Religious Approach to Extremism: A Comparative Study of Jewish and Islamic Sacred Texts

Dr. Muhammad Khubaib; Sidrah Shoaib; Muhammad Umair

Religious Approach to Extremism: A Comparative Study of Jewish and Islamic Sacred Texts

Authors

Dr. Muhammad Khubaib Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4641-3666
Sidrah Shoaib Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Fauji Foundation College, Rawalpindi
Muhammad Umair PhD Scholar Islamic Studies, University of Sargodha

Keywords:

Religions, Extremism, Islam, Judaism, sacred texts

Abstract

Nowadays Islam is focused as an extremist religion and a group of western thinkers and media is portraying Islamic teachings as war mongering extremist revelations. In this paper we will take a view of sacred texts of Islam and Judaism and analyze their approach towards extremism and practical context by using scientific primary and secondary documental research methodology. The reason of taking Judaism into research with Islam is that Judaism is the oldest Semitic religion and Jews have a hold over world media and economy. It concludes that if the extremism is related to the sacred texts and prophets then Judaism has a lot of sacred text which call upon extremism.

Published

2018-06-30

How to Cite

Dr. Muhammad Khubaib, Sidrah Shoaib, and Muhammad Umair. 2018. “Religious Approach to Extremism: A Comparative Study of Jewish and Islamic Sacred Texts”. Al-Qamar 1 (1):107-22. https://alqamarjournal.com/index.php/alqamar/article/view/30.