Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context : : Rationality, European Borders, and the Search for Belonging / / ed. by Ottfried Fraisse.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Evri, Yuval,; Fenton, Paul B.,; Fraisse, Ottfried,; Frenkel, Miriam,; Harif, Hanan,; Harvey, Steven,; Heschel, Susannah,; Johnston-Bloom, Ruchama,; Libson, Gideon,; Schulze, Reinhard,; Schwartz, Yossef,; Stillman, Noam A.,; Zwiep, Irene E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Fraisse, Ottfried,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums , 108
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 359 p.)

This volume highlights the role of Jewish scholars within the field of Oriental studies in the 19th and 20th century. It discusses their views of Islam and the "Orient" in the context of concepts such as orientalism, colonialism, and modernity. The analysis shows that Jewish oriental research provides a way of understanding some of the particularities of the boundaries between European frameworks of thought.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context: Rationality, European Borders, and the Search for Belonging -- Jewish Orientalism Pre-modern and Modern: Epochal Variations of Cultural Hybridity? -- The Rise of Imperialism and the German Jewish Engagement in Islamic Studies -- A) Self-Definition of the Scholar within Europe: The Self-Interested Inner Side of the European Borders is Unmasked, Though Still Dominant (Position 1) -- Gustav Weil’s Koranforschung and the Transnational Circulation of Ideas: The Shaping of Muhammad as Reformer -- B) Self-Definition of the Scholar outside Europe, However, the Self-Interested Inner Side of the European Borders is Still Effective (Position 2) -- Samuel Abraham Poznański’s Karaite Mission: From Wissenschaft to Jewish Nationalism -- Shlomo Dov Goitein’s Research into the Relationship between the Jewish and Muslim Traditions through the Prism of His Predecessors and Colleagues -- Islamici nil a me alienum puto: The Mindset of Jewish Scholars of Islamic Studies -- C) Self-Definition of the Scholar within Europe, Though an Ambiguous Perspective on Both Sides of the European Borders is Developed (Position 3) -- Beyond Orientalism? Steinschneider on Islam, Religion and Plurality -- The Story of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Scholar’s Discovery of Plato’s Political Philosophy in Tenth-Century Islam: Leo Strauss’ Early Interest in the Islamic Falāsifa -- Martin Schreiner’s Unpublished Systematic Philosophy of Religion: Adapting Ignác Goldziher’s Method for Researching Islam -- Salomon Munk and the Franco-Jewish Discovery of Orientalism -- Adapting Andalusian Convivencia: Merging Identities in the Modern Jewish Bourgeoisie -- D) Self-Definition of the Scholar outside Europe, However, the Inner Perspective on the European Borders is Critically Evaluated as Part of His View from the Outside (Position 4) -- The Orient between Arab and Jewish National Revivals: Josef Horovitz, Shelomo Dov Goitein and Oriental Studies in Jerusalem -- Return to al-Andalus beyond German-Jewish Orientalism: Abraham Shalom Yahuda’s Critique of Modern Jewish Discourse -- Index of Names -- Subject Index