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Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond Volume I
Essays in Honor of Sarah Stroumsa
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 205.1
Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond is a collection of essays in honor of Sarah Stroumsa, an eminent scholar who through the years has embodied and advanced the possibility of collaboration across borders. The volume is presented to her by scholars working on the study of the intellectual history of the Middle Ages, the intercultural contact and migration of knowledge in the Islamic world, and many other topics.
Contributors: Binyamin Abrahamov, Camilla Adang, Anna Ayse Akasoy, Aleida Assmann, Jan Assmann, Meir M. Bar-Asher, Jos Bellver, Menachem Ben-Sasson, Haggai Ben-Shammai, Glen W. Bowersock, Rmi Brague, Godefroid de Callata, Jonathan Decter, Michael Ebstein, Hussein Fancy, Carlos Fraenkel, Gil Gambash, Robert Gleave, Miriam Goldstein, Frank Griffel, Jaakko HämeenAnttila, Steven Harvey, Warren Zev Harvey, Meir Hatina, Geoffrey Khan, Gudrun Krämer, Ehud Krinis, Y. Tzvi Langermann, Daniel J. Lasker, Reimund Leicht, Gideon Libson, Menachem Lorberbaum, Maria Mavroudi, Jon McGinnis, Omer Michaelis, Yonatan Moss, David Nirenberg, Sari Nusseibeh, Olaf Pluta, Meira Polliack, James T. Robinson, Marina Rustow, Sabine Schmidtke, Gregor Schwarb, Ahmed El Shamsy, Mark Silk, Uriel Simonsohn, Daniel De Smet, Josef Stern, Guy G. Stroumsa, Sara Sviri, Alexander Treiger, Roy Vilozny, Ronny Vollandt, Elvira Wakelnig, Paul E. Walker, David J. Wasserstein, Tanja Werthmann, Dong Xiuyuan, Arye Zoref.
Contributors: Binyamin Abrahamov, Camilla Adang, Anna Ayse Akasoy, Aleida Assmann, Jan Assmann, Meir M. Bar-Asher, Jos Bellver, Menachem Ben-Sasson, Haggai Ben-Shammai, Glen W. Bowersock, Rmi Brague, Godefroid de Callata, Jonathan Decter, Michael Ebstein, Hussein Fancy, Carlos Fraenkel, Gil Gambash, Robert Gleave, Miriam Goldstein, Frank Griffel, Jaakko HämeenAnttila, Steven Harvey, Warren Zev Harvey, Meir Hatina, Geoffrey Khan, Gudrun Krämer, Ehud Krinis, Y. Tzvi Langermann, Daniel J. Lasker, Reimund Leicht, Gideon Libson, Menachem Lorberbaum, Maria Mavroudi, Jon McGinnis, Omer Michaelis, Yonatan Moss, David Nirenberg, Sari Nusseibeh, Olaf Pluta, Meira Polliack, James T. Robinson, Marina Rustow, Sabine Schmidtke, Gregor Schwarb, Ahmed El Shamsy, Mark Silk, Uriel Simonsohn, Daniel De Smet, Josef Stern, Guy G. Stroumsa, Sara Sviri, Alexander Treiger, Roy Vilozny, Ronny Vollandt, Elvira Wakelnig, Paul E. Walker, David J. Wasserstein, Tanja Werthmann, Dong Xiuyuan, Arye Zoref.
Sabine Schmidtke is a Professor of Islamic intellectual history in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She has published on topics ranging from Shism (Zaydism and Twelver Shism), intersections of Jewish and Muslim intellectual history, Wissenschaft des Judentums, the Arabic Bible, and the history of the book and libraries in the Islamicate world. Her recent publications include The Beginnings of Shii Studies in Germany: Rudolf Strothmann and His Correspondence with Carl Heinrich Becker, Ignaz Goldziher, Eugeneo Griffini, and Conrelis van Arendonk, 1910 through 1926 (2023), Al-arf al-Murtas Oeuvre and Thought in Context: An Archaeological Inquiry into Texts and their Transmission (2022) coedited with Hassan Ansari; Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible: Texts and Studies (2019), with Camilla Adang; and Traditional Yemeni Scholarship amidst Political Turmoil and War: Muammad b. Muammad b. Isml b. al-Muahhar al-Manr (19152016) and His Personal Library (2018).
Omer Michaelis is an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv Universitys department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud. Specializing in medieval Jewish thought and philosophy in the Islamicate world, he focuses on the dynamics of production, transmission and integration of knowledge in medieval Judaism, and its intersection with parallel processes in the Islamic culture. His recenct publications include Crisis Discourse and the Dynamics of Tradition in Maimonides' Oeuvre (Magnes Press) and Interiority & Law: Bahya ibn Paquda and the Concept of Inner Commandments (Stanford UP), published in 2023.
Omer Michaelis is an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv Universitys department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud. Specializing in medieval Jewish thought and philosophy in the Islamicate world, he focuses on the dynamics of production, transmission and integration of knowledge in medieval Judaism, and its intersection with parallel processes in the Islamic culture. His recenct publications include Crisis Discourse and the Dynamics of Tradition in Maimonides' Oeuvre (Magnes Press) and Interiority & Law: Bahya ibn Paquda and the Concept of Inner Commandments (Stanford UP), published in 2023.
a. Tabula Gratulatoria
b. Preface
c. Sarah Stroumsa: List of Publications
d. Sabine Schmidtke, Questioning ... Sarah Stroumsa
History, Society and Religion
1. Gil Gambash, Between Riband Cabotage: The Coastal Economy of the Southern Levant in Late Antiquity
2. Aleida Assmann, Addiction to Books: Jewish Monotheism, Media Revolutions, and Cultural Memory
3. Paul E. Walker, The Birth of New Messianic and Prophetic Movements under the Fatimids
4. Marina Rustow, A Letter from a Fatimid Official Recycled by Al b. Sulaymn for Qirqisn Extracts: RNL Yevr.-Arab. I 1986
5. Uriel Simonsohn, The Subversion of Gender Hierarchies in ab Dialogues
6. Meir Hatina, Between the Pulpit and the Battlefield: Contested Notions of Religious Authority in Modern Sunni Thought
7. Jan Assmann, Job Looks Back: Religion Beyond the Age of Faith
Al-Andalus and Sefarad
8. Jos Bellver, The Reception of Ibn Masarra into Sufism
9. Godefroid de Callata, Reconsidering the Influence of the Rasil Ikhwn al-af on Ibn al-Sd al-Baalyawss Kitb al-Dawir
10. Camilla Adang, The man who fled from Ibn al-Naghrla
11. David J. Wasserstein, Avot in al-Andalus
12. Michael Ebstein, Intellectualism and Anti-Intellectualism in al-Andalus: Muy l-Dn Ibn al-Arab (d. 638/1240) Versus Ibn ufayl (d. 581/1185)
13. Ehud Krinis, Interpreting Judah Halevis Kuzari: Leo Strauss, Shlomo Pines, and Beyond
14. Benyamin Abrahamov, Happiness (Sada) in Ibn al-Arabs Thought
15. Hussein Fancy, The Aragonese Almohads, the Almohad Aragonese
Maimonides and the Maimonidean Dynasty
16. Carlos Fraenkel, Philosophy as a Way of Life in Maimonides
17. Warren Z. Harvey, Maimonides on God as Intellect
18. Frank Griffel, Two Divergent Schools in Sixth-/Twelfth-Century Arabic Philosophy and Maimonides Seventh Reason for Contradictions in Books
19. Y. Tzvi Langermann, Choosing Truth over Facts: Maimonides Finesses the Problem of Divine Attributes
20. Reimund Leicht, From Knowledge (Ilm) to Intellect (Aql): On a Remarkable Terminological and Conceptual Shift in Maimonidess Thought
21. Menachem Lorberbaum, Maimonides' Conception of Avodah
22. Josef Stern, Maimonides Dream Argument and the Certainty of Prophecy
23. Steven Harvey, The Perplexing Case of the Missing Happiness in Maimonides Guide
24. Gregor Schwarb, Al ibn aybughs Commentary on Maimonidess Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-Madda, Hilkhot Yesodei ha-Torah IIV, a Philosophical Encyclopaedia of the Fourteenth Century
25. Sara Sviri, R. Abraham Maimonides Sufi-Inspired Commentary on the Practice of Solitude and Psalms 84 and 101
The Whirlpool at Work: Ideas and Practices
26. Yonatan Moss, Who Invented Writing? Changing Answers to a Rarely Asked Question among Biblical Readers of the First Millennium
27. Menahem Ben-Sasson, An Interreligious Encounter in Four Visions of Daniel
28. Dong Xiuyuan, The Enigma of the Brahmins: On Sarah Stroumsas Study of the Barhima
29. Ronny Vollandt, The (Syro-)Hexapla in Arabic: An Editio Princepsand Translation of al-rith b. Sinns Introductory Tractate
30. Haggai Ben-Shammai, New Fragments of al-Qirqisns Defense of Rational Speculation
31. Robert Gleave, Jews and Christians in Twelver Sh Jurisprudence: Kitb al-Khilf of Muammad b. al-asan al-s (d. 460/1067)
32. Mark Silk, Three Rings, Twelve Shields, a Thousand Drawings: The Value of Facsimiles in Religious Epistemology
33. Gideon Libson, Core and Shell: On the Close Relationship between Ancient Halakhah and Shara and the Gulf that Emerged between Them
34. Tanja Werthmann, Neoplatonic Variations on a Pre-Socratic Theme: Transposing a Material Element into the Intelligible Realm
35. Daniel J. Lasker, Jewish Anti-Christian Polemics in Islamic Countries and the Unchanging Nature of the Jewish Critique of Christianity
36. Rmi Brague, State and Time on 1 Samuel 8, 1118
Philosophy in the Islamicate World and Beyond
37. Alexander Treiger, The Longer Theology of Aristotle, Book X.6-13: A Critical Edition and Translation
38. Sari Nusseibeh, Is One Unique?
39. Jon McGinnis, Timing Is Everything: God, Causation, and Temporal Atomism in Medieval Islam
40. Olaf Pluta, John Buridan on the Question of Immortality
41. Gudrun Krämer, Time is Life: Piety, Punctuality, and Productivity in Modern Islamic Discourse
Intellectual History in the Islamicate World
42. Anna Akasoy, Shahrazads Homiletic Stories: The Arabian Nights Reinterpreted
43. Geoffrey Khan, The Representation of the Tetragrammaton in the Medieval Karaite Transcriptions of Hebrew into Arabic Script
44. Miriam Goldstein, The Construction of Noahs Ark according to Yaqb al-Qirqisn
45 Ahmed El Shamsy, The Mushabbiha Are the Jews of the Umma: On the History of a Heresiographical Label
46. Roy Vilozny, We are those firmly rooted in knowledge [Q 3:7]: Imm-Sh Exegesis between Hermeneutics and Empiricism
47. Elvira Wakeling, Ibn al-ayyibs Prolegomena to Medicine: The Introduction to His Commentary on Galens On Sects
48. Meira Polliack and Arye Zoref, Can Love Survive Politics? King David as Ruler in the Biblical Exegeses of Yefet ben Eli and Don Isaac Abravanel
49. Jonathan Decter, King Solomons maqra: The Royal Image in Yefet ben Elis Commentary on Kings
50. Meir M. Bar-Asher, A Dialogue of the Deaf: amd al-Dn al-Kirmns Refutation of al-ibb al-Rn by Ab Bakr al-Rz
51. Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Bzhan and Manzha, the Pleonastic -, and the Composition History of the Shhnma
52. James T. Robinson, Allegorical Readings of Qohelet 7:19 in Medieval Jewish Exegesis: The Ten Rulers in the City as Body Parts, Celestial Spheres, Psychic Faculties, or Internal and External Senses
