The Jews of Medieval Islam: Community, Society, and Identity : Proceedings of an International Conference Held by the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London, 1992

Couverture
Daniel H. Frank, Institute of Jewish Studies (London, England)
BRILL, 1995 - 357 pages
This volume contains fifteen articles on the communal, social, and intellectual life of medieval Jewry in Islamic lands. The book is divided into three parts. Part I, 'Communities and Their Leaders' is devoted to the old Babylonian center in the East and the Andalusian community in the West. Part II, 'Self-Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Others' investigates the ways in which medieval Jews living under Islam viewed their gentile neighbours and expressed their own identity. Part III, 'Religious Philosophy, Mysticism, and Spirituality in Islam and Judaism' explores the impact of Islamic thought on the Jewish intellectual tradition. The collection depicts a civilization at once unified and diverse, revealing both consistent patterns of leadership and scholarship as well as distinctively local identities and collective memories.
 

Table des matières

The Jew in the Medieval Islamic City
3
MENAHEM BENSASSON
17
The Exilarchate
33
GIDEON LIBSON
67
DAVID J WASSERSTEIN
101
YOM TOV Assis
111
YEDIDA KALFON STILLMAN
127
MARK R COHEN
145
On Jewish Intellectuals Who Converted in
179
Karaite
199
DAVID E SKLARE
249
IVRY
271
PAUL B FENTON
301
Y TZVI LANGERMANN
335
Index of Medieval Authors
349
Droits d'auteur

DANIEL J LASKER
165

Expressions et termes fréquents

À propos de l'auteur (1995)

Daniel Frank, Ph.D. (1991) in Near Eastern Languages, Harvard University, is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Wolfson College, Oxford. He has written on Karaite religious philosophy and biblical exegesis and is working on a study of Judah Halevi.

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