TY - BOOK AU - Schmidtke,Sabine TI - Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond Volume I: Essays in Honor of Sarah Stroumsa T2 - Islamic History and Civilization SN - 9789004682443 AV - DS35.4.A2 U1 - 909/.09767 23 PY - 2024/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Islamic learning and scholarship KW - History KW - Islamic philosophy KW - Jewish philosophy KW - Jews KW - Islamic countries N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Preliminary Material; Omer Michaelis and Sabine Schmidtke -- Part 1 History, Society and Religion -- Between Ribāṭ and Cabotage: The Coastal Economy of the Southern Levant in Late Antiquity; Gil Gambash -- Addiction to Books: Jewish Monotheism, Media Revolutions, and Cultural Memory; Aleida Assmann -- The Birth of New Messianic and Prophetic Movements under the Fatimids; Paul E. Walker -- A Letter from a Fatimid Official Recycled by ʿAlī b. Sulaymān for Qirqisānī Extracts: RNL Yevr.-Arab. I 1986; Marina Rustow -- The Subversion of Gender Hierarchies in Ṣaḥābī Dialogues; Uriel Simonsohn -- Between the Pulpit and the Battlefield: Contested Notions of Religious Authority in Modern Sunni Thought; Meir Hatina -- Job Looks Back: Religion Beyond the Age of Faith; Jan Assmann -- Part 2 Al-Andalus and Sefarad -- The Reception of Ibn Masarra into Sufism; José Bellver -- Reconsidering the Influence of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ on Ibn al-Sīd al-Baṭalyawsī’s Kitāb al-Dawāʾir; Godefroid de Callataÿ -- The Man Who Fled from Ibn al-Naghrīla; Camilla Adang -- Avot in al-Andalus; David J. Wasserstein -- Intellectualism and Anti-Intellectualism in al-Andalus: Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) Versus Ibn Ṭufayl (d. 581/1185); Michael Ebstein -- Interpreting Judah Halevi’s Kuzari : Leo Strauss, Shlomo Pines, and Beyond; Ehud Krinis -- Happiness ( Saʿāda ) in Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Thought; Binyamin Abrahamov -- The Aragonese Almohads, the Almohad Aragonese; Hussein Fancy -- Part 3 Maimonides and the Maimonidean Dynasty -- Philosophy as a Way of Life in Maimonides; Carlos Fraenkel -- Maimonides on God as Intellect; Warren Zev Harvey -- Two Divergent Schools in Sixth-/Twelfth-Century Arabic Philosophy and Maimonides’ Seventh Reason for Contradictions in Books; Frank Griffel -- Choosing Truth over Facts: Maimonides Finesses the Problem of Divine Attributes; Y. Tzvi Langermann -- From Knowledge ( ʿIlm ) to Intellect ( ʿAql ): On a Remarkable Terminological and Conceptual Shift in Maimonides’s Thought; Reimund Leicht -- Maimonides’s Conception of ʿAvodah; Menachem Lorberbaum -- Maimonides’s Dream Argument and the Certainty of Prophecy; Josef Stern -- The Perplexing Case of the Missing Happiness in Maimonides’s Guide; Steven Harvey -- ʿAlī b. Ṭaybughā’s Commentary on Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah , Sefer ha-Maddaʿ , Hilkhot Yesodei ha-Torah I – IV; Gregor Schwarb -- R. Abraham Maimonides’ Sufi-Inspired Commentary on the Practice of Solitude and Psalms 84 and 101; Sara Sviri N2 - Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond is a collection of essays 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. Contributors: Binyamin Abrahamov, Camilla Adang, Anna Ayse Akasoy, Aleida Assmann, Jan Assmann, Meir M. Bar-Asher, José Bellver, Menachem Ben-Sasson, Haggai Ben-Shammai, Glen W. Bowersock, Rémi Brague, Godefroid de Callataÿ, Jonathan Decter, Michael Ebstein, Hussein Fancy, Carlos Fraenkel, Gil Gambash, Robert Gleave, Miriam Goldstein, Frank Griffel, Jaakko HämeenAnttila, Steven Harvey, Warren Zev Harvey, Meir Hatina, Geoffrey Khan, Gudrun Krämer, Ehud Krinis, Y. Tzvi Langermann, Daniel J. Lasker, Reimund Leicht, Gideon Libson, Menachem Lorberbaum, Maria Mavroudi, Jon McGinnis, Omer Michaelis, Yonatan Moss, David Nirenberg, Sari Nusseibeh, Olaf Pluta, Meira Polliack, James T. Robinson, Marina Rustow, Sabine Schmidtke, Gregor Schwarb, Ahmed El Shamsy, Mark Silk, Uriel Simonsohn, Daniel De Smet, Josef Stern, Guy G. Stroumsa, Sara Sviri, Alexander Treiger, Roy Vilozny, Ronny Vollandt, Elvira Wakelnig, Paul E. Walker, David J. Wasserstein, Tanja Werthmann, Dong Xiuyuan, Arye Zoref. See Less UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004682450 ER -