Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Contexts of Interreligious Interaction
5. Chapter 1. Observations on the Beginnings of Judeo-Arabic Civilization 13
6. Chapter 2. Shurūṭ ʿUmar From Early Harbingers to Systematic Enforcement 30
7. Chapter 3. Thinkers of “This Peninsula” 44
8. Part II. Adopting and Accommodating the Foreign
9. Chapter 4. Translations in Contact Early Judeo-Arabic and Syriac Biblical Translations 57
10. Chapter 5. Claims About the Mishna in the Epistle of Sherira Gaon 65
11. Chapter 6. Maimonides and the Arabic Aristotelian Tradition of Epistemology 78
12. Chapter 7. Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Fakhkhār al-Yahūdī 96
13. Part III. Crossing Borders Agents of Interaction and Exchange
14. Chapter 8. The Impact of Interreligious Polemic on Medieval Philosophy 115
15. Chapter 9. Arabic into Hebrew The Emergence of the Translation Movement in Twelfth-Century Provence and Jewish-Christian Polemic 124
16. Chapter 10. Fusion Cooking in an Islamic Milieu 144
17. Notes 161
18. Index 215
19. Acknowledgments 223