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SUMMARY:International Conference "Jewish Literature under Muslim Rule: Textual Transformations and Inter-Religious Encounters"
DESCRIPTION:A cooperation between the Simon Dubnow Institute\, Leipzig\, and the Unit of Judaic Studies/Munich Research Centre of Jewish Arabic Cultures at the University of Munich. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Research\, Technology and Space – BMFTR \nWe are pleased to announce an international conference exploring the impact of Muslim rule on Jewish literature\, with a particular focus on religious texts—including translations of the Bible\, commentaries\, and philosophical and legal writings. The conference will examine how Jewish authors responded—textually\, linguistically\, and theologically—to the Islamic environment in which they lived\, and how Islamic models of thought\, language\, and literary form left their imprint on Jewish religious expression. \nWorkshop Program\nVenues:     Raum M110\, Main Building\, University of Munich\, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1\, 80539 Munich \n                  Seidlvilla\, Nicolaiplatz 1B\, 80802 Munich \n  \nApril 14 – Venue: Raum M110 \n18:15-18:30 Opening: Jan Gerber\, Ronny Vollandt \n18:30-19:30 Keynote Lecture: Reuven Firestone. Hinting What May Not Be Declared and Inferring What May Not Be Said: Decoding Jewish Anti-Muslim Polemics Written under Muslim Rule \n19:30-20:00 Reception \n  \nApril 15 – Venue: Seidlvilla \n09:00-09:30 Registration \n  \n09:30-11:00 NEGOTIATING INTERRELIGIOSITY \nChair: Gregor Schwarb \nJasper Bernhofer Elements of Arabic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind in Samaritan-Arabic Polemics against Judaism \nHaitham Ismaeil An 18th-Century Samaritan Theological Defense Against the Accusation of Worshipping the Golden Calf \nKübra Güneş Maimonides on Treatment of Non-Jews in the Context of the Commandments of Kings and Wars and Its Roots in Islamic Tradition \n  \n11:00-11:30 Coffee Break \n  \n11:30-12:30 IDENTITY AS REFLECTED IN LITERATURE \nChair: Hanna Trauer \nAriane Sadjed. Judeo-Persian and the Hebrew “Revival”: Religious Canonization in the Writings of Haim Moreh \nRavza Aydın. The Defence of the Other: Perceptions of Identity and Homeland in Avram Galante’s Article “Why I Defend Islam?” \n  \n12:30-13:30 Lunch \n  \n13:30-15:00 CONCEPTUAL ENGAGEMENTS \nChair: Ali Langroudi \nMohammad Golshan (Göttingen). Rethinking the Concept of Qadīm: Reading Burhān-i Ḥudūth and Qidam in Two Judeo-Persian Keter Malkuth Commentaries \nDan Shapira. I Firk 143: One of the Oldest Qipčaq Texts (Composed after 1340\, Copied after 1470s) from the Islamicate and Persianate World \nRoza Ashkenazi. Religious Terms and Jewish Personal Sacral Names in Judeo-Persian Literature and Judeo-Persian Transliterations of Classic Persian Poetry \n  \n18:15-19:15 Keynote Lecture; Venue: Raum M110; Julia Rubanovich. Epic Voices: Medieval Judeo-Persian Biblical Poetry in Context \n  \nApril 16 – Venue: Seidlvilla \n10:00-11:00 LITERARY ADOPTIONS I \nChair: Avner Ofrath \nShlomo Zuckier. ‘Oral Torah’ between Late Talmudic and Early Islamic Discourse \nGavin McDowell (Paris). Sefer ha-Yashar: A Persianate Tales of the Prophets \n  \n11:00-11:30 Coffee Break \n  \n11:30-13:00 LITERARY ADOPTIONS II \nChair: Ronny Vollandt \nJoshua Krug. Voluntary Conversion and Identity Formation in the Medieval Islamic World: Maimonides’ “Letter to Ovadiah the Convert” in Context  \nŞeyma Benli. Two Jewish Brothers\, Two Separate Translations: A Comparative Study of the First Ottoman Turkish Renditions of the Psalms \n  \n13:00-14:00 Lunch
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/jewish-literature-under-muslim-rule-textual-transformations-and-inter-religious-encounters/
LOCATION:Seidlvilla\, Nikolaiplatz 1B\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80802\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Marina Shcherbakova":MAILTO:M.Shcherbakova@lmu.de
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