Judaeo-Arabic studies
Subtitle: proceedings of the Founding Conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies
By: edited by Norman Golb.
Contributors: Golb, Norman.
Series: Studies in Muslim-Jewish relations ;; [v. 3]
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Judeo-Arabic philology -- Congresses.; Jews -- Islamic countries -- Civilization -- Congresses.; Judaism -- Islamic countries -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Proceedings of the Founding Conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Opening remarks of S.D. Goitein; title: The emergence of the Qayrawān Jewish community and its importance as a Maghrebi community / Menahem Ben-Sasson; title: Jewish thought in Iraq in the 10th century / H. Ben-Shammai; title: Judaeo-Arabic thought in Spain and North Africa : problems and prospects / L.V. Berman; title: The linguistic status of medieval Judaeo-Arabic / Joshua Blau; title: Popular literature in medieval Jewish Arabic / William M. Brinner; title: Jewish communal organization in Medieval Egypt : research, results and prospects / Mark R. Cohen; title: Judaeo-Arabic mystical writings of the XIIIth-XIVth centuries / Paul B. Fenton; title: Philosophy or exegesis : perennial problems in the study of some Judaeo-Arabic authors / Hillel Fradkin; title: Developments in Jewish marriage and family law as reflected in the Cairo Geniza documents / Mordechai A. Friedman; title: The Babylonian encounter and the Exilarchic House in the light of Cairo Geniza documents and parallel Arab sources / Moshe Gil; title: The meaning of terms designating love in Judaeo-Arabic thought and some remarks on the Judaeo-Arabic interpretation of Maimonides / Steven Harvey; title: Jewish Aristotelianism : trends from the 12th through the 14th centuries / Arthur Hyman; title: Philosophy or exegesis : some critical comments / Josef Stern; title: The Jews of the Islamic West in the perspective of "La longue Durée" / Norman A. Stillman; title: Jewish polemics against Islam and Christianity in the light of Judaeo-Arabic texts / Sarah Stroumsa.