About the history of the development of prayer and Islamic rituals [a comparative study between Jewish prayer, Islamic prayer, Christian Sunday prayer, and Islamic Friday prayer], authored by: Eugene Metfouk | Carl Peek

It becomes clear to us from what the professor Dr. Ougen Mitfok says that if we conduct an in-depth comparison between Islamic law and Jewish law, there is a significant similarity between the two systems, and this similarity is not limited to isolated aspects that have been repeatedly highlighted before, but entire groups of perceptions and consequently rulings of Islamic law are close to Jewish perceptions and rulings to the extent that this convergence may have arisen independently, and moreover, the newer school of thought, which is Islamic, must have adopted the older school, which is Jewish. This is not limited to Islamic law only, as was the case in the time of Prophet Muhammad, but also includes the development and shaping that it took afterwards, which we can follow through its historical course, especially the Prophetic Hadiths. It was not only Prophet Muhammad who had the opportunity to learn about Jewish practices in Medina, but also later — throughout the entire development and shaping process that Islamic law underwent. Judaism had an effective influence on Islamic law. In Palestine, and especially in Iraq, there were flourishing Jewish communities rich in active intellectual life; the spread of Islam caused a period of prosperity among the Jews in the land of the two rivers, both politically and in religious intellectual spheres, and perhaps Jewish dissidents contributed effectively to transferring Jewish ideas and perceptions into the Islamic world.