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Beyond religious borders : interaction and intellectual exchange in the medieval Islamic world / / edited by David M. Freidenreich and Miriam Goldstein



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Titolo: Beyond religious borders : interaction and intellectual exchange in the medieval Islamic world / / edited by David M. Freidenreich and Miriam Goldstein Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
Disciplina: 305.60956/0902
Soggetto topico: Jews - Islamic Empire - Civilization
Islamic civilization
Soggetto geografico: Islamic Empire Ethnic relations
Soggetto non controllato: European History
History
Jewish Studies
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Religion
Religious Studies
World History
Altri autori: FreidenreichDavid M. <1977->  
GoldsteinMiriam Bayla  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Contexts of interreligious interaction -- pt. II. Adopting and accommodating the foreign -- pt. III. Crossing borders : agents of interaction and exchange.
Sommario/riassunto: The medieval Islamic world comprised a wide variety of religions. While individuals and communities in this world identified themselves with particular faiths, boundaries between these groups were vague and in some cases nonexistent. Rather than simply borrowing or lending customs, goods, and notions to one another, the peoples of the Mediterranean region interacted within a common culture. Beyond Religious Borders presents sophisticated and often revolutionary studies of the ways Jewish, Christian, and Muslim thinkers drew ideas and inspiration from outside the bounds of their own religious communities.Each essay in this collection covers a key aspect of interreligious relationships in Mediterranean lands during the first six centuries of Islam. These studies focus on the cultural context of exchange, the impact of exchange, and the factors motivating exchange between adherents of different religions. Essays address the influence of the shared Arabic language on the transfer of knowledge, reconsider the restrictions imposed by Muslim rulers on Christian and Jewish subjects, and demonstrate the need to consider both Jewish and Muslim works in the study of Andalusian philosophy. Case studies on the impact of exchange examine specific literary, religious, and philosophical concepts that crossed religious borders. In each case, elements native to one religious group and originally foreign to another became fully at home in both. The volume concludes by considering why certain ideas crossed religious lines while others did not, and how specific figures involved in such processes understood their own roles in the transfer of ideas.
Titolo autorizzato: Beyond religious borders  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-89803-9
0-8122-0691-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910822372403321
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Serie: Jewish culture and contexts.