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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of essays in two volumes in honor of Sarah Stroumsa, an eminent scholar who through the years has embodied and advanced the possibility of collaboration across borders. The volume is presented to her by scholars working on the study of the intellectual history of the Middle Ages, the intercultural contact and migration of knowledge in the Islamic world, and many other topics.
Table of Contentsa. Tabula Gratulatoria b. Preface c. Sarah Stroumsa: List of Publications d. Sabine Schmidtke, Questioning ... Sarah Stroumsa History, Society and Religion 1. Gil Gambash, Between Ribāṭand Cabotage: The Coastal Economy of the Southern Levant in Late Antiquity 2. Aleida Assmann, Addiction to Books: Jewish Monotheism, Media Revolutions, and Cultural Memory 3. Paul E. Walker, The Birth of New Messianic and Prophetic Movements under the Fatimids 4. Marina Rustow, A Letter from a Fatimid Official Recycled by ʿAlī b. Sulaymān for Qirqisānī Extracts: RNL Yevr.-Arab. I 1986 5. Uriel Simonsohn, The Subversion of Gender Hierarchies in Ṣaḥābī Dialogues 6. Meir Hatina, Between the Pulpit and the Battlefield: Contested Notions of Religious Authority in Modern Sunni Thought 7. Jan Assmann, Job Looks Back: Religion Beyond the Age of Faith Al-Andalus and Sefarad 8. José Bellver, The Reception of Ibn Masarra into Sufism 9. Godefroid de Callataÿ, Reconsidering the Influence of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ on Ibn al-Sīd al-Baṭalyawsī’s Kitāb al-Dawāʾir 10. Camilla Adang, The man who fled from Ibn al-Naghrīla 11. David J. Wasserstein, Avot in al-Andalus 12. Michael Ebstein, Intellectualism and Anti-Intellectualism in al-Andalus: Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) Versus Ibn Ṭufayl (d. 581/1185) 13. Ehud Krinis, Interpreting Judah Halevi’s Kuzari: Leo Strauss, Shlomo Pines, and Beyond 14. Benyamin Abrahamov, Happiness (Saʿāda) in Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Thought 15. Hussein Fancy, The Aragonese Almohads, the Almohad Aragonese Maimonides and the Maimonidean Dynasty 16. Carlos Fraenkel, Philosophy as a Way of Life in Maimonides 17. Warren Z. Harvey, Maimonides on God as Intellect 18. Frank Griffel, Two Divergent Schools in Sixth-/Twelfth-Century Arabic Philosophy and Maimonides’ Seventh Reason for Contradictions in Books 19. Y. Tzvi Langermann, Choosing Truth over Facts: Maimonides Finesses the Problem of Divine Attributes 20. Reimund Leicht, From Knowledge (ʿIlm) to Intellect (ʿAql): On a Remarkable Terminological and Conceptual Shift in Maimonides’s Thought 21. Menachem Lorberbaum, Maimonides' Conception of ʿAvodah 22. Josef Stern, Maimonides’ Dream Argument and the Certainty of Prophecy 23. Steven Harvey, The Perplexing Case of the Missing Happiness in Maimonides’ Guide 24. Gregor Schwarb, ʿAlī ibn Ṭaybughā’s Commentary on Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-Maddaʿ, Hilkhot Yesodei ha-Torah I–IV, a Philosophical “Encyclopaedia” of the Fourteenth Century 25. Sara Sviri, R. Abraham Maimonides’ Sufi-Inspired Commentary on the Practice of Solitude and Psalms 84 and 101 The Whirlpool at Work: Ideas and Practices 26. Yonatan Moss, Who Invented Writing? Changing Answers to a Rarely Asked Question among Biblical Readers of the First Millennium 27. Menahem Ben-Sasson, An Interreligious “Encounter” in Four Visions of Daniel 28. Dong Xiuyuan, The Enigma of the Brahmins: On Sarah Stroumsa’s Study of the Barāhima 