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Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context Studia Judaica Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums Begründet von Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Herausgegeben von Günter Stemberger, Charlotte Fonrobert, Elisabeth Hollender, Alexander Samely und Irene Zwiep Band 108 Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context Rationality, European Borders, and the Search for Belonging Edited by Ottfried Fraisse ISBN 978-3-11-044491-9 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-044689-0 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-044609-8 ISSN 0585-5306 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018960712 Bibliografic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliografic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck ® MIX Papier aus verantwor- tungsvollen Quellen www.degruyter.com www.fsc.org FSC® C083411 Acknowledgements ThisvolumederivesfromaconferenceheldinFrankfurtin2014.Iwouldliketo expressmyheartfeltgratitudetoChristianWieseforhistremendoussupportin- strumentalinbringingthisconferencetoFrankfurt,includingtheassistancepro- videdbyGrazynaJurewiczandAnsgarMartinsfromthedepartmenthechairs.I am also especiallygrateful to Recha Allgaier-Honal, Felix Hedderich and Anna Grochockaformeticulouslyapplyingtheguidelinesofthestylesheettoallarti- cles submitted. I wish to thank Bill Templer for translations and proof-reading services that are as always of an extremely high standard. My thanks also go toananonymousproof-readerwhomadevaluablecommentsonallthearticles. Theconferenceandthepublicationofthevolumewouldnothavebeenpossible without the generous support of the Research Training Group“Theology as an Academic Discipline” at the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Union of Friends and Promoters of the Wolfgang Goethe-University and the International Office at the same university. Last but not least, I wish to thank the publisher and the editors for including this volume in the series Studia Judaica. Above all, I owe a debt of great gratitude to all the contributors to this volume,whose sug- gestive papers I found very stimulating for refining my own thinking and with whom it was a trulygreat pleasure and honor to work. July 2018 Ottfried Fraisse https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110446890-001 Table of Contents Ottfried Fraisse Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context: Rationality, European Borders, and the Search for Belonging 1 Yossef Schwartz Jewish Orientalism Pre-modern and Modern: Epochal Variations of Cultural Hybridity? 31 Susannah Heschel The Rise of Imperialism and the German Jewish Engagement in Islamic Studies 61 A) Self-Definition of the Scholar within Europe: The Self-Interested Inner Side of the European Borders is Unmasked, Though Still Dominant (Position 1) Ruchama Johnston-Bloom Gustav Weil’s Koranforschung and the Transnational Circulation of Ideas: The Shaping of Muhammad as Reformer 95 B) Self-Definition of the Scholar outside Europe, However, the Self-Interested Inner Side of the European Borders is Still Effective (Position 2) Miriam Frenkel Samuel Abraham Poznański’s Karaite Mission: From Wissenschaft to Jewish Nationalism 121 Gideon Libson Shlomo Dov Goitein’s Research into the Relationship between the Jewish and Muslim Traditions through the Prism of His Predecessors and Colleagues 145 VIII TableofContents Noam A. Stillman Islamici nil a me alienum puto: The Mindset of Jewish Scholars of Islamic Studies 181 C) Self-Definition of the Scholar within Europe, Though an Ambiguous Perspective on Both Sides of the European Borders is Developed (Position 3) Irene E. Zwiep Beyond Orientalism? Steinschneider on Islam, Religion and Plurality 201 Steven Harvey The Story of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Scholar’s Discovery of Plato’s Political Philosophy in Tenth-Century Islam: Leo Strauss’ Early Interest in the Islamic Falāsifa 219 Ottfried Fraisse Martin Schreiner’s Unpublished Systematic Philosophy of Religion: Adapting Ignác Goldziher’s Method for Researching Islam 245 Paul B. Fenton Salomon Munk and the Franco-Jewish Discovery of Orientalism 267 Reinhard Schulze Adapting Andalusian Convivencia: Merging Identities in the Modern Jewish Bourgeoisie 291 D) Self-Definition of the Scholar outside Europe, However, the Inner Perspective on the European Borders is Critically Evaluated as Part of His View from the Outside (Position 4) Hanan Harif The Orient between Arab and Jewish National Revivals: Josef Horovitz, Shelomo Dov Goitein and Oriental Studies in Jerusalem 319 TableofContents IX Yuval Evri Return to al-Andalus beyond German-Jewish Orientalism: Abraham Shalom Yahuda’s Critique of Modern Jewish Discourse 337 Index of Names 355 Subject Index 357
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