Beyond Religious Borders: Interaction and Intellectual Exchange in the Medieval Islamic World

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2012

Beyond Religious Borders

Interaction and Intellectual Exchange in the Medieval Islamic World

Edited by: David M. Freidenreich and Miriam Goldstein

In the series Jewish Culture and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206913

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"This volume on various aspects of Judeo-Arabic civilization in its most productive age is a book for our time. In viewing Jewish culture as a constituent part of a large 'Islamicate' society, the contributors to this collection share a view of the way cultures interact that is far more sophisticated than the borrower-lender model that obtained a generation ago. The scholarship is of the highest level. Any new synthesis of the subject that is to emerge from the work of the present generation of scholars will depend on studies such as those here assembled."—Raymond P. Scheindlin, Jewish Theological Seminary

"Beyond Religious Borders is an important contribution to diverse fields of modern scholarship. It is a welcome addition to the ever-increasing corpus of studies that employ 'boundary crossing' as a methodological tool, suggesting to scholars a new, more sophisticated methodological conception of "border lines" in the Islamic Middle Ages. It is for all these reasons that I recommend this volume enthusiastically and without reservation."—Comitatus

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Introduction Miriam Goldstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Contexts of Interreligious Interaction
Chapter 1. Observations on the Beginnings of Judeo-Arabic Civilization Haggai Ben-Shammai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter 2. Shurūṭ ʿUmar From Early Harbingers to Systematic Enforcement Milka Levy-Rubin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Chapter 3. Thinkers of “This Peninsula” Toward an Integrative Approach to the Study of Philosophy in al-Andalus Sarah Stroumsa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Part II. Adopting and Accommodating the Foreign
Chapter 4. Translations in Contact Early Judeo-Arabic and Syriac Biblical Translations Sagit Butbul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter 5. Claims About the Mishna in the Epistle of Sherira Gaon Islamic Theology and Jewish History Talya Fishman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Chapter 6. Maimonides and the Arabic Aristotelian Tradition of Epistemology Charles H. Manekin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Chapter 7. Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Fakhkhār al-Yahūdī An Arabic Poet and Diplomat in Castile and the Maghrib Jonathan P. Decter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Part III. Crossing Borders Agents of Interaction and Exchange
Chapter 8. The Impact of Interreligious Polemic on Medieval Philosophy Daniel J. Lasker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Chapter 9. Arabic into Hebrew The Emergence of the Translation Movement in Twelfth-Century Provence and Jewish-Christian Polemic Gad Freudenthal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Chapter 10. Fusion Cooking in an Islamic Milieu Jewish and Christian Jurists on Food Associated with Foreigners David M. Freidenreich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: Religion; History; Jewish Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; European History; World History; Religious Studies

eBook

Published: November 29, 2011
ISBN: 9780812206913