Adaptations and innovations : studies on the interaction between Jewish and Islamic thought and literature from the early Middle Ages to the late twentieth century, dedicated to Professor Joel L. Kraemer / edited by Y. Tzvi Langermann and Josef Stern.

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Book
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  • English
  • French
Published/​Created
Paris ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2007.
Description
x, 441 p. ; 24 cm.

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Summary note
"The present volume of studies, likely the first such collection in the scholarly literature, explores the full range of interconnections between Jews and Muslims in all fields (intellectual history, religion, philosophy, social history, etc.) and in all periods, from the Middle Ages till today. The essays have been written by some twenty distinguished scholars from North America, Europe, and Israel."--Jacket
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Language note
Text chiefly in English; one article in French.
Contents
  • The objective of speculation in Saadia's thought / Binyamin Abrahamov
  • La ruse divine (talaṭṭuf) : quelques textes nouveaux / Rémi Brague
  • Alfarabi's introductory sections to the virtuous city / Charles E. Butterworth
  • Early Islamic exegesis on the so-called 'Hamitic myth' / Reuven Firestone
  • Remnants of Ḥabīb Ibn Habrīz's Arabic translation of Nichomacus of Gerasa's Introduction to arithmetic / Gad Freudenthal
  • On Judah ha-Levi and the martyrdom of a head of the Jews : a letter by Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Nethanel / Mordechai A. Friedman
  • Fundamentals of the law : medi-eval and modern / Miriam Galston
  • Religious tolerance in the Rasā'il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā / Abbas Hamdani
  • Getting to know thee : conjunction and conformity in Averroes' and Maimonides' philosophy / Alfred Ivry
  • Two gentlemen of Cordova : Averroes and Maimonides on the transcendence and immanence of God / Barry Kogan
  • East and west in Hasdai Crescas : some reflections on history and historiography / Y. Tzvi Langermann
  • Additional riddles from the riddler's file on King Solomon and the queen of Sheba / Jacob Lassner
  • The philosopher as legislator / Ralph Lerner
  • Finding the face of God : Maimonides and the sacred art of teaching / Sarah Pessin
  • Islamic retellings of biblical history / Uri Rubin
  • What does Manhaj al-Ṣawāb want from the Jews? / Joseph Sadan
  • Sublime in its style, exquisite in its tenderness : the Hebrew Bible quotations in al-Biqāʻī's Quran commentary / Walid Saleh
  • Al-fiqh, a term borrowed from Islam used by Maimonides for a Jewish concept in his Sefer ha-Mizwoth and in the Guide of the perplexed / Michael Schwarz
  • Didacticism or literary legerdemain? Philosophical and ethical themes in Zechariah al-Ḍāhiri's Sefer ha-Mūsar / Adena Tannenbaum
  • Concubines and puppies : philologies of esotericism in Jerusalem between the world wars / Steven Wasserstrom
ISBN
  • 9789042919440 (Peeters Leuven)
  • 9042919442 (Peeters Leuven)
  • 9782877239820 (Peeters France)
  • 2877239829 (Peeters France)
LCCN
^^2008448815
OCLC
260231340
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H - S
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