Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond Volume II : : Essays in Honor of Sarah Stroumsa / / edited by Sabine Schmidtke, Omer Michaelis.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization
• TeilnehmendeR: Michaelis, Omer,; Schmidtke, Sabine,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic History and Civilization ; .; Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (794 pages)

Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond is a collection of essays in honor of Sarah Stroumsa, an eminent scholar who through the years has embodied and advanced the possibility of collaboration across borders. The volume is presented to her by scholars working on the study of the intellectual history of the Middle Ages, the intercultural contact and migration of knowledge in the Islamic world, and many other topics. Contributors: Binyamin Abrahamov, Camilla Adang, Anna Ayse Akasoy, Aleida Assmann, Jan Assmann, Meir M. Bar-Asher, José Bellver, Menachem Ben-Sasson, Haggai Ben-Shammai, Glen W. Bowersock, Rémi Brague, Godefroid de Callataÿ, Jonathan Decter, Michael Ebstein, Hussein Fancy, Carlos Fraenkel, Gil Gambash, Robert Gleave, Miriam Goldstein, Frank Griffel, Jaakko HämeenAnttila, Steven Harvey, Warren Zev Harvey, Meir Hatina, Geoffrey Khan, Gudrun Krämer, Ehud Krinis, Y. Tzvi Langermann, Daniel J. Lasker, Reimund Leicht, Gideon Libson, Menachem Lorberbaum, Maria Mavroudi, Jon McGinnis, Omer Michaelis, Yonatan Moss, David Nirenberg, Sari Nusseibeh, Olaf Pluta, Meira Polliack, James T. Robinson, Marina Rustow, Sabine Schmidtke, Gregor Schwarb, Ahmed El Shamsy, Mark Silk, Uriel Simonsohn, Daniel De Smet, Josef Stern, Guy G. Stroumsa, Sara Sviri, Alexander Treiger, Roy Vilozny, Ronny Vollandt, Elvira Wakelnig, Paul E. Walker, David J. Wasserstein, Tanja Werthmann, Dong Xiuyuan, Arye Zoref.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Omer Michaelis and Sabine Schmidtke -- Copyright Page / Omer Michaelis and Sabine Schmidtke -- An Interreligious “Encounter” in Four Visions of Daniel / Menahem Ben-Sasson -- The Enigma of the Brahmins: On Sarah Stroumsa’s Study of the Barāhima / Dong Xiuyuan -- The (Syro-)Hexapla in Arabic: An Editio Princeps and Translation of al-Ḥārith b. Sinān’s Introductory Tractate / Ronny Vollandt -- New Fragments of al-Qirqisānī’s Defense of Rational Speculation / Haggai Ben-Shammai -- Jews and Christians in Twelver Shīʿī Jurisprudence: Kitāb al-Khilāf of Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460/1067) / Robert Gleave -- Three Rings, Twelve Shields, a Thousand Drawings: The Value of Facsimiles in Religious Epistemology / Mark Silk -- Core and Shell: On the Close Relationship between Ancient Halakhah and Sharīʿa and the Gulf That Emerged between Them / Gideon Libson -- Neoplatonic Variations on a Pre-Socratic Theme: Transposing a Material Element into the Intelligible Realm / Tanja Werthmann -- Jewish Anti-Christian Polemics in Islamic Countries and the Unchanging Nature of the Jewish Critique of Christianity / Daniel J. Lasker -- State and Time. On 1 Samuel 8, 11–18 / Rémi Brague -- The Longer Theology of Aristotle , Book X .6–13: A Critical Edition and Translation / Alexander Treiger -- Is “One” Unique?* / Sari Nusseibeh -- Timing Is Everything: God, Causation, and Temporal Atomism in Medieval Islam / Jon McGinnis -- John Buridan on the Question of Immortality / Olaf Pluta -- “Time Is Life”: Piety, Punctuality, and Productivity in Modern Islamic Discourse / Gudrun Krämer -- Shahrazad’s Homiletic Stories: The Arabian Nights Reinterpreted / Anna Ayse Akasoy -- The Representation of the Tetragrammaton in the Medieval Karaite Transcriptions of Hebrew into Arabic Script / Geoffrey Khan -- The Construction of Noah’s Ark According to Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī / Miriam Goldstein -- “The mushabbiha Are the Jews of the umma ”: On the History of a Heresiographical Label / Ahmed El Shamsy -- “We Are ‘Those Firmly Rooted in Knowledge’ ” [Q 3:7]: Imāmī-Shīʿī Exegesis between Hermeneutics and Empiricism / Roy Vilozny -- Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Prolegomena to Medicine: The Introduction to His Commentary on Galen’s On Sects / Elvira Wakelnig -- Can Love Survive Politics? King David as Ruler in the Biblical Exegeses of Yefet ben Eli and Don Isaac Abravanel / Meira Polliack and Arye Zoref -- King Solomon’s maqṣūra : The Royal Image in Yefet ben Eli’s Commentary on Kings / Jonathan Decter -- A Dialogue of the Deaf: Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī’s Refutation of al-Ṭibb al-Rūḥānī by Abū Bakr al-Rāzī / Meir M. Bar-Asher -- Bīzhan and Manīzha , the Pleonastic -ā , and the Composition History of the Shāhnāma / Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila -- Allegorical Readings of Qohelet 7:19 in Medieval Jewish Exegesis / James Theodore Robinson -- Hermes and Simplicius in Ḥarrān: About Medieval and Modern Myths in the History of Philosophy / Daniel De Smet -- Rudolf Strothmann’s Trip to the Middle East (1929/30): II . Yemen / Sabine Schmidtke -- Convivencia vs. Race: On the Dangers of Extracting Morality from History / David Nirenberg -- A Paradigm Shift? Salomon Munk and Ernest Renan on Jewish and Arabic Philosophy / Guy G. Stroumsa -- Historiographical Debates and Modern Political Considerations in Writing a Cultural History of the Holy Land: A Byzantinist’s Perspective / Maria Mavroudi -- A Vanished Deuteronomy / Glen W. Bowersock.