ERC Consolidator Grant · 2020
The Transformation of Jewish Literature in Arabic in the Islamicate World
In pre-modern times, an estimated ninety percent of the Jewish population lived under Muslim hegemony. Over the centuries, these Jews not only adopted the Arabic language for most forms of spoken and written communication, but also integrated concepts and techniques from their intellectual environment, resulting in one of the most extraordinary periods of literary creativity in all of Jewish history. Despite its importance, however, Judaeo-Arabic literature has been under-researched until very recently, due to inaccessible sources, disparate scholarly traditions and political antagonism. The overall aim of MAJLIS is to explore comprehensively for the first time the fundamental way in which…
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