Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg Hardback Edition Contributor(s): Adang, Camilla (Editor), Chiesa, Bruno (Editor), Hamdan, Omar (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1783749687 ISBN-13: 9781783749683 Publisher: Open Book Publishers OUR PRICE: $48.40 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2020 |
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BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - Religion | Islam - History |
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.49 lbs) 506 pages |
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Publisher Description: Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled unearths forgotten texts that once belonged to the library of the Karaite community in Cairo. Consigned to oblivion for centuries, many of these manuscripts were sold in the second half of the nineteenth century to the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, where they remained inaccessible to most scholars until the end of the Cold War. The texts from the Karaite library cover a remarkable spectrum of medieval literary genres and scholarly disciplines, spanning works by Jewish, Muslim and Christian authors, in both Hebrew and Arabic. As such, they provide unique access to an otherwise lost body of literature from the medieval Islamicate world. |