Beyond Religious Borders : : Interaction and Intellectual Exchange in the Medieval Islamic World / / ed. by Miriam Goldstein, David M. Freidenreich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
• MitwirkendeR: Ben-Shammai, Haggai,; Butbul, Sagit,; Decter, Jonathan P.,; Fishman, Talya,; Freidenreich, David M.,; Freudenthal, Gad,; Goldstein, Miriam,; Lasker, Daniel J.,; Levy-Rubin, Milka,; Manekin, Charles H.,; Stroumsa, Sarah,
• HerausgeberIn: Freidenreich, David M.,; Goldstein, Miriam,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

The medieval Islamic world comprised a wide variety of religions. While individuals and communities in this world identified themselves with particular faiths, boundaries between these groups were vague and in some cases nonexistent. Rather than simply borrowing or lending customs, goods, and notions to one another, the peoples of the Mediterranean region interacted within a common culture. Beyond Religious Borders presents sophisticated and often revolutionary studies of the ways Jewish, Christian, and Muslim thinkers drew ideas and inspiration from outside the bounds of their own religious communities.Each essay in this collection covers a key aspect of interreligious relationships in Mediterranean lands during the first six centuries of Islam. These studies focus on the cultural context of exchange, the impact of exchange, and the factors motivating exchange between adherents of different religions. Essays address the influence of the shared Arabic language on the transfer of knowledge, reconsider the restrictions imposed by Muslim rulers on Christian and Jewish subjects, and demonstrate the need to consider both Jewish and Muslim works in the study of Andalusian philosophy. Case studies on the impact of exchange examine specific literary, religious, and philosophical concepts that crossed religious borders. In each case, elements native to one religious group and originally foreign to another became fully at home in both. The volume concludes by considering why certain ideas crossed religious lines while others did not, and how specific figures involved in such processes understood their own roles in the transfer of ideas.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Contexts of Interreligious Interaction -- Chapter 1. Observations on the Beginnings of Judeo-Arabic Civilization -- Chapter 2. Shurūṭ ʿUmar From Early Harbingers to Systematic Enforcement -- Chapter 3. Thinkers of "This Peninsula" -- Part II. Adopting and Accommodating the Foreign -- Chapter 4. Translations in Contact Early Judeo-Arabic and Syriac Biblical Translations -- Chapter 5. Claims About the Mishna in the Epistle of Sherira Gaon -- Chapter 6. Maimonides and the Arabic Aristotelian Tradition of Epistemology -- Chapter 7. Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Fakhkhār al-Yahūdī -- Part III. Crossing Borders Agents of Interaction and Exchange -- Chapter 8. The Impact of Interreligious Polemic on Medieval Philosophy -- Chapter 9. Arabic into Hebrew The Emergence of the Translation Movement in Twelfth-Century Provence and Jewish-Christian Polemic -- Chapter 10. Fusion Cooking in an Islamic Milieu -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments