Hebrew professor from Saudi Arabia wrote a special essay for a journal at Tel Aviv University • Prof. Muhammad Al-Gharban claims that Muhammad's image was distorted because of a biased translation

• The King and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia gave their consent?

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Silent normalization with Arab countries continues: Today (Monday) Tel Aviv University announced that a senior researcher and lecturer in Hebrew from Saudi Arabia has published an article in an Israeli journal for the first time. The article itself tries, according to the author, to improve the image of the Prophet of Islam Muhammad in the eyes of the Jews. 

The article was published in the journal "Contact" for the history of the Jewish press against the background of the voices in Saudi Arabia and the World Islamic League for the use of interfaith understanding for cooperation with the Jewish community and Israel for peace.

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In the article, Prof. Muhammad al-R'ban, who is in charge of Hebrew studies in the Department of Modern Languages ​​at King Saud Riyadh University, claims that the Prophet Muhammad had good relations with the Jews and clashed with them on a purely political rather than religious basis. Accordingly, the title of the article is: "Contribution to Improving the Image of the Prophet Muhammad in the Eyes of the Israeli Public: Muhammad's Covenants and Correspondence with the Jews of the Arabian Peninsula."

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According to al-R'ban in the introduction to the article: "Misconceptions about the history of Islam proposed by Mizrahis in the previous century - some of which were written in Hebrew - led to a misunderstood understanding of writings, a wrong methodology and negative influences on modern Hebrew-speaking scholars."

"The accusation of the religion of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad of incitement and racism against the Jewish tribes in Hijaz is a false accusation," the researcher claimed, "Muhammad treated all social groups in al-Madinah and other places that were under his control, regardless of race and religion. The distortions in research so far stem. "Because his letters to the Jews were never translated into Hebrew." The researcher also says that the Jewish public's lack of understanding of Muhammad's thinking stems from a poor or biased translation, or the lack of a Hebrew translation at all of the Prophet Muhammad's letters to the Jewish tribes of the Arabian Peninsula and the text of the covenants you made with them.

Al-R'ban is the head of the Hebrew department at King Saud University in Riyadh, where it is possible to study for a bachelor's degree in Hebrew as part of the Department of Modern Languages ​​and Translation.

Prof. Raanan Rein, head of the Rosenfeld Institute at Tel Aviv University, emphasized that the importance of the article is first and foremost that for the first time a senior Saudi researcher chooses to incorporate a contemporary academic article in an Israeli academic journal, in order to remove partitions and bring hearts closer together. "I sincerely hope that academic cooperation is another step on the path to economic and political cooperation," he said.