. Bosworth - Translator, SUNY series in Near Eastern Studies" as a seminal work in this area I can only say that you are not fully informed on the subject to be able make such assertions. As I mentioned previously, Rabbinic Judaism did not exist until the canon of Judaism was finalized.  The Himyarites were Sadducees by default.  (See comments in prior section).

Islamic theological content in "Rise of Islam" section
I've added the POV tag due to the theological content of this section. It presents an interpretation of the rise of Islam as one based on pre-existing Jewish prophecy - which is all well and good, but if the prophetic/theological underpinning of the disappearance of the Jewish tribes is to be emphasized, then that argument needs to be stated explicitly.

This sentence, for example: "In 622 CE, Prophet Mohammed leveraged Jewish-Arab despondency at successive military defeats, abandonment by Persian Jews, loss of Jerusalem (again), the Murder of the Exilarch Nehemiah ben Hushiel, and the renewed opposition of the Banu Quraish, set out for Taif" has no reference, and is very argumentative/theoretical - the preceding paragraph also lacks sources.

The section also fails to explicate the military aspect of Muhammad's conquest, and the political aspect (Dhimmitude, etc).

I will attempt to re-write it when I get the time.

- Ledenierhomme (talk) 15:19, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

I think you also need to remove the word "Prophet" in front of Muhammad for POV reasons —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.65.33.33 (talk) 04:36, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

I am removing the POV tag since Ledenierhomme has been banned for vandalism and abuse. Jimharlow99 (talk) 22:07, 24 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm working on that section. There is a lot of POV. I removed a teleological reference to the prophecy of Daniel (?).--Francatrippa (talk) 12:20, 23 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I am going to revert your deletion because the Prophecy of Daniel is precisely the argument used by Salman al-Farsi, among others, to champion the goals of Prophet Muhammed (s.a.w.) in Yathrib. this prophecy is vitally important to understanding the political dynamics of the Yathrib before and after the emergence and supremacy of ISlam in Yathrib. Jimharlow99 (talk) 22:38, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Re: contemporary Jewish conversion
Greetings,

I note that the last sentence of the section entitled "Judaized Arabs" is, as of May 20, 2013, as follows: "— in fact Contemporary Judaism actively discourages conversion and converts even after conversions have occurred."

I wonder if the capitalization of the word Contemporary is meant here to mark some special group, since — despite a great deal of variants of current Judaism (— I had assumed "Contemporary" to refer to current times) — the standard Jewish attitude toward conversion and converts, both historically and currently, and regardless of denomination, is not well described by the sentence above, as may be seen here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_to_Judaism#Relations_between_Jews_and_proselytes (whose citations #s 43-48 see), and in Shemot ("Exodus") 22:20, Vayikra ("Leviticus") 19:33 and as explicated by Rambam in the Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Mechira 14:15.

There may exist "contemporary Jews" who discourage conversion (absolutely, as opposed to in the form of a traditional 3-time discouragement as a ritual test of sincerity) and/or discriminate against converts for whatever reason (though it is expressly forbidden to do so), but to claim this as normative for "Contemporary Judaism" minimally requires the citation of at least one counter-argument to the sources here cited, and, in my opinion, is a mis-characterization that should be removed entirely, whether or not replaced by a statement on the subject based on more accurate sources.

Thanks, Lyrelyre (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:59, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Unreliable sources
These two sources are unreliable: Mitchell Bard's "Idiot's Guide" (cited via JVL), and the EretzYisroel.org article. Both need replacing. I am going to delete text sourced to them if this situation is not fixed soon. Zerotalk 15:06, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Denial of Koran? Query
The Islamic fundamentalist line is that all Jews in the mid East are foreign invaders, colonialists. However, denying the continuing presence of powerful tribes of Jews in the Middle East as late as the 600s is actually denial of the Koran. Are there debates about this? Profhum (talk) 05:50, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

The Quran does not say this, just Hadith's who mention Jewish tribes in Arabia but it doesn't say if they were Judaized Arabs or actual Jews. Akmal94 (talk) 23:44, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

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We need some primary sources on Shallum Ben Hushiel
Googling this name mostly brings up fringe websites and the footnote by his name year isn't any source but a claim he's the same person as a bunch of other people.--JaredMithrandir (talk) 04:27, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

References are missing or mislabeled
The references in this article are super off, and I have no idea how to go about fixing them.

In the last section, "Rise of Islam," the references go up to number 22, but there are only 17 references listed. I suspect that some of the references may have been removed from the reference list, but I'm not sure if it was only references 18-22 that were removed from the end of the list. If any references were removed in the middle of the reference list, that would throw off the order and mean a bunch are mislabeled.

I'm not a frequent editor, so maybe someone else can decipher this issue.

NomNomNomDePlume (talk) 19:14, 14 March 2021 (UTC)