Judaeo-Arabic studies : proceedings of the Founding Conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies /

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Corporate Author: Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies. Conference.

Other Authors: Golb, Norman.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Amsterdam : Harwood Academic Publishers, c1997.

Series: Studies in Muslim-Jewish relations ; 3.

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Call Number: DS124 .J83 1997

Table of Contents:
  • Opening remarks of S.D. Goitein
  • The emergence of the Qayrawān Jewish community and its importance as a Maghrebi community / Menahem Ben-Sasson
  • Jewish thought in Iraq in the 10th century / H. Ben-Shammai
  • Judaeo-Arabic thought in Spain and North Africa : problems and prospects / L.V. Berman
  • The linguistic status of medieval Judaeo-Arabic / Joshua Blau
  • Popular literature in medieval Jewish Arabic / William M. Brinner
  • Jewish communal organization in Medieval Egypt : research, results and prospects / Mark R. Cohen
  • Judaeo-Arabic mystical writings of the XIIIth-XIVth centuries / Paul B. Fenton
  • Philosophy or exegesis : perennial problems in the study of some Judaeo-Arabic authors / Hillel Fradkin
  • Developments in Jewish marriage and family law as reflected in the Cairo Geniza documents / Mordechai A. Friedman
  • The Babylonian encounter and the Exilarchic House in the light of Cairo Geniza documents and parallel Arab sources / Moshe Gil
  • The meaning of terms designating love in Judaeo-Arabic thought and some remarks on the Judaeo-Arabic interpretation of Maimonides / Steven Harvey
  • Jewish Aristotelianism : trends from the 12th through the 14th centuries / Arthur Hyman
  • Philosophy or exegesis : some critical comments / Josef Stern
  • The Jews of the Islamic West in the perspective of "La longue Durée" / Norman A. Stillman
  • Jewish polemics against Islam and Christianity in the light of Judaeo-Arabic texts / Sarah Stroumsa.