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Informationen zum Autor Aaron W. Hughes is the Dean's Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Rochester, USA. He is the author of many books, including most recently From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2020), Muslim and Jew: Origins, Growth, Resentment (Routledge, 2019) and Shared Identities: Medieval and Modern Imaginings of Judeo-Islam (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (Journal of the North American Association for the Study of Religion). Klappentext This volume covers the major traditions of thought from Philo to Levinas and, since Jewish philosophy has occurred in broader environments (e.g., Hellenistic Alexandria, Medieval Baghdad, Weimar Germany), non-Jewish thinkers who have had an important influence on Jewish philosophy are also included (e.g., Plotinus, Alfarabi, Heidegger). Zusammenfassung This volume covers the major traditions of thought from Philo to Levinas and! since Jewish philosophy has occurred in broader environments (e.g.! Hellenistic Alexandria! Medieval Baghdad! Weimar Germany)! non-Jewish thinkers who have had an important influence on Jewish philosophy are also included (e.g.! Plotinus! Alfarabi! Heidegger).