Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context: Rationality, European Borders, and the Search for Belonging

370 Pages·2018·1.959 MB·English

by  Ottfried Fraisse (editor)

Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context
Studia Judaica
Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums
Begründet von
Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich
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Modern Jewish
Scholarship on Islam
in Context
Rationality, European Borders, and the Search
for Belonging

Edited by
Ottfried Fraisse
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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