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Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond Volume II Essays in Honor of Sarah Stroumsa.

This is a collection of essays in two volumes 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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Schmidtke, Sabine
Other Authors: Michaelis, Omer
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2024.
Series:Islamic History and Civilization Series.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Part 4. The Whirlpool at Work: Ideas and Practices
  • Who Invented Writing? Changing Answers to a Rarely Asked Question among Biblical Readers of the First Millennium (Moss)
  • An Interreligious "Encounter" in Four Visions of Daniel (Ben-Sasson)
  • The Enigma of the Brahmins: On Sarah Stroumsa's Study of the Barāhima (Xiuyuan)
  • The (Syro-)Hexapla in Arabic: An Editio Princeps and Translation of al-Ḥārith b. Sinān's Introductory Tractate (Vollandt)
  • New Fragments of al-Qirqisānī's Defense of Rational Speculation (Ben-Shammai)
  • Jews and Christians in Twelver Shīʿī Jurisprudence: Kitāb al-Khilāf of Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460/1067) (Gleave)
  • Three Rings, Twelve Shields, a Thousand Drawings: The Value of Facsimiles in Religious Epistemology (Silk)
  • Core and Shell: On the Close Relationship between Ancient Halakhah and Sharīʿa and the Gulf That Emerged between Them (Libson)
  • Neoplatonic Variations on a Pre-Socratic Theme: Transposing a Material Element into the Intelligible Realm (Werthmann)
  • Jewish Anti-Christian Polemics in Islamic Countries and the Unchanging Nature of the Jewish Critique of Christianity (Lasker)
  • State and Time. On 1Samuel 8, 11-18 (Brague)
  • Part 5. Philosophy in the Islamicate World and Beyond
  • The Longer Theology of Aristotle, Book x.6-13: A Critical Edition and Translation (Treiger)
  • Is "One" Unique?* (Nusseibeh)
  • Timing Is Everything: God, Causation, and Temporal Atomism in Medieval Islam (McGinnis)
  • John Buridan on the Question of Immortality (Pluta)
  • "Time Is Life": Piety, Punctuality, and Productivity in Modern Islamic Discourse (Krämer)
  • Part 6. Intellectual History in the Islamicate World
  • Shahrazad's Homiletic Stories: The Arabian Nights Reinterpreted (Akasoy)
  • The Representation of the Tetragrammaton in the Medieval Karaite Transcriptions of Hebrew into Arabic Script (Khan)
  • The Construction of Noah's Ark According to Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī (Goldstein)
  • "The mushabbiha Are the Jews of the umma": On the History of a Heresiographical Label (El Shamsy)
  • "We Are 'Those Firmly Rooted in Knowledge'" [Q 3:7]: Imāmī-Shīʿī Exegesis between Hermeneutics and Empiricism (Vilozny)
  • Ibn al-Ṭayyib's Prolegomena to Medicine: The Introduction to His Commentary on Galen's On Sects (Wakelnig)
  • Can Love Survive Politics? King David as Ruler in the Biblical Exegeses of Yefet ben Eli and Don Isaac Abravanel (Polliack and Zoref)
  • King Solomon's maqṣūra: The Royal Image in Yefet ben Eli's Commentary on Kings (Decter)
  • A Dialogue of the Deaf: Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī's Refutation of al-Ṭibb al-Rūḥānī by Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (Bar-Asher)

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