On Modern Scholars and Scholarship
53. Daniel De Smet, Hermes and Simplicius in arrn: About Medieval and Modern Myths in the History of Philosophy
54. Sabine Schmidtke, Rudolf Strothmanns Trip to the Middle East (1929/30): II. Yemen
55. David Nirenberg, Convivencia vs. Race: On the Dangers of Extracting Morality from History
56.Guy Stroumsa, A Paradigm Shift? Salomon Munk and Ernest Renan on Jewish and Arabic Philosophy
57. Maria Mavroudi, Historiographical Debates and Modern Political Considerations in Writing a Cultural History of the Holy Land: A Byzantinists Perspective
58.Glen W. Bowersock, A Vanished Deuteronomy
b. Preface
c. Sarah Stroumsa: List of Publications
d. Sabine Schmidtke, Questioning ... Sarah Stroumsa
History, Society and Religion
1. Gil Gambash, Between Riband Cabotage: The Coastal Economy of the Southern Levant in Late Antiquity
2. Aleida Assmann, Addiction to Books: Jewish Monotheism, Media Revolutions, and Cultural Memory
3. Paul E. Walker, The Birth of New Messianic and Prophetic Movements under the Fatimids
4. Marina Rustow, A Letter from a Fatimid Official Recycled by Al b. Sulaymn for Qirqisn Extracts: RNL Yevr.-Arab. I 1986
5. Uriel Simonsohn, The Subversion of Gender Hierarchies in ab Dialogues
6. Meir Hatina, Between the Pulpit and the Battlefield: Contested Notions of Religious Authority in Modern Sunni Thought
7. Jan Assmann, Job Looks Back: Religion Beyond the Age of Faith
Al-Andalus and Sefarad
8. Jos Bellver, The Reception of Ibn Masarra into Sufism
9. Godefroid de Callata, Reconsidering the Influence of the Rasil Ikhwn al-af on Ibn al-Sd al-Baalyawss Kitb al-Dawir
10. Camilla Adang, The man who fled from Ibn al-Naghrla
11. David J. Wasserstein, Avot in al-Andalus
12. Michael Ebstein, Intellectualism and Anti-Intellectualism in al-Andalus: Muy l-Dn Ibn al-Arab (d. 638/1240) Versus Ibn ufayl (d. 581/1185)
13. Ehud Krinis, Interpreting Judah Halevis Kuzari: Leo Strauss, Shlomo Pines, and Beyond
14. Benyamin Abrahamov, Happiness (Sada) in Ibn al-Arabs Thought
15. Hussein Fancy, The Aragonese Almohads, the Almohad Aragonese
Maimonides and the Maimonidean Dynasty
16. Carlos Fraenkel, Philosophy as a Way of Life in Maimonides
17. Warren Z. Harvey, Maimonides on God as Intellect
18. Frank Griffel, Two Divergent Schools in Sixth-/Twelfth-Century Arabic Philosophy and Maimonides Seventh Reason for Contradictions in Books
19. Y. Tzvi Langermann, Choosing Truth over Facts: Maimonides Finesses the Problem of Divine Attributes
20. Reimund Leicht, From Knowledge (Ilm) to Intellect (Aql): On a Remarkable Terminological and Conceptual Shift in Maimonidess Thought
21. Menachem Lorberbaum, Maimonides' Conception of Avodah
22. Josef Stern, Maimonides Dream Argument and the Certainty of Prophecy
23. Steven Harvey, The Perplexing Case of the Missing Happiness in Maimonides Guide
24. Gregor Schwarb, Al ibn aybughs Commentary on Maimonidess Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-Madda, Hilkhot Yesodei ha-Torah IIV, a Philosophical Encyclopaedia of the Fourteenth Century
25. Sara Sviri, R. Abraham Maimonides Sufi-Inspired Commentary on the Practice of Solitude and Psalms 84 and 101
The Whirlpool at Work: Ideas and Practices
26. Yonatan Moss, Who Invented Writing? Changing Answers to a Rarely Asked Question among Biblical Readers of the First Millennium
27. Menahem Ben-Sasson, An Interreligious Encounter in Four Visions of Daniel
