Beyond Religious Borders: Interaction and Intellectual Exchange in the Medieval Islamic World

Table of Contents

c o n t e n t s Introduction 1 Miriam Goldstein PaRt i. Contexts oF inteRReliGious inteRaCtion Chapter 1. Observations on the Beginnings of Judeo-Arabic Civilization 13 haggai Ben-shammai Chapter 2. Shurūṭ ʿumar: From early harbingers to Systematic Enforcement 30 Milka levy-Rubin Chapter 3. Thinkers of “This Peninsula”: Toward an Integrative Approach to the Study of Philosophy in al-Andalus 44 sarah stroumsa PaRt ii. adoPtinG and aCCoMModatinG the FoReiGn Chapter 4. Translations in Contact: Early Judeo-Arabic and Syriac Biblical Translations 57 sagit Butbul Chapter 5. Claims About the Mishna in the Epistle of sherira Gaon: Islamic Theology and Jewish History 65 talya Fishman Chapter 6. Maimonides and the Arabic Aristotelian Tradition of Epistemology 78 Charles h. Manekin Chapter 7. Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Fakhkhār al-Yahūdī: An Arabic Poet and Diplomat in Castile and the Maghrib 96 Jonathan P. decter PaRt iii. CRossinG BoRdeRs: aGents oF inteRaCtion and exChanGe Chapter 8. The Impact of Interreligious Polemic on Medieval Philosophy 115 daniel J. lasker Chapter 9. Arabic into Hebrew: The Emergence of the Translation Movement in Twelfth-Century Provence and Jewish-Christian Polemic 124 Gad Freudenthal Chapter 10. Fusion Cooking in an Islamic Milieu: Jewish and Christian Jurists on Food Associated with Foreigners 144 david M. Freidenreich Notes 161 Index 215 Acknowledgments 223 ...