Strangers in the Land: Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69179-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Studies on the Children of Abraham

This volume explores the ways in which representatives of different monotheistic traditions experienced themselves as “the other” or were perceived and described as such by their contemporaries. This central category – which includes not only those of different religions, but also converts, foreigners, sectarians, and women – is studied from various perspectives in a range of texts composed by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim authors during late antique and mediaeval times. Conceptualizations of such “others” are often intrinsically related to the idea of exile, another important category that is analysed in this work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hjälm, Miriam L.

Zawanowska, Marzena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Transliteration

Strangers in the Land

Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times: an Introduction

Miriam L. Hjälm and Marzena Zawanowska

Part 1 In Quest for Timeless Meaning: The Other in Biblical Exegesis

1 Blessed Is the One Who Kills Infants: “The Other” in Eastern Christian Reception of Psalm 137

Miriam L. Hjälm

2 The Attitude of the Early Karaites to the Converts According to Their Interpretation of the Bible

Yoram Erder

3 The Treatment of Biblical Idols (Ar. a?nam) in Andalusi Hebrew Lexicography

Jose Martinez Delgado

4 The Vision of the “Other” in Menahem ha-Meiri’s Commentary on Psalms

Mariano Gomez Aranda

Part 2 Between Reality and Imagination: “The Other” in Documentary, Legal, and Mystical Sources

5 The Career of a Jewish exilé at the Muslim Court in Medieval al-Andalus: Samuel ha-Nagid as Dhimmi in Power, Hebrew Poet and Muslim Dignitary

Barbara Gryczan

6 Benevolent Strangers: The Founding of Granada, Zirid Memory and Ideology of Power in the Kitab al-tibyan of ?Abd Allah b. Buluqqin b. Ziri

Mateusz Wilk

7 “Double Strangers”: Women’s Conversion to Judaism in the Cairo Geniza Documents

Amir Ashur

8 Absent From Its World: The Image of Fallen Soul in al-Suhrawardi’s al-Waridat wa-l-taqdisat [Divine Inspirations and Sanctifications]

Lukasz Piatak

9 A Sharia Perspective on Inequality according to Selected Maliki Fatwas from Medieval Maghreb

Filip A. Jakubowski

Part 3 Recycling Sources, Constructing Traditions: “The Other and the Self” in Narratives on the Past

10 The Self as the Other in the Jewish Literature of the Egyptian Diaspora in the Hellenistic Period: The Case of the Letter of Aristeas

Agata Grzybowska

11 A Christian Away from Home: The Greek Sources of Abgar’s Legend Revisited

Sergio López Calero and Israel Muñoz Gallarte

12 An Idumean between Nabataeans and Romans: On the Source-Text of a Passage in Ma?ub al-Manbiji’s Kitab al-?unwan

Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala

13 The Exile of Cain in the Kitab al-?Unwan: An Ancient Tradition on the Melkite Literature

Lourdes Bonhome

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Miriam L. Hjälm, Ph.D. (2015) is lecturer in Eastern Christian Studies at Sankt Ignatios College, Sweden. Her publications focus on Christian Arabic translations and manuscripts and include Christian Arabic Versions of Daniel (Brill 2016), and ed. Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition (Brill 2017).

Marzena Zawanowska, Ph.D. (2008), University of Warsaw, is Associate Professor in the Faculty of History at that University. She has published on medieval Karaism, Karaite Bible exegesis and Judeo-Arabic tradition, including The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben 'Eli the Karaite on the Abraham Narratives (Genesis 11:10–25:18) (Brill, 2012), and ed. The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Warrior, Poet, Prophet and King (Brill, 2021)