Analogising Judaism and Islam: nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-Jewish scholarship on Islam
This paper focuses on one chapter of the history of Jewish-Muslim intellectual encounter by examining the work of three Jewish scholars of Islam: Gustav Weil, Ignác Goldziher and Ilse Lichtenstadter. In recent years, (German-)Jewish Orientalism has received growing attention, with scholars arguing t...
| Published in: | Journal of beliefs and values |
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| Subtitles: | How do we see each other? : Interdisciplinary studies of relations between Abrahamic religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2017]
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| In: |
Journal of beliefs and values
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Alemanha
/ Judeus
/ Cientista
/ Estudos islâmicos
/ Judaísmo
/ Conciliação
B Weil, Gustav 1808-1889 / Goldziher, Ignác 1850-1921 / Lichtenstadter, Ilse 1907-1991 / Estudos islâmicos / Minoria religiosa / Minoria / Judaísmo |
| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BH Judaism BJ Islam KBB German language area |
| Further subjects: | B
Abrahamic
B German-Jewish thought B Orientalism B Islamic Reform B Jewish reform |
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| Summary: | This paper focuses on one chapter of the history of Jewish-Muslim intellectual encounter by examining the work of three Jewish scholars of Islam: Gustav Weil, Ignác Goldziher and Ilse Lichtenstadter. In recent years, (German-)Jewish Orientalism has received growing attention, with scholars arguing that Jewish Orientalists used the study of Islam to confront issues related to their own position as members of a religious minority in Christian Europe. This paper focuses in particular on the analogies these thinkers drew between Judaism and Islam in general and between Jewish and Islamic "responses to modernity" in particular. I argue that the idea that Judaism and Islam are similar remains an idée fixe from the nineteenth century into the twentieth century (and beyond) but that it is also malleable. I conclude with some remarks about contemporary calls for an "Islamic reformation". |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9362 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of beliefs and values
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2017.1317521 |