Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of medieval Egypt: a study of Abrftaham Maimonides and his times
Includes bibliographical references
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Edition: | 1. ed |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford studies in Abrahamic religions
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204
/ Egypt
/ Judaism
/ Sufism
/ Pietism
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| RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BH Judaism BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
B Judaism Relations Islam History To 1500 B Pietists (Egypt) History To 1500 B Islam Relations Judaism History To 1500 B Sufism B Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon (1186-1237) |
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| Summary: | Includes bibliographical references Addresses the rise and inner life of the Egyptian pietist movement in the first half of the thirteenth century, calling attention to the Sufi subtext of Jewish pietism without reducing its spiritual synthesis and religious renewal to a set of political calculations.-- Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt' addresses the extraordinary rise and inner life of the Egyptian pietist movement in the first half of the thirteenth century. The creative engagement with the dominant Islamic culture was always present, even when unspoken. Dr Russ-Fishbane calls attention to the Sufi subtext of Jewish pietiem, while striving not to reduce its spiritual synthesis and religious renewal to a set of political calculations. Ultimately, no single term or concept can fully address the creative expression of pietism that so animated Jewish society and that left its mark in numerous manuscripts and fragments from medieval Egypt. Russ-Fishbane offers a nuanced examination of the pietist sources on their own terms, drawing as far as possible upon their own definitions and perceptions. Jewish society in thirteenth-century Egypt reflects the dynamic reexamination by a venerable community of its foundational texts and traditions, even of its very identity and institutions, viewed and reviewed in the full light of its Islamic environment. The historical legacy of this religious synthesis belongs at once to the realm of Jewish culture, in all its diversity and dynamism, as well as to the broader spiritual orbit of Islamicate civilization.-- |
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| ISBN: | 019872876X |