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Informationen zum Autor Edited by David M. Freidenreich and Miriam Goldstein Klappentext David M. Freidenreich teaches Jewish studies at Colby College. Miriam Goldstein is Lecturer in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Zusammenfassung This collection of sophisticated! innovative essays looks at how Jewish! Christian! and Muslim thinkers within the Islamic world drew ideas and inspiration from outside the bounds of their own religious communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction —Miriam Goldstein PART I. CONTEXTS OF INTERRELIGIOUS INTERACTION Chapter 1. Observations on the Beginnings of Judeo-Arabic Civilization —Haggai Ben-Shammai Chapter 2. Shur¿¿ 'Umar: From Early Harbingers to Systematic Enforcement —Milka Levy-Rubin Chapter 3. Thinkers of "This Peninsula": Toward an Integrative Approach to the Study of Philosophy in al-Andalus —Sarah Stroumsa PART II. ADOPTING AND ACCOMMODATING THE FOREIGN Chapter 4. Translations in Contact: Early Judeo-Arabic and Syriac Biblical Translations —Sagit Butbul Chapter 5. Claims About the Mishna in the Epistle of Sherira Gaon: Islamic Theology and Jewish History —Talya Fishman Chapter 6. Maimonides and the Arabic Aristotelian Tradition of Epistemology —Charles H. Manekin Chapter 7. Ibr¿hīm Ibn al-Fakhkh¿r al-Yah¿dī: An Arabic Poet and Diplomat in Castile and the Maghrib —Jonathan P. Decter PART III. CROSSING BORDERS: AGENTS OF INTERACTION AND EXCHANGE Chapter 8. The Impact of Interreligious Polemic on Medieval Philosophy —Daniel J. Lasker Chapter 9. Arabic into Hebrew: The Emergence of the Translation Movement in Twelfth-Century Provence and Jewish-Christian Polemic —Gad Freudenthal Chapter 10. Fusion Cooking in an Islamic Milieu: Jewish and Christian Jurists on Food Associated with Foreigners —David M. Freidenreich Notes Index Acknowledgments ...
