Yehuda D. Nevo (1932 – 12 February 1992) was a Middle Eastern archeologist living in Israel. He died after a long battle with cancer in 1992.

Research

Nevo discovered Kufic inscriptions in the Negev desert in Israel, four hundred of which were published in Ancient Arabic Inscriptions from the Negev. This led him and Judith Koren, a librarian at the University of Haifa, to re-examine the origins of Islam, and early Islamic history.

They fundamentally doubt the historicity of Islamic traditional accounts of early Islam, thus adhering to the Revisionist School of Islamic Studies. Nevo and Koren co-authored a work called Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State, which presents a theory of the origins and development of the Islamic state and religion. According to them, the Arabs conquered the Near East with a mixture of pre-Islamic pagan and "Indeterminate Monotheistic" beliefs.[1] The Arab's beliefs were modified in contact with the Jewish-Christian monotheism they encountered in the conquered land. Nevo's research cast doubts on the historicity of the traditional narrative of Muhammad as a prophet and the traditional history of the Quran.[2]

Some of Nevo's work is also published in the book Quest for the Historical Muhammad, edited by Ibn Warraq.

Publications

  • Nevo, Yehuda D. (1990). "The Origins of the Muslim Descriptions of the Jahili Meccan Sanctuary", Journal of Near Eastern Studies, no. 1
  • Nevo, Yehuda D. (1991). Pagans and herders: a re-examination of the Negev runoff cultivation systems in the Byzantine and early Arab periods, IPS, Negev, Israel, ISBN 965-435-000-9
  • Nevo, Yehuda D.; Cohen, Zemira; Heftman, Dalia eds. (1993). Ancient Arabic inscriptions from the Negev, IPS, Negev, Israel, ISBN 965-435-001-7
  • Nevo, Yehuda D.; Koren, Judith (2000). "Methodological Approaches to Islamic Studies". The Quest for the Historical Muhammad. New York: Prometheus Books. pp. 420–443.
  • Nevo, Yehuda D.; Koren, Judith (2003). Crossroads to Islam: the origins of the Arab religion and the Arab state, Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, ISBN 1-59102-083-2

References

  1. ^ Nevo, Yehuda D. (2003). Crossroads to Islam : the origins of the Arab religion and the Arab state. Judith Koren, Negev Archaeological Project for the Study of Ancient Arab Desert Cultures. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. p. 207. ISBN 1-59102-083-2. OCLC 52040969.
  2. ^ Cook, David (1 February 2022). "Review of Crossroads to Islam". Middle East Forum.
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