عنوان

The religious and legal thought of Samuel ben Hofni Gaon:

شماره

TLpq303969975

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The religious and legal thought of Samuel ben Hofni Gaon:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

D. E. Sklare

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

Texts and studies in cultural history

نام ساير پديدآوران

I. Twersky

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Harvard University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1992

نام خاص و کميت اثر

733

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Harvard University

امتياز متن

1992

متن يادداشت

During the period of their decline in the tenth and early eleventh centuries, the Jewish Academies of Baghdad, the Gaonic Yeshivot, saw a spurt of literary creativity on the part of their heads, the Gaonim. Samuel ben Hofni Gaon, the head of the Academy of Sura, was particularly prolific. The little known of Samuel ben Hofni's life is reviewed and his literary output is described. His writing was motivated in part by the need to maintain the financial and intellectual integrity of the Yeshivot. In this effort, Samuel ben Hofni and other heads of the Yeshivot reached out to the highly-Arabicized Jewish population which did not have a Rabbinic education, but which looked to the Gaonim for intellectual leadership. The cultural context of his literary efforts is therefore surveyed, including the decline of the Yeshivot and the character of Jewish intellectual life outside of them. His works show a deep participation in the Arabic intellectual life around him. His theology was largely Mu'tazilite in nature. This can be seen in his epistemology and his conceptions of the obligation imposed by reason and revelation, the universality of law, and tradition. The delineation of his intellectual portrait is based largely on two of his works, reconstructed from manuscript fragments preserved by the Cairo Genizah. They are his Treatise on the Commandments and a collection of essays entitled Ten Questions. The Judeo-Arabic text and an annotated English translation are provided.

موضوع مستند نشده

Judeo-Arabic

موضوع مستند نشده

Language, literature and linguistics

موضوع مستند نشده

Persia

موضوع مستند نشده

Philosophy, religion and theology

موضوع مستند نشده

Religious history

موضوع مستند نشده

religious thought

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

D. E. Sklare

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

I. Twersky

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y