Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg (Semitic Languages and Cultures, Band 4) - Softcover

 
9781783749676: Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg (Semitic Languages and Cultures, Band 4)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1783749679 ISBN 13: 9781783749676
Verlag: Open Book Publishers, 2020

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Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled unearths forgotten texts that once belonged to the library of the Karaite community in Cairo. Consigned to oblivion for centuries, many of these manuscripts were sold in the second half of the nineteenth century to the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, where they remained inaccessible to most scholars until the end of the Cold War. The texts from the Karaite library cover a remarkable spectrum of medieval literary genres and scholarly disciplines, spanning works by Jewish, Muslim and Christian authors, in both Hebrew and Arabic. As such, they provide unique access to an otherwise lost body of literature from the medieval Islamicate world. This timely volume presents, for the first time, edited fragments of six texts by adherents of the Mütazila, a school of rational theology that emerged in the eighth century CE, including Karaite copies and recensions of works by Muslim authors, notably ¿Abd al-Jabb¿r al-Hamadh¿n¿ and ¿Abd All¿h b. Sä¿d al-Labb¿d, as well as original Jewish Mütazil¿ treatises. The collection is concluded by an anonymous Rabbanite refutation of the highly influential polemical tract against Judaism, entitled If¿¿m al-y¿h¿d. This collection offers unprecedented insights into the intellectual crossroads between Muslims and Jews of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. It will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars engaged with this period of history.

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Verlag
Open Book Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1783749679
ISBN 13 
9781783749676
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
506
Herausgeber
Adang Camilla, Chiesa Bruno, Hamdan Omar
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