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logical rationalism in the medieval world of Islam between the 10th and
the 13th centuries beyond and across denominational borders. Within this
field, all major desiderata have been identified and are addressed in a
number of primary and secondary sub-projects, many of which have already
been completed and are published. So far, two international conferences
have been held in 2009 and 2010, again with participants from the
West and the Islamic World, and numerous critical editions and studies
have been published in English, French, German, Arabic and Persian. Another
international conference, Takfir: A diachronic perspective, was held
in October 2011 in Madrid, in collaboration with the ERC Project KOHE-
POCU. A further conference is planned for spring 2013 that will focus on
“Jewish and Christian reception(s) of Muslim theology”.
The purpose of the Research Project “Contacts and Controversies between
Muslims, Jews and Christians”, which was funded by the Gerda
Henkel Foundation (2005–07), was to bring into focus new textual materials
that shed fresh light on the intellectual and social exchanges between
Muslims and non-Muslims both in the Ottoman lands and in pre-modern
Iran and to foster intensified cooperation between scholars from a variety
of disciplines. An international exploratory workshop on the topic, “The
Position of Religious Minorities in the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern
Iran, as Reflected in Muslim Polemical and Apologetical Literature”, was
funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF) (2007). The results of
this project were published in a collective volume and several articles in
peer-reviewed journals.
The Research Project “Bible in Arabic” evolved in close cooperation with
Meira Polliack and Camilla Adang (Tel Aviv University). Apart from numerous
studies tracing the reception of the various Christian translation
traditions among Muslim scholars during the first centuries of Islam that
have already been published (Sabine Schmidtke), the collaborators will
convene an international workshop on “The Bible in Arabic among
Jews, Christians and Muslims” in May 2012. Moreover, the first issue of
the recently established journal Intellectual History of the Islamicate World
(editor-in-chief: S. Schmidtke), to be published in summer 2013, will be
devoted exclusively to this topic.
A = Article; B = Blog; C = Conference paper / invited lecture; CE = Critical
Edition; CV = Collective volume; E = Encyclopaedia entry; F = Facsimile;
M = Monograph; R = Review article
DOCUMENTA ARABICA
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[A] S. Schmidtke, “II Firk. Arab. 111 – A copy of al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā’s
Kitāb al-Dhakhira completed in 472/1079–80 in the Firkovitch-Collection,
St. Petersburg,” [Persian] Maʿārif 20 ii (1382/2003), pp. 68–84.
[A] S. Schmidtke, “The ijāza from ʿAbd Allāh b. Ṣāliḥ al-Samāhījī to Nāṣir
al-Jārūdī al-Qaṭīfī: A Source for the Twelver Shiʿi Scholarly Tradition of
Baḥrayn,” Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam. Essays in Honour of Wilferd
Madelung, eds. Farhad Daftary & Josef W. Meri, London: I.B. Tauris in
laufend/theological_rationalism/index.html.
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