Center for
Advanced Judaic Studies
Thirteenth Annual Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies
Religious Communities in Islamic Empires
April 30 –
Logan Hall, Terrace Room
Monday, April 30
Logan Hall, Terrace Room
Coffee and light breakfast
Greetings
David Ruderman, Ella Darivoff Director, CAJS
E. Ann Matter, Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Custodians of Tradition
Chair: Jamal Elias,
Sagit Butbul, Hebrew University/CAJS
Translations in Contact: Early Judeo-Arabic Biblical Translations and Syriac Exegesis
David Hollenberg, James Madison University/CAJS
The Aesthetics of Islamic Esotericism
Vera Moreen, CAJS
Isrā’iliyāt in
Respondent: Walid Saleh,
Lunch Break
The World of Arabic
Chair: Ross Brann, Cornell University/CAJS
Aharon Maman, Hebrew University/CAJS
Rav Hai Gaon’s Lexicographical Method in Light of al-Khalīl’s Kitāb al-‘Ayn
Miriam Goldstein, Hebrew University/CAJS
“Slow of Speech and Slow of Tongue?”: Prophecy and Transmission of the Divine Message in the Islamic World
Jonathan Decter, Brandeis University/CAJS
Ibrahim Ibn al-Fakhkhār al-Yahūdī: An Arabic
Poet and Diplomat in
Respondent: Daniel Frank,
Coffee Break
Worlds Apart and Together: Science and Society
Chair: Emma Gannagé, Institute for Advanced Study,
Alfred Ivry, New York University/CAJS
Competing and Complementing Epistemologies
Robert Morrison, Whitman College/CAJS
The Transmission of Iranian Science into Judeo-Arabic Culture
Charles Manekin,
Maimonides’ Critique of Aristotelian Celestial Science
Respondent: James Robinson,
Dinner (by invitation)
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies,
Tuesday, May 1
Logan Hall, Terrace Room
Muslims as Rulers: Adaptations to a New Reality
Chair: Patricia Crone, Institute for Advanced
Study,
Milka Levy-Rubin, Hebrew University/CAJS
Coming to Grips: Generating Means for Subordination of the Non-Muslim Population
Political Realities and Minority Reactions: Premodern and Early Modern Iran
Respondent: Mark R. Cohen, Princeton University/CAJS
Coffee Break
Religious Law in a Religious Age: Comparative
Perspectives
The panelists request that
the papers of this session be read in advance. The papers will be available via
email at allenshe@sas.upenn.edu
Chair: Talya Fishman,
Gideon Libson, Hebrew University/CAJS
Recourse of Jews to Non-Jewish Courts under Islam and under Christianity in the Middle Ages
David Freidenreich, CAJS
Foreign Food under Foreign Rule: Developments in Christian and Jewish Law within an Islamic Milieu
Joseph David, CAJS
Conceptual Analysis as a Comparative Tool: Judicial Error in Jewish and Islamic Jurisprudence
Raquel Ukeles,
Beyond Questions of Influence: Phenomenological Comparison of Islamic and Jewish Law
Respondent: Joseph Lowry,
Lunch Break
The Common Marketplace
Chair: Norman Stillman,
Jessica Goldberg,
Trade and Identity: The Self-Definitions of 11th Century Mediterranean Merchants
Molly Greene,
Mediterranean Trade: Was it Legal?
Yaron Ben-Naeh, Hebrew University/CAJS
At the Bazār: The Significance of Interethnic Encounters in the Ottoman Marketplace
Respondent: Menahem Ben-Sasson, Hebrew University/CAJS
Dinner & Evening
Program (by invitation)
Houston Hall, Bodek Lounge
Wednesday, May 2
Logan Hall, Terrace Room
Faiths in Conflict
Chair: Heather Sharkey,
Daniel Lasker, Ben-Gurion University/CAJS
The Impact of Interreligious Polemic on Philosophy
Sidney Griffith,
Hunayn ibn Ishāq’s Adab al-Falāsifah: Philosophy and Christian Apology in Early Abbasid Times
Daniel Tsadik, Hebrew University/CAJS
The Twelve Princes of Ishmael: Shi’i Jewish Polemical Exchanges
Respondent: Frank Griffel,
Coffee Break
Concluding Session: Religious Communities in
Islamic Empires
Chair: David Ruderman,
Haggai Ben-Shammai, Hebrew University/CAJS
Raymond Scheindlin, Jewish Theological Seminary of America/CAJS
Norman Stillman,
Sarah Stroumsa, Hebrew University/CAJS
Concluding Luncheon (by invitation)
Houston Hall, Hall of Flags