TRACING AND STUDYING THE SAMARITANS IN ISLAMIC RESOURCES

Abstract

This research studies the Samaritans depending on the Islamic resources and then comparing them to the Samaritans resources and to the Old and New Testaments along to contemporary studies. The study aims at comparing between the old Islamic resources and the modern ones about the history of Samaria and their beliefs. The study used the inductive, historical, descriptive, analytical and critical method. The researcher traced back the translated Samaritan Torah beside the old testament (Torah) and the New Testament (Gospel). The results of the study: The Islamic scholars' care about studying religions and the variant sects of which they mentioned the Samaria's' beliefs in angels, prophets, the day of judgement and the Jinn, in addition to the differences between Samaritan Torah and the Hebrew one. Once more they mentioned Gerizim mountain, although its name differs in some sources. Ibn Khaldun  and Al-Magrizi were considered among the first to mention the origin of the derivation of the name of Samaria followed by Ibn Tamiyah who compared between the Samaria and the Rafidah on several issues.Recommendations: To make more research of the other religious opinions in the present and in the past to undertake a critical analytical study of the Hebrew Torah through the Samaritan Torah.