Collection(s) : Collection de la Revue des études juives
Paru le 15/12/2007 | Broché X-441 pages
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The interconnections, common interests, and other linkages between the Jewish and Islamic traditions have long been a matter of interest to academics. Today the need to understand these relationships, and to emphasize commonalities rather than conflicts, is of the greatest public interest. The present volume of studies, likely the first such collection in the scholarly literature, explores the full range of interconnections between Jews and Muslims in all fields (intellectual history, religion, philosophy, social history, etc.) and in all periods, from the Middle Ages till today. The essays have been written by some twenty distinguished scholars from North America, Europe, and Israel.
The volume is dedicated to our esteemed colleague Joel L. Kraemer, John Barrows Professor Emeritus in the Divinity School and on the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago. In the course of his distinguished career Professor Kraemer has made major contributions to our understanding of the intellectual and cultural history of the Jews in the Arabic world, Islamic and Jewish philosophy and their sources in ancient philosophy, the humanistic renaissance in Islam (on which he published two seminal monographs), and Maimonides (on which he has published many important papers and is completing a biography and a translation of Maimonides'letters, to appear in the Yale Judaica Series).
Tzvi Langermann received his PhD in History of Science from Harvard and now is Professor in the Department of Arabic, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. He is the author of Yemenite Midrash, The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages, and an extensive list of articles on a variety of topics in medieval Jewish and Islamic science and philosophy.
Josef Stern is Professor in and Associate Chair of the Department of Philosophy and in the Committee on Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. He has published widely in contemporary philosophy of language and in medieval philosophy, especially on Maimonides and other topics in medieval Jewish Philosophy.
