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Quranic address to Abrahamic communities that Jiang uses to frame shared descent from one God.
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people of the book
Quranic address to Abrahamic communities that Jiang uses to frame shared descent from one God.
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Glossary
A literate religious identity that Jiang links to Quranic standardization and early Muslim/Jewish/Christian participation. The Quranic address Jiang interprets as referring to Jews and Christians around Abrahamic scripture.
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Judaism's strengths are its deep historical literature and its demand that Jews become people of the book, which Jiang links to later Jewish prominence in learned professions.
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"O people of the book, why do you argue about Abraham when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed until after him? Why..."
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"among the elite As well because of the Koran it was necessary for the elite to be literate It was the manner of you..."
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"Whereas the empire, because it's so big, it loses a lot of cohesion, okay? And again, Ibn Khudan is a major inspiration for the..."
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"...to the Christians, the Jews, and the Zoroastrians. Alright. Oh, people of the book. By this, he means both the Christians and the Jews...."
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"...a literary culture. So the Jews were expected to be people of the book. They were expected to be literate in order to practice..."
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"...Remember, the Jews are very intellectual people. They were the people of the book. And the rabbis are the most intellectual members of the..."
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