إشكالية خلق العالم في الفكر الديني اليهودي : سعديا الفيومي نموذجا

Abstract EN

This research will address the question of creating the world in Jewish religious thought in general, and according to Saadia Al-Fayoumi in particular.

Being the doctrinal foundation upon which most other doctrinal issues are based in general in all religions and cultures, the issue of creating the world is one of the most important issues that religions dealt with in general.

Past and present, researchers have been busy researching this issue.

The question still remains about the beginning and destiny in every religion and thought.

Everyone interprets this according to their belief and understanding.

In Jewish religious thought, the texts differed in the interpretation of the creation process, due to the different narrations contained in the Torah, and accordingly the interpretations given to these narrations differed too.

Saadia al-Fayumi was one of those who studied this issue, examining it within the framework of a careful approach that combines reason and text, where text overruled reason in some instances, to indicate his adherence to the text.

To indicate the compatibility of text with reason, he resorted to interpretation in some positions.

Born and raised in an Arab Islamic environment, he was influenced by the Islamic theological approach; so he benefited from the scholars of theology in Islam, and was able to use their method to defend his belief and thought in the issue of creating the world.

There is much similarity between Saadia Al-Fayoumi's opinions and those of Islamic theology scholars, whether in what he mentioned as evidence for his opinion on the creation of the world, or in his responses to the Jews and others who opposed him, whom he mentioned in details in his writings.

For this reason, this study, which dealt with the question of creating the world in the Jewish religious thought in general, and to “Saadia al-Fayumi” in particular, came to being.

He is known for his religious inclination.