tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post8630302776850179846..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: How did Morocco get from massacres to tolerance?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-1397121981452153182012-04-19T07:38:55.143+01:002012-04-19T07:38:55.143+01:00Sylvia, you point out just one more discrepancy in...Sylvia, you point out just one more discrepancy in an article already based far too much on hearsay and wishful thinking.bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-17224784722077373782012-04-18T23:08:24.832+01:002012-04-18T23:08:24.832+01:00Addendum: the Qarawyyn became a degree-granting Un...Addendum: the Qarawyyn became a degree-granting University in 1947.sylvianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-52267763390992600382012-04-18T23:06:19.696+01:002012-04-18T23:06:19.696+01:00"Maimonides, the philosopher who studied and ..."Maimonides, the philosopher who studied and perhaps taught at the local university, the Qarawiyyin, saw his own teacher put to death here, so the head of the Fes community has told me."<br /><br />This is something that we should never let pass unchallenged. <br /><br /> There isn't a shred of evidence that Maimonides ever studied at the Qarawyyn, and that for many reasons. There is, however, plenty of evidence that he didn't, based on his own writings and on his own life.<br />In fact, it would have been suicidal for a fugitive from Andalusia to go to the area of the Qarawyyn. he would have stuck lout like a sore thumb. The Qarawyyn, as it name indicates, was a mosque founded by Kairouanese who came to that spot in previous centuries, with a school that prepared Muslim theologians and offered them elements of general knowledge, but only in as much as it had to do with Islamic jurispruence.<br /> <br />Beside, scholars of that time of Maimonides' magnitude, whether Jewish or Muslims, didn't study in schools but with teachers in their own homes and studied books. <br /><br /><br />Enough with this lie.sylvianoreply@blogger.com