Format:
1 online resource (373 Seiten).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
978-90-04-49323-0
Series Statement:
Études Sur le Judaïsme Médiéval Series volume 16
Content:
A collection of fifteen articles on the communal, social, and intellectual life of medieval Jewry in Islamic lands. This volume depicts a civilization unified in its languages and basic structures but diverse in its distinctive lical indentities and collective memories.
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PROLOGUE -- The Jew in the Medieval Islamic City -- PART ONE COMMUNITIES AND THEIR LEADERS: IRAQ AND SPAIN -- Varieties of Inter-Communal Relations in the Geonic Period -- The Exilarchate -- Halakhah and Reality in the Gaonic Period: Taqqanah, Minhag, Tradition and Consensus: Some Observations -- Jewish Élites in al-Andalus -- The Judeo-Arabic Tradition in Christian Spain -- PART TWO SELF-PERCEPTIONS AND ATTITUDES TOW ARDS OTHERS -- Costume as Cultural Statement: The Esthetics, Economics, and Politics of Islamic Dress -- Persecution, Response, and Collective Memory: The Jews of Islam in the Classical Period -- Saadya Gaon on Christianity and Islam -- On Jewish Intellectuals Who Converted in the Early Middle Ages -- The Shoshanim of Tenth-Century Jerusalem: Karaite Exegesis, Prayer, and Communal Identity -- PART THREE RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY, MYSTICISM, AND SPIRITUALITY IN ISLAM AND JUDAISM -- Yūsuf al-Baṣīr: Theological Aspects of his Halakhic Works -- Ismāʿīlī Theology and Maimonides' Philosophy -- A Mystical Treatise on Perfection, Providence and Prophecy from the Jewish Ṣūfī Circle -- Yemenite Philosophical Midrash as a Source for the Intellectual History of the Jews of Yemen -- Index of Medieval Authors -- Jewish Authors -- Muslim Authors -- Christian Authors -- Index of Modern Authors -- ÉTUDESSUR LE JUDAÏSME MÉDIÉVAL.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004104044
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004104044
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Theology
Keywords:
Konferenzschrift
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