Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond Volume I

Sabine Schmidtke is a Professor of Islamic intellectual history in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She has published on topics ranging from Shism (Zaydism and Twelver Shism), intersections of Jewish and Muslim intellectual history, Wissenschaft des Judentums, the Arabic Bible, and the history of the book and libraries in the Islamicate world. Her recent publications include The Beginnings of Shii Studies in Germany: Rudolf Strothmann and His Correspondence with Carl Heinrich Becker, Ignaz Goldziher, Eugeneo Griffini, and Conrelis van Arendonk, 1910 through 1926 (2023), Al-arf al-Murtas Oeuvre and Thought in Context: An Archaeological Inquiry into Texts and their Transmission (2022) coedited with Hassan Ansari; Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible: Texts and Studies (2019), with Camilla Adang; and Traditional Yemeni Scholarship amidst Political Turmoil and War: Muammad b. Muammad b. Isml b. al-Muahhar al-Manr (19152016) and His Personal Library (2018). Omer Michaelis is an Associate Professor at Tel Aviv Universitys department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud. Specializing in medieval Jewish thought and philosophy in the Islamicate world, he focuses on the dynamics of production, transmission and integration of knowledge in medieval Judaism, and its intersection with parallel processes in the Islamic culture. His recenct publications include Crisis Discourse and the Dynamics of Tradition in Maimonides' Oeuvre (Magnes Press) and Interiority & Law: Bahya ibn Paquda and the Concept of Inner Commandments (Stanford UP), published in 2023.

• a. Tabula Gratulatoria b. Prefacec. Sarah Stroumsa: List of Publicationsd. Sabine Schmidtke, Questioning ... Sarah StroumsaHistory, Society and Religion1. Gil Gambash, Between Ribāṭand Cabotage: The Coastal Economy of the Southern Levant in Late Antiquity 2. Aleida Assmann, Addiction to Books: Jewish Monotheism, Media Revolutions, and Cultural Memory3. Paul E. Walker, The Birth of New Messianic and Prophetic Movements under the Fatimids4. Marina Rustow, A Letter from a Fatimid Official Recycled by ʿAlī b. Sulaymān for Qirqisānī Extracts: RNL Yevr.-Arab. I 1986 5. Uriel Simonsohn, The Subversion of Gender Hierarchies in Ṣaḥābī Dialogues6. Meir Hatina, Between the Pulpit and the Battlefield: Contested Notions of Religious Authority in Modern Sunni Thought7. Jan Assmann, Job Looks Back: Religion Beyond the Age of Faith Al-Andalus and Sefarad8. José Bellver, The Reception of Ibn Masarra into Sufism9. Godefroid de Callataÿ, Reconsidering the Influence of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ on Ibn al-Sīd al-Baṭalyawsī’s Kitāb al-Dawāʾir 10. Camilla Adang, The man who fled from Ibn al-Naghrīla11. David J. Wasserstein, Avot in al-Andalus12. Michael Ebstein, Intellectualism and Anti-Intellectualism in al-Andalus: Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) Versus Ibn Ṭufayl (d. 581/1185) 13. Ehud Krinis, Interpreting Judah Halevi’s Kuzari: Leo Strauss, Shlomo Pines, and Beyond14. Benyamin Abrahamov, Happiness (Saʿāda) in Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Thought15. Hussein Fancy, The Aragonese Almohads, the Almohad AragoneseMaimonides and the Maimonidean Dynasty16. Carlos Fraenkel, Philosophy as a Way of Life in Maimonides17. Warren Z. Harvey, Maimonides on God as Intellect18. Frank Griffel, Two Divergent Schools in Sixth-/Twelfth-Century Arabic Philosophy and Maimonides’ Seventh Reason for Contradictions in Books19. Y. Tzvi Langermann, Choosing Truth over Facts: Maimonides Finesses the Problem of Divine Attributes20. Reimund Leicht, From Knowledge (ʿIlm) to Intellect (ʿAql): On a Remarkable Terminological and Conceptual Shift in Maimonides’s Thought21. Menachem Lorberbaum, Maimonides' Conception of ʿAvodah22. Josef Stern, Maimonides’ Dream Argument and the Certainty of Prophecy23. Steven Harvey, The Perplexing Case of the Missing Happiness in Maimonides’ Guide24. Gregor Schwarb, ʿAlī ibn Ṭaybughā’s Commentary on Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-Maddaʿ, Hilkhot Yesodei ha-Torah I–IV, a Philosophical “Encyclopaedia” of the Fourteenth Century25. Sara Sviri, R. Abraham Maimonides’ Sufi-Inspired Commentary on the Practice of Solitude and Psalms 84 and 101 The Whirlpool at Work: Ideas and Practices26. Yonatan Moss, Who Invented Writing? Changing Answers to a Rarely Asked Question among Biblical Readers of the First Millennium27. Menahem Ben-Sasson, An Interreligious “Encounter” in Four Visions of Daniel28. Dong Xiuyuan, The Enigma of the Brahmins: On Sarah Stroumsa’s Study of the Barāhima29. Ronny Vollandt, The (Syro-)Hexapla in Arabic: An Editio Princepsand Translation of al-Ḥārith b. Sinān’s Introductory Tractate30. Haggai Ben-Shammai, New Fragments of al-Qirqisānī’s Defense of Rational Speculation31. Robert Gleave, Jews and Christians in Twelver Shīʿī Jurisprudence: Kitāb al-Khilāf of Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460/1067)32. Mark Silk, Three Rings, Twelve Shields, a Thousand Drawings: The Value of Facsimiles in Religious Epistemology 33. Gideon Libson, Core and Shell: On the Close Relationship between Ancient Halakhah and Sharīʿa and the Gulf that Emerged between Them 34. Tanja Werthmann, Neoplatonic Variations on a Pre-Socratic Theme: Transposing a Material Element into the Intelligible Realm35. Daniel J. Lasker, Jewish Anti-Christian Polemics in Islamic Countries and the Unchanging Nature of the Jewish Critique of Christianity36. Rémi Brague, State and Time on 1 Samuel 8, 11–18Philosophy in the Islamicate World and Beyond37. Alexander Treiger, The Longer Theology of Aristotle, Book X.6-13: A Critical Edition and Translation38. Sari Nusseibeh, Is “One” Unique?39. Jon McGinnis, Timing Is Everything: God, Causation, and Temporal Atomism in Medieval Islam40. Olaf Pluta, John Buridan on the Question of Immortality41. Gudrun Krämer, “Time is Life”: Piety, Punctuality, and Productivity in Modern Islamic DiscourseIntellectual History in the Islamicate World42. Anna Akasoy, Shahrazad’s Homiletic Stories: The Arabian Nights Reinterpreted43. Geoffrey Khan, The Representation of the Tetragrammaton in the Medieval Karaite Transcriptions of Hebrew into Arabic Script44. Miriam Goldstein, The Construction of Noah’s Ark according to Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī45 Ahmed El Shamsy, “The Mushabbiha Are the Jews of the Umma”: On the History of a Heresiographical Label46. Roy Vilozny, “We are ‘those firmly rooted in knowledge’” [Q 3:7]: Imāmī-Shīʿī Exegesis between Hermeneutics and Empiricism47. Elvira Wakeling, Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Prolegomena to Medicine: The Introduction to His Commentary on Galen’s On Sects48. Meira Polliack and Arye Zoref, Can Love Survive Politics? King David as Ruler in the Biblical Exegeses of Yefet ben Eli and Don Isaac Abravanel49. Jonathan Decter, King Solomon’s maqṣūra: The Royal Image in Yefet ben Eli’s Commentary on Kings50. Meir M. Bar-Asher, A Dialogue of the Deaf: Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī’s Refutation of al-Ṭibb al-Rūḥānī by Abū Bakr al-Rāzī51. Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Bīzhan and Manīzha, the Pleonastic -ā, and the Composition History of the Shāhnāma52. James T. Robinson, Allegorical Readings of Qohelet 7:19 in Medieval Jewish Exegesis: The “Ten Rulers in the City” as Body Parts, Celestial Spheres, Psychic Faculties, or Internal and External SensesOn Modern Scholars and Scholarship53. Daniel De Smet, Hermes and Simplicius in Ḥarrān: About Medieval and Modern Myths in the History of Philosophy54. Sabine Schmidtke, Rudolf Strothmann’s Trip to the Middle East (1929/30): II. Yemen55. David Nirenberg, Convivencia vs. Race: On the Dangers of Extracting Morality from History56.Guy Stroumsa, A Paradigm Shift? Salomon Munk and Ernest Renan on Jewish and Arabic Philosophy57. Maria Mavroudi, Historiographical Debates and Modern Political Considerations in Writing a Cultural History of the Holy Land: A Byzantinist’s Perspective58.Glen W. Bowersock, A Vanished Deuteronomy