Samuel Abraham Poznański’s Karaite Mission: From Wissenschaft to Jewish Nationalism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context: Rationality, European Borders, and the Search for Belonging 1
5. Jewish Orientalism Pre-modern and Modern: Epochal Variations of Cultural Hybridity? 31
6. The Rise of Imperialism and the German Jewish Engagement in Islamic Studies 61
7. A) Self-Definition of the Scholar within Europe: The Self-Interested Inner Side of the European Borders is Unmasked, Though Still Dominant (Position 1)
8. Gustav Weil’s Koranforschung and the Transnational Circulation of Ideas: The Shaping of Muhammad as Reformer 95
9. B) Self-Definition of the Scholar outside Europe, However, the Self-Interested Inner Side of the European Borders is Still Effective (Position 2)
10. Samuel Abraham Poznański’s Karaite Mission: From Wissenschaft to Jewish Nationalism 121
11. Shlomo Dov Goitein’s Research into the Relationship between the Jewish and Muslim Traditions through the Prism of His Predecessors and Colleagues 145
12. Islamici nil a me alienum puto: The Mindset of Jewish Scholars of Islamic Studies 181
13. C) Self-Definition of the Scholar within Europe, Though an Ambiguous Perspective on Both Sides of the European Borders is Developed (Position 3)
14. Beyond Orientalism? Steinschneider on Islam, Religion and Plurality 201
15. The Story of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Scholar’s Discovery of Plato’s Political Philosophy in Tenth-Century Islam: Leo Strauss’ Early Interest in the Islamic Falāsifa 219
16. Martin Schreiner’s Unpublished Systematic Philosophy of Religion: Adapting Ignác Goldziher’s Method for Researching Islam 245
17. Salomon Munk and the Franco-Jewish Discovery of Orientalism 267
18. Adapting Andalusian Convivencia: Merging Identities in the Modern Jewish Bourgeoisie 291
19. D) Self-Definition of the Scholar outside Europe, However, the Inner Perspective on the European Borders is Critically Evaluated as Part of His View from the Outside (Position 4)
20. The Orient between Arab and Jewish National Revivals: Josef Horovitz, Shelomo Dov Goitein and Oriental Studies in Jerusalem 319
21. Return to al-Andalus beyond German-Jewish Orientalism: Abraham Shalom Yahuda’s Critique of Modern Jewish Discourse 337
22. Index of Names 355
23. Subject Index 357