Modern Jewish scholarship on Islam in context : rationality, European borders, and the search for belonging / edited by Ottfried Fraisse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fraisse, Ottfried, editor.

Series:

Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; Bd. 108.

Studia Judaica, 0585-5306 ; Band 108.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Study and teaching.

Islam.

Jewish learning and scholarship.

Judaism--Relations--Islam--History.

Judaism.

Relations.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 359 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2018].

Summary:

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 their research on Islam was also informed by their own changing perspectives on the geographic borders of Europe, which not only testifies to their search for belonging but also to their objective of refuting the colonial mechanisms of these borders and untying what most of them eventually saw as a European web of Oreintalism.

Contents:

Modern Jewish scholarship on Islam in context: rationality, European borders, and the search for belonging / Ottfried Fraisse

Jewish Orientalism pre-modern and modern: epochal variations of cultural hybridity? / Yossef Schwartz

The rise of Imperialism and the German Jewish engagement in Islamic studies / Susannah Heschel

A) Self-definition of the scholar within Europe: The self-interested inner side of the European borders is unmasked, though still dominant (Postion 1)

Gustav Weil's Koranforschung and the transnational circulation of ideas: The shaping of Muhammad as reformer / Ruchama Johnston-Bloom

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 / Miriam Frenkel Shlomo Dov Goitein's research into the relationship between the Jewish and Muslim traditions through the prism of his predecessors and colleagues / Gideon Libson

Islamici nil a me allenum puto: The mindset of Jewish scholars of Islamic studies / Noam Stillman

C) Self-definition of the scholar within Europe, though an ambiguous perspective on both sides of the European borders is developed (Postion 3)

Beyond Orientalism? Steinschneider on Islam, religion and plurality / Irene E. Zwiep

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 / Steven Harvey

Martin Schreiner's unpublished Systematic Philosophy of Religion: adapting Ignác Goldziher's method for researching Islam / Ottfried Fraisse

Salomon Munk and the Franco-Jewish discovery of Orientalism / Paul B. Fenton Adapting Andalusian Convivencia: merging identities in the modern Jewish bourgeoisie / Reinhard Schulze

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 / Hanan Harif

Return to al-Andalus beyond German-Jewish Orientalism: Abraham Shalom Yahuda's critique of modern Jewish discours / Yuval Evri.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3110444917

9783110444919

OCLC:

1076804560