‘Our Place in al-Andalus’
Title | ‘Our Place in al-Andalus’ PDF eBook |
Author | Gil Anidjar |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804741217 |
This book offers a reading of Andalusi, Jewish, and Arabic texts that represent the 12th and 13th centuries as the end of el-Andalus (Islamic Spain).
"Our Place in Al-Andalus"
Title | "Our Place in Al-Andalus" PDF eBook |
Author | Gil Anidjar |
Publisher | Cultural Memory in the Present |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804741200 |
This book offers a reading of Andalusi, Jewish, and Arabic texts that represent the 12th and 13th centuries as the end of el-Andalus (Islamic Spain).
"Our Place in Al-Andalus"
Title | "Our Place in Al-Andalus" PDF eBook |
Author | Gil David Anidjar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 826 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Jewish literature |
ISBN |
Maimonides in His World
Title | Maimonides in His World PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Stroumsa |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2009-08-31 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1400831326 |
While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as related primarily to Islamic philosophy. Maimonides in His World challenges this view by revealing him to have wholeheartedly lived, breathed, and espoused the rich Mediterranean culture of his time. Sarah Stroumsa argues that Maimonides is most accurately viewed as a Mediterranean thinker who consistently interpreted his own Jewish tradition in contemporary multicultural terms. Maimonides spent his entire life in the Mediterranean region, and the religious and philosophical traditions that fed his thought were those of the wider world in which he lived. Stroumsa demonstrates that he was deeply influenced not only by Islamic philosophy but by Islamic culture as a whole, evidence of which she finds in his philosophy as well as his correspondence and legal and scientific writings. She begins with a concise biography of Maimonides, then carefully examines key aspects of his thought, including his approach to religion and the complex world of theology and religious ideas he encountered among Jews, Christians, Muslims, and even heretics; his views about science; the immense and unacknowledged impact of the Almohads on his thought; and his vision of human perfection. This insightful cultural biography restores Maimonides to his rightful place among medieval philosophers and affirms his central relevance to the study of medieval Islam.
Perspectives on Maimonides
Title | Perspectives on Maimonides PDF eBook |
Author | Joel L. Kraemer |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1909821438 |
'It will allow students to possess a volume that will acquaint them with high standards of scholarship, showing at the same time that although so much has been said and written about Maimonides, it is still possible to come up with new and interesting insights into his life and works, which continue to be interpreted very differently by different scholars.' - Gad Freudenthal, Journal of Religious History
"Our Place in Al-Andalus"
Title | "Our Place in Al-Andalus" PDF eBook |
Author | Gil Anidjar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture
Title | Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Ross Brann |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2004-01-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780812237429 |
Looking to contexts ranging from premodern Spain and Italy to nineteenth-century Russia, Germany, and America, the contributors to this volume explore the ways the political and intellectual aspirations of successive historical presents have repeatedly reshaped the forms and narratives of Jewish cultural memory.