عنوان

'All the kings of Arabia are seeking your counsel and advice': Intellectual and cultural exchange between Jews and Muslims in the Later Middle Islamic Period

Number

TL48791

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

'All the kings of Arabia are seeking your counsel and advice': Intellectual and cultural exchange between Jews and Muslims in the Later Middle Islamic Period

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Liran  Yadgar

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Lewis, Franklin

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

179

Text of Note

Committee members: Bashkin, Orit; Donner, Fred M.; Nirenberg, David

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-87419-7

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Body granting the degree

The University of Chicago

Text preceding or following the note

2016

Text of Note

In his 1955 survey of Jewish-Arab relations, 'Jews and Arabs: Their Contacts through the Ages,' S.D. Goitein, a leading scholar of Jewish history in the Medieval Islamic lands, gives almost no attention to the Later Islamic Middle Period (thirteenth-fifteenth century). In fact, Goitein concluded that in the thirteenth century "Arabs faded out from world history, and Oriental Jews from Jewish history." Thus, he did not consider the history of Jews in the Islamic lands to be of any significance until the modern era (starting in 1800, according to his periodization). Islamic and Jewish histories were perceived to be intertwined in the pre-thirteenth century into what Goitein called 'Jewish-Arab symbiosis,' an idea that has been much popularized in later scholarship as the 'Judeo-Muslim symbiosis.' In this paradigm, Jews and Muslims achieved the highest intellectual, cultural, and scientific achievements due to the tolerant character of the 'Arab' Muslim rule, a character that was lost gradually due to the rise to power of non-Arab peoples within the Islamic lands (the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria, and the Almohads in the Islamic West). This dissertation wishes to challenge the 'decline theory' regarding Jewish life in the 'post-classical' era of Islam through the examination of three treatises from Egypt and the Maghrib. It argues that traditional periodization of Islamic history affected the historiography of Jewish life under medieval Islam, and that by studying the 'Jewish-Arab symbiosis' outside the confines of 'classical' Islam, a different image of medieval Jewish history could be reconstructed.

Biblical studies; Middle Eastern history; Islamic Studies; Judaic studies; Arabs; Jews; Historiography

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Biblical commentary;Egypt;Jewish mysticism;Jewish-muslim symbiosis;Maghrib;Religious polemics

Kamel, Rachael

Lewis, Franklin

Subdivision

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

The University of Chicago

Call Number

1799663231; 10129528

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