28. Dong Xiuyuan, The Enigma of the Brahmins: On Sarah Stroumsas Study of the Barhima
29. Ronny Vollandt, The (Syro-)Hexapla in Arabic: An Editio Princepsand Translation of al-rith b. Sinns Introductory Tractate
30. Haggai Ben-Shammai, New Fragments of al-Qirqisns Defense of Rational Speculation
31. Robert Gleave, Jews and Christians in Twelver Sh Jurisprudence: Kitb al-Khilf of Muammad b. al-asan al-s (d. 460/1067)
32. Mark Silk, Three Rings, Twelve Shields, a Thousand Drawings: The Value of Facsimiles in Religious Epistemology
33. Gideon Libson, Core and Shell: On the Close Relationship between Ancient Halakhah and Shara and the Gulf that Emerged between Them
34. Tanja Werthmann, Neoplatonic Variations on a Pre-Socratic Theme: Transposing a Material Element into the Intelligible Realm
35. Daniel J. Lasker, Jewish Anti-Christian Polemics in Islamic Countries and the Unchanging Nature of the Jewish Critique of Christianity
36. Rmi Brague, State and Time on 1 Samuel 8, 1118
Philosophy in the Islamicate World and Beyond
37. Alexander Treiger, The Longer Theology of Aristotle, Book X.6-13: A Critical Edition and Translation
38. Sari Nusseibeh, Is One Unique?
39. Jon McGinnis, Timing Is Everything: God, Causation, and Temporal Atomism in Medieval Islam
40. Olaf Pluta, John Buridan on the Question of Immortality
41. Gudrun Krämer, Time is Life: Piety, Punctuality, and Productivity in Modern Islamic Discourse
Intellectual History in the Islamicate World
42. Anna Akasoy, Shahrazads Homiletic Stories: The Arabian Nights Reinterpreted
43. Geoffrey Khan, The Representation of the Tetragrammaton in the Medieval Karaite Transcriptions of Hebrew into Arabic Script
44. Miriam Goldstein, The Construction of Noahs Ark according to Yaqb al-Qirqisn
45 Ahmed El Shamsy, The Mushabbiha Are the Jews of the Umma: On the History of a Heresiographical Label
46. Roy Vilozny, We are those firmly rooted in knowledge [Q 3:7]: Imm-Sh Exegesis between Hermeneutics and Empiricism
47. Elvira Wakeling, Ibn al-ayyibs Prolegomena to Medicine: The Introduction to His Commentary on Galens On Sects
48. Meira Polliack and Arye Zoref, Can Love Survive Politics? King David as Ruler in the Biblical Exegeses of Yefet ben Eli and Don Isaac Abravanel
49. Jonathan Decter, King Solomons maqra: The Royal Image in Yefet ben Elis Commentary on Kings
50. Meir M. Bar-Asher, A Dialogue of the Deaf: amd al-Dn al-Kirmns Refutation of al-ibb al-Rn by Ab Bakr al-Rz
51. Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Bzhan and Manzha, the Pleonastic -, and the Composition History of the Shhnma
52. James T. Robinson, Allegorical Readings of Qohelet 7:19 in Medieval Jewish Exegesis: The Ten Rulers in the City as Body Parts, Celestial Spheres, Psychic Faculties, or Internal and External Senses
On Modern Scholars and Scholarship
53. Daniel De Smet, Hermes and Simplicius in arrn: About Medieval and Modern Myths in the History of Philosophy
54. Sabine Schmidtke, Rudolf Strothmanns Trip to the Middle East (1929/30): II. Yemen
55. David Nirenberg, Convivencia vs. Race: On the Dangers of Extracting Morality from History
56.Guy Stroumsa, A Paradigm Shift? Salomon Munk and Ernest Renan on Jewish and Arabic Philosophy
57. Maria Mavroudi, Historiographical Debates and Modern Political Considerations in Writing a Cultural History of the Holy Land: A Byzantinists Perspective
58.Glen W. Bowersock, A Vanished Deuteronomy
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