29. Ronny Vollandt, The (Syro-)Hexapla in Arabic: An Editio Princepsand Translation of al-Ḥārith b. Sinān’s Introductory Tractate 30. Haggai Ben-Shammai, New Fragments of al-Qirqisānī’s Defense of Rational Speculation 31. Robert Gleave, Jews and Christians in Twelver Shīʿī Jurisprudence: Kitāb al-Khilāf of Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460/1067) 32. Mark Silk, Three Rings, Twelve Shields, a Thousand Drawings: The Value of Facsimiles in Religious Epistemology 33. Gideon Libson, Core and Shell: On the Close Relationship between Ancient Halakhah and Sharīʿa and the Gulf that Emerged between Them 34. Tanja Werthmann, Neoplatonic Variations on a Pre-Socratic Theme: Transposing a Material Element into the Intelligible Realm 35. Daniel J. Lasker, Jewish Anti-Christian Polemics in Islamic Countries and the Unchanging Nature of the Jewish Critique of Christianity 36. Rémi Brague, State and Time on 1 Samuel 8, 11–18 Philosophy in the Islamicate World and Beyond 37. Alexander Treiger, The Longer Theology of Aristotle, Book X.6-13: A Critical Edition and Translation 38. Sari Nusseibeh, Is “One” Unique? 39. Jon McGinnis, Timing Is Everything: God, Causation, and Temporal Atomism in Medieval Islam 40. Olaf Pluta, John Buridan on the Question of Immortality 41. Gudrun Krämer, “Time is Life”: Piety, Punctuality, and Productivity in Modern Islamic Discourse Intellectual History in the Islamicate World 42. Anna Akasoy, Shahrazad’s Homiletic Stories: The Arabian Nights Reinterpreted 43. Geoffrey Khan, The Representation of the Tetragrammaton in the Medieval Karaite Transcriptions of Hebrew into Arabic Script 44. Miriam Goldstein, The Construction of Noah’s Ark according to Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī 45 Ahmed El Shamsy, “The Mushabbiha Are the Jews of the Umma”: On the History of a Heresiographical Label 46. Roy Vilozny, “We are ‘those firmly rooted in knowledge’” [Q 3:7]: Imāmī-Shīʿī Exegesis between Hermeneutics and Empiricism 47. Elvira Wakeling, Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Prolegomena to Medicine: The Introduction to His Commentary on Galen’s On Sects 48. Meira Polliack and Arye Zoref, Can Love Survive Politics? King David as Ruler in the Biblical Exegeses of Yefet ben Eli and Don Isaac Abravanel 49. Jonathan Decter, King Solomon’s maqṣūra: The Royal Image in Yefet ben Eli’s Commentary on Kings 50. Meir M. Bar-Asher, A Dialogue of the Deaf: Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī’s Refutation of al-Ṭibb al-Rūḥānī by Abū Bakr al-Rāzī 51. Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Bīzhan and Manīzha, the Pleonastic -ā, and the Composition History of the Shāhnāma 52. James T. Robinson, Allegorical Readings of Qohelet 7:19 in Medieval Jewish Exegesis: The “Ten Rulers in the City” as Body Parts, Celestial Spheres, Psychic Faculties, or Internal and External Senses On Modern Scholars and Scholarship 53. Daniel De Smet, Hermes and Simplicius in Ḥarrān: About Medieval and Modern Myths in the History of Philosophy 54. Sabine Schmidtke, Rudolf Strothmann’s Trip to the Middle East (1929/30): II. Yemen 55. David Nirenberg, Convivencia vs. Race: On the Dangers of Extracting Morality from History 56.Guy Stroumsa, A Paradigm Shift? Salomon Munk and Ernest Renan on Jewish and Arabic Philosophy 57. Maria Mavroudi, Historiographical Debates and Modern Political Considerations in Writing a Cultural History of the Holy Land: A Byzantinist’s Perspective 58.Glen W. Bowersock, A Vanished Deuteronomy
