Research Catalog

Title

Studies in Islamic and Judaic traditions : papers presented at the Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver / edited by William M. Brinner and Stephen D. Ricks.

Publication

Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1986.

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Additional Authors

• Brinner, William M.
• Ricks, Stephen David
• University of Denver. Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies.

Description

xiii, 273 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Brown Judaic studies ; no. 110

Uniform Title

Brown Judaic studies no. 110.

Subject

• Islam > Judaism
• Islam > Judaism > Congresses
• Islamic law > Congresses
• Islamic law
• Islamic philosophy > Congresses
• Jewish law > Congresses
• Jewish law
• Jewish philosophy > Congresses
• Judaism > Islam
• Judaism > Islam > Congresses
• Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
• Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 > Congresses
• Philosophy, Medieval > Congresses
• Philosophy, Medieval

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Vol.1 Foreword / Stanley M. Wagner -- Introduction / William M. Brinner -- ʻUzayr in the Qurʼan and Muslim tradition / Mahmoud Ayoub -- The drowned son : Midrash and Midrash making in the Qurʼan and Tāfsīr / Gordon D. Newby -- Saʻadya Gaon and Genesis 22 : aspects of Jewish-Muslim interaction and polemic / Andrew Rippin -- New approaches to "biblical" material in the Qurʼan / Marilyn Robinson Waldman -- An Islamic decalogue / William M. Brinne -- Supererogration in Jewish Hallakhah and Islamic Sharīʻa / Joshua Halberstam -- Tajdīd al-Dīn : a reconsideration of tis meaning, roots, and influence in Islam / Hava Lazarus-Yafeh -- Reading/Misreading one another's Scriptures : Ibn Ḥazm's refutation of Ibn Nagrella al-Yahūdi / David S. Powers -- Kinship bars to marriage in Jewish and Islamic law / Stephen D. Ricks -- Adab al-Qāḍī and the protection rights at court / Farhat J. Ziadeh -- Maimonides and Islam / George F. Hourani --
• The toleration of ethics and the ethics of tolerance in Judaism and Islam / Alfred L. Ivry -- Rejecting moral virtue as the ultimate human end / Raphael Jospe -- The rule of law and the rule of wisdom in Plato, al-Fārābī, and Maimonides / Jeffrey Macy -- The treatment of Islam and Muslims in the legal writings of Maimonides / David Novak -- Vol.2 Introduction / William M. Brinner -- Maimonides' responses to Saʻadya Gaon's Theodicy and their Islamic backgrounds / Lenn E. Goodman -- Islamic influences on Karaite origins / Daniel J. Lasker -- Early Muslim traditions and their familiarity with Jewish sources / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- Prophets and prophecy in the Islamic and Jewish traditions / William M. Brinner -- Orthopraxy in Islam and Judaism : convictions and categories / Frederick M. Denny -- When the "Way" becomes the "Law" : modern states and the transformation of Halakhah and Sharīʻa / Gregory C. Kolowski --
• Revve and Pīr : ideology, action, and personhood in Ḥassidism and Ṣūfism / Stephen Pastner and Rhonda Berger-Sofer -- Communal and individual interactions in nineteenth-century Moroccan Jewry / Shlomo Deshen -- The problems of conversion among Iranian Jews in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Vera Moreen -- Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī on construction, continuance, and repair of churches and synagogues in Islamic law / Seth Ward -- The reflection of social and religious priorities in Arabic literature / Pierre Cachia -- Recasting Islamic modernism : in search of Islamic ethics / Tamara Sonn. Jewish philosophy. Islamic philosophy.

ISBN

• 1555400485 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1555400477 (hard : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^86015552^

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