Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (232 S.)
Series Statement:
Jewish Culture and Contexts
Parallel Title:
Print version Beyond Religious Borders : Interaction and Intellectual Exchange in the Medieval Islamic World
DDC:
305.609560902
Keywords:
Religion
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Main description: This collection of sophisticated, innovative essays looks at how Jewish, Christian, and Muslim thinkers within the Islamic world drew ideas and inspiration from outside the bounds of their own religious communities.
Abstract:
Biographical note: David M. Freidenreich teaches Jewish studies at Colby College. Miriam Goldstein is Lecturer in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Part I. Contexts of Interreligious Interaction ""; ""Chapter 1: Observations on the Beginnings of Judeo-Arabic Civilization ""; ""Chapter 2: Shurūt Umar: From Early Harbingers to Systematic Enforcement""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Chapter 3: Thinkers of "This Peninsula": Toward an Integrative Approach to the Study of Philosophy in al-Andalus """"Part II . Adopting and Accommodating the Foreign ""; ""Chapter 4: Translations in Contact: Early Judeo-Arabic and Syriac Biblical Translations ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Chapter 5: Claims About the Mishna in the Epistle of Sherira Gaon: Islamic Theology and Jewish History """"Chapter 6: Maimonides and the Arabic Aristotelian Tradition of Epistemology ""; ""Chapter 7: Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Fakhkhār al-Yahudī: An Arabic Poet and Diplomat in Castile and the Maghrib""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Part III . Crossing Borders: Agents of Interaction and Exchange """"Chapter 8: The Impact of Interreligious Polemic on Medieval Philosophy ""; ""Chapter 9: Arabic into Hebrew: The Emergence of the Translation Movement in Twelfth-Century Provence and Jewish-Christian Polemic ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Chapter 10: Fusion Cooking in an Islamic Milieu: Jewish and Christian Jurists on Food Associated with Foreigners """"Notes ""; ""Index ""; ""Acknowledgments ""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.9783/9780812206913
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