Strangers in the Land: Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times / / edited by Miriam L. Hjälm and Marzena Zawanowska.

• Superior document: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• TeilnehmendeR: Hjälm, Miriam L.,; Zawanowska, Marzena,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2024.; Studies on the Children of Abraham ; 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 pages)

This volume explores the ways in which representatives of different monotheistic traditions perceived and described or experienced themselves as “the other.” This central category – which includes not only those of different religions, but also converts, foreigners, sectarians, and women – is studied from various perspectives in a range of texts composed by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim authors during late antique and mediaeval times. Conceptualizations of such “others” are often intrinsically related to the idea of exile, another important category that is analysed in this work.

Table of Contents

Transliteration -- Strangers in the Land -- Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times: an Introduction -- Miriam L. Hjälm and Marzena Zawanowska -- Part 1 In Quest for Timeless Meaning: The Other in Biblical Exegesis -- 1 Blessed Is the One Who Kills Infants: “The Other” in Eastern Christian Reception of Psalm 137 -- Miriam L. Hjälm -- 2 The Attitude of the Early Karaites to the Converts According to Their Interpretation of the Bible -- Yoram Erder -- 3 The Treatment of Biblical Idols (Ar. aṣnām ) in Andalusi Hebrew Lexicography -- Jose Martinez Delgado -- 4 The Vision of the “Other” in Menahem ha-Meiri’s Commentary on Psalms -- Mariano Gomez Aranda -- Part 2 Between Reality and Imagination: “The Other” in Documentary, Legal, and Mystical Sources -- 5 The Career of a Jewish exilé at the Muslim Court in Medieval al-Andalus: Samuel ha-Nagid as Dhimmi in Power, Hebrew Poet and Muslim Dignitary -- Barbara Gryczan -- 6 Benevolent Strangers: The Founding of Granada, Zirid Memory and Ideology of Power in the Kitāb al-tibyān of ʿAbd Allāh b. Buluqqīn b. Zīrī -- Mateusz Wilk -- 7 “Double Strangers”: Women’s Conversion to Judaism in the Cairo Geniza Documents -- Amir Ashur -- 8 Absent From Its World: The Image of Fallen Soul in al-Suhrawardī’s al-Wāridāt wa-l-taqdisāt [Divine Inspirations and Sanctifications] -- Łukasz Piątak -- 9 A Sharia Perspective on Inequality according to Selected Maliki Fatwas from Medieval Maghreb -- Filip A. Jakubowski -- Part 3 Recycling Sources, Constructing Traditions: “The Other and the Self” in Narratives on the Past -- 10 The Self as the Other in the Jewish Literature of the Egyptian Diaspora in the Hellenistic Period: The Case of the Letter of Aristeas -- Agata Grzybowska -- 11 A Christian Away from Home: The Greek Sources of Abgar’s Legend Revisited -- Sergio López Calero and Israel Muñoz Gallarte -- 12 An Idumean between Nabataeans and Romans: On the Source-Text of a Passage in Maḥūb al-Manbijī’s Kitāb al-ʿunwān -- Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala -- 13 The Exile of Cain in the Kitāb al-ʿUnwān : An Ancient Tradition on the Melkite Literature -- Lourdes Bonhome -- Index.