Jüdisch-Muslimische Beziehungen in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

Josef Meri (ed.): Jewish-Muslim Relations in Past and Present. A Kaleidoscopic View.

 

Studies on the Children of Abraham, Vol. 5.
Leiden (NL): Brill 2017, XVI, 284 pp., illustr.

ISBN13: 

9789004235809 ---- E-ISBN: 9789004345737

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This volume assembles multidisciplinary research on the Judaeo-Islamic tradition in medieval and modern contexts. The introduction discusses the nature of this tradition and proposes the more fluid and inclusive designation of “Jewish-Muslim Relations.” Contributions highlight diverse aspects of Jewish-Muslim relations in medieval and modern contexts, including the academic study of Jewish history, the Qur’anic notion of the “upright community” referring to the “People of the Book,” Jews in medieval fatwas, use of Arabic and Hebrew script, Jewish prayer in Christian Europe and the Islamic world, the permissibility of Arabic music in modern Jewish thought, Jewish and Muslim feminist exegesis, modern Sephardic and Morisco identity, popular Tunisian song, Jewish-Muslim relations in cinema and A.S. Yehuda’s study of an 11th-century Jewish mystic.

Biographical note

Josef Meri, D.Phil. (1999), Oxford University, is Faculty Associate
at the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College, U.S.A.
He has published extensively on the history of Muslim-non-Muslim relations in the Middle East
in past and present.
He recently published (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations (2016)
and a historical introduction to Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Islam
is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements --- List of Figures --- List of Contributors --- Transliteration Note
Introduction: Josef Meri

1 The Academic Study of Islamicate Jewry: Norman A. Stillman

2 The “Upright Community”: Interpreting the Righteousness and Salvation
   of the People of the Book in the Qurʾān: Asma Afsaruddin

3 Jews and Muslims [Re]Define Gender Relations
   in Their Sacred Books: yimshol and qawwāmūn: Ruth Roded

4 How did Jewish Prayer in the Medieval Islamic World Differ
   from Its Equivalent in Christian Countries? Stefan C. Reif

5 A Matter of Script?
   Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic in the Genizah Collections: Esther-Miriam Wagner

6 Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Duties of Hearts:
  A.S. Yahuda and His Study of Judaism: Saeko Yazaki

7 A Fatwā by al-Māzarī (d. 536/1141) on a Jewish Silk Merchant in Gafsa: Camilla Adang

8 “There on the Poplars [Arabs] We Hung Up [Rely On] Our Lyres [Jewish Music]”:
   Rabbi ʿOvadyah Yosef’s Halakhic Rulings on Arabic Music: Merav Rosenfeld-Hadad

9 ‘Once Upon a Time Our Home Was in Spain’;
   Comparing Diaspora Discourses among Morisco Descendants and Sephardim Today:
 Marta Dominguez Diaz

10 Muslim-Jewish Relations in France through the Lens of Recent Cinema:
 Dinah Assouline Stillman

11 Remembering the Jewish Past through Song in Contemporary Tunisia: Ruth Davis

General Index