Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Sarah Stroumsa (2) (Islamic History and Civilization)

This is a collection of essays in two volumes 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. ‎Contents 6 ‎Part 4. The Whirlpool at Work: Ideas and Practices 14 ‎Who Invented Writing? Changing Answers to a Rarely Asked Question among Biblical Readers of the First Millennium (Moss) 16 ‎An Interreligious “Encounter” in Four Visions of Daniel (Ben-Sasson) 57 ‎The Enigma of the Brahmins: On Sarah Stroumsa’s Study of the Barāhima (Xiuyuan) 88 ‎The (Syro-)Hexapla in Arabic: An Editio Princeps and Translation of al-Ḥārith b. Sinān’s Introductory Tractate (Vollandt) 102 ‎New Fragments of al-Qirqisānī’s Defense of Rational Speculation (Ben-Shammai) 137 ‎Jews and Christians in Twelver Shīʿī Jurisprudence: Kitāb al-Khilāf of Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460/1067) (Gleave) 159 ‎Three Rings, Twelve Shields, a Thousand Drawings: The Value of Facsimiles in Religious Epistemology (Silk) 189 ‎Core and Shell: On the Close Relationship between Ancient Halakhah and Sharīʿa and the Gulf That Emerged between Them (Libson) 203 ‎Neoplatonic Variations on a Pre-Socratic Theme: Transposing a Material Element into the Intelligible Realm (Werthmann) 255 ‎Jewish Anti-Christian Polemics in Islamic Countries and the Unchanging Nature of the Jewish Critique of Christianity (Lasker) 276 ‎State and Time. On 1Samuel 8, 11–18 (Brague) 290 ‎Part 5. Philosophy in the Islamicate World and Beyond 304 ‎The Longer Theology of Aristotle, Book x.6–13: A Critical Edition and Translation (Treiger) 306 ‎Is “One” Unique?* (Nusseibeh) 344 ‎Timing Is Everything: God, Causation, and Temporal Atomism in Medieval Islam (McGinnis) 359 ‎John Buridan on the Question of Immortality (Pluta) 377 ‎“Time Is Life”: Piety, Punctuality, and Productivity in Modern Islamic Discourse (Krämer) 399 ‎Part 6. Intellectual History in the Islamicate World 422 ‎Shahrazad’s Homiletic Stories: The Arabian Nights Reinterpreted (Akasoy) 424 ‎The Representation of the Tetragrammaton in the Medieval Karaite Transcriptions of Hebrew into Arabic Script (Khan) 443 ‎The Construction of Noah’s Ark According to Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī (Goldstein) 456 ‎“The mushabbiha Are the Jews of the umma”: On the History of a Heresiographical Label (El Shamsy) 477 ‎“We Are ‘Those Firmly Rooted in Knowledge’” [Q 3:7]: Imāmī-Shīʿī Exegesis between Hermeneutics and Empiricism (Vilozny) 508 ‎Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Prolegomena to Medicine: The Introduction to His Commentary on Galen’s On Sects (Wakelnig) 526 ‎Can Love Survive Politics? King David as Ruler in the Biblical Exegeses of Yefet ben Eli and Don Isaac Abravanel (Polliack and Zoref) 565 ‎King Solomon’s maqṣūra: The Royal Image in Yefet ben Eli’s Commentary on Kings (Decter) 590 ‎A Dialogue of the Deaf: Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī’s Refutation of al-Ṭibb al-Rūḥānī by Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (Bar-Asher) 604 ‎Bīzhan and Manīzha, the Pleonastic -ā, and the Composition History of the Shāhnāma (Hämeen-Anttila) 625 ‎Allegorical Readings of Qohelet 7:19 in Medieval Jewish Exegesis (Robinson) 634 ‎Part 7. On Modern Scholars and Scholarship 658 ‎Hermes and Simplicius in Ḥarrān: About Medieval and Modern Myths in the History of Philosophy (De Smet) 660 ‎Rudolf Strothmann’s Trip to the Middle East (1929/30): ii. Yemen (Schmidtke) 683 ‎Convivencia vs. Race: On the Dangers of Extracting Morality from History (Nirenberg) 698 ‎A Paradigm Shift? Salomon Munk and Ernest Renan on Jewish and Arabic Philosophy (Stroumsa) 721 ‎Historiographical Debates and Modern Political Considerations in Writing a Cultural History of the Holy Land: A Byzantinist’s Perspective (Mavroudi) 744 ‎A Vanished Deuteronomy (Bowersock) 787 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 Hämeen Anttila, 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.