Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context: Rationality, European Borders, and the Search for Belonging
Ottfried Fraisse
Nov 2018 · Studia Judaica Book 108 · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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This volume highlights the role of Jewish scholars within the field of Oriental studies in the 19th and 20th century. It discusses their views of Islam and the "Orient" in the context of concepts such as orientalism, colonialism, and modernity. The analysis shows that Jewish oriental research provides a way of understanding some of the particularities of the boundaries between European frameworks of thought.
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Ottfried Fraisse, Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle.
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