Julian Barnett
Hidden Islamic Sects of Jerusalem, Part 2
Summary
Julian Barnett continues his discussion on the Islamic sects of Jerusalem, focusing on a few specific sects and their way of life. Part 2 of 2.
Julian Barnett
Julian Barnett is a teacher, collector, tour guide, and writer with a specialist interest in ultra-orthodoxy within the various faiths. For the last 35 years, he has been investigating and documenting the most extreme sects of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim worlds. His experiences and travels were serialized in the Jerusalem Report and also broadcast on BBC Radio Four Religion. Outside of his full-time history teaching post at Southbank International School, Portland Place, London, Julian lectures at numerous venues around the UK and beyond. In 2013 Julian was a joint winner of the National Teacher of the Year Award.
Yes, as you can imagine, it is extremely closely watched by the Israeli authorities. But there is a Wahhabi presence there and I’ve met some of them. Yes. They’re allowed to come to Jerusalem on extremely limited time visas. Something like, you know, four or five day visas. Pilgrim’s visas and they’re very strictly controlled. But there is, there is a Wahhabi presence in Jerusalem. Yes.
Torah narratives. Well there is much confluence of stories. These, you know, where Abraham almost sacrifices his son Isaac or his son Ishmael. The floods. The story of Jesus. Well that’s not Torah of course. That’s New Testament. Many of the stories of Abraham. Many of the stories of Isaac and Jacob. So many, many Torah narratives and personalities are in the Quran. And many of the Jewish personalities within the Torah are prophets within Islam. And I of course mentioned a couple of them today. Noah being one such example. Ibraham being another. Miriam being another. The sister of Moses. Musa, Moses himself known as Musa in the Quran being very important as well.