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

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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Action note
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
RCP
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