1. On the ability of gentiles receiving revelation provided a distinction is made between prophets and ordinary revelation, see Robert Eisen, “The Problem of the King’s Dream And Non-Jewish Prophecy in Judah Halevi’s ‘Kuzari,’” JJTP 3, 2 (1994): 231–47.
2. See also Charles Manekin, “Hierarchy and Race in the Thought of Judah Ha-Levy,” in Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, 1992 (Louvian: Peters, 1996).
3. There is a large literature on Maimonides’ attitude toward other religions including: David Novak, Maimonides on Judaism and Other Religions (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1997).
4. Gerald Blidstein, “The Status of Islam in Maimonidean Halakhah,” in Studies in Halakhic and Aggadic Thought (Beer Sheva: Ben Gurion University Press, 2004), 237–47;
5. Stephen D. Benin, “The Search for Truth in Sacred Scripture; Jews, Christians, and the Authority to Interpret,” in Jane Dammen McAuliffe et al., eds, With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 13–32;