Strangers in the Land: Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times
Title | Strangers in the Land: Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 2024-06-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004693319 |
This volume explores the ways in which representatives of different monotheistic traditions experienced themselves as “the other” or were perceived and described as such by their contemporaries. This central category – which includes not only those of different religions, but also converts, foreigners, sectarians, and women – is studied from various perspectives in a range of texts composed by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim authors during late antique and mediaeval times. Conceptualizations of such “others” are often intrinsically related to the idea of exile, another important category that is analysed in this work.
Strangers in Yemen
Title | Strangers in Yemen PDF eBook |
Author | David Malkiel |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2020-12-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110710617 |
Strangers in Yemen is a study of travel to Yemen in the nineteenth century by Jews, Christians and Muslims. The travelers include a missionary, artist, scientist, rabbi, merchant, adventurer and soldier. The focus is on the encounter between people of different cultures, and the chapters analyze the travelers’ accounts to elucidate how strangers and locals perceived each other, and how the experiences shaped their perceptions of themselves. Cultural encounter is among the most important challenges of our time, a time of global migration and instant communication. Today, as in the past, history provides a valuable tool for illuminating the human experience, and this scholarly work stimulates us to contemplate the challenge of cultural encounter, for it affects us all.
Jews and Journeys
Title | Jews and Journeys PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Levinson |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 363 |
Release | 2021-08-06 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0812297938 |
Journeys of dislocation and return, of discovery and conquest hold a prominent place in the imagination of many cultures. Wherever an individual or community may be located, it would seem, there is always the dream of being elsewhere. This has been especially true throughout the ages for Jews, for whom the promises and perils of travel have influenced both their own sense of self and their identity in the eyes of others. How does travel writing, as a genre, produce representations of the world of others, against which one's own self can be invented or explored? And what happens when Jewish authors in particular—whether by force or of their own free will, whether in reality or in the imagination—travel from one place to another? How has travel figured in the formation of Jewish identity, and what cultural and ideological work is performed by texts that document or figure specifically Jewish travel? Featuring essays on topics that range from Abraham as a traveler in biblical narrative to the guest book entries at contemporary Israeli museum and memorial sites; from the marvels medieval travelers claim to have encountered to eighteenth-century Jewish critiques of Orientalism; from the Wandering Jew of legend to one mid-twentieth-century Yiddish writer's accounts of his travels through Peru, Jews and Journeys explores what it is about travel writing that enables it to become one of the central mechanisms for exploring the realities and fictions of individual and collective identity.
The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition
Title | The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Bartlett |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 303 |
Release | 2021-07-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004435468 |
Throughout history, Jews have often been regarded, and treated, as “strangers.” In The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, authors from a wide variety of disciplines discuss how the notion of “the stranger” can offer an integrative perspective on Jewish identities, on the non-Jewish perceptions of Jews, and on the relations between Jews and non-Jews in an innovative way. Contributions from history, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature, and the arts offer a new perspective on the Jewish experience in early modern and modern times: in contact and conflict, in processes of attribution and allegation, but also self-reflection and negotiation, focused on the figure of the stranger.
Christian Identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain
Title | Christian Identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Charles L. Tieszen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2013-05-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004192298 |
In Christian Identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain Charles L. Tieszen explores a small corpus of texts from medieval Spain in an effort to deduce how their authors defined their religious identity in light of Islam, and in turn, how they hoped their readers would distinguish themselves from the Muslims in their midst. It is argued that the use of reflected self-image as a tool for interpreting Christian anti-Muslim polemic allows such texts to be read for the self-image of their authors instead of the image of just those they attacked. As such, polemic becomes a set of borders authors offered to their communities, helping them to successfully navigate inter-religious living.
Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614
Title | Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050–1614 PDF eBook |
Author | Brian A. Catlos |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 649 |
Release | 2014-03-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521889391 |
An innovative study which explores how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe and stimulated Christian society to define itself.
The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age
Title | The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age PDF eBook |
Author | William David Davies |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 766 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780521219297 |
Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.