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The Jewish discovery of Islam : studies in honor of Bernard Lewis / edited by Martin Kramer.

Contributor(s): Lewis, Bernard, 1916-2018 | Kramer, Martin S [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Tel Aviv : Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, 1999Description: viii, 311 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9652240400; 9789652240408Subject(s): Jewish scholars -- Biography -- Congresses | Islam -- Research -- Europe -- Congresses | Judaism -- Relations -- Islam -- Congresses | Islam -- Relations -- Judaism -- Congresses | Lewis, Bernard, 1916-2018LOC classification: DS115 | .J34 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Martin Kramer -- Pedigree remembered, reconstructed, invented : Benjamin Disraeli between East and West / Minna Rozen -- 'Jew' and Jesuit at the origins of Arabism : William Gifford Palgrave / Benjamin Braude -- Arminius Vámbéry : identities in conflict / Jacob M. Landau -- Abraham Geiger : a nineteenth-century Jewish reformer on the origins of Islam / Jacob Lassner -- Ignaz Goldziher on Ernest Renan : from orientalist philology to the study of Islam / Lawrence I. Conrad -- The death of an Orientalist : Paul Kraus from Prague to Cairo / Joel L. Kraemer -- The road from Mecca : Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss) / Martin Kramer -- The transplantation of Islamic studies from Europe to the Yishuv and Israel / Hava Lazarus-Yafeh -- The interaction of Judaic and Islamic studies in the scholarship of S.M. Stern / Shulamit Sela -- Evariste Lévi-Provençal and the historiography of Iberian Islam / David J. Wasserstein.

Brings together the presentations made at a conference ... convened at Tel Aviv University in June 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Martin Kramer -- Pedigree remembered, reconstructed, invented : Benjamin Disraeli between East and West / Minna Rozen -- 'Jew' and Jesuit at the origins of Arabism : William Gifford Palgrave / Benjamin Braude -- Arminius Vámbéry : identities in conflict / Jacob M. Landau -- Abraham Geiger : a nineteenth-century Jewish reformer on the origins of Islam / Jacob Lassner -- Ignaz Goldziher on Ernest Renan : from orientalist philology to the study of Islam / Lawrence I. Conrad -- The death of an Orientalist : Paul Kraus from Prague to Cairo / Joel L. Kraemer -- The road from Mecca : Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss) / Martin Kramer -- The transplantation of Islamic studies from Europe to the Yishuv and Israel / Hava Lazarus-Yafeh -- The interaction of Judaic and Islamic studies in the scholarship of S.M. Stern / Shulamit Sela -- Evariste Lévi-Provençal and the historiography of Iberian Islam / David J. Wasserstein.

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