Jewish-Muslim Relations

What Does Historical Numismatics Suggest About the Monetary History of Khazaria in the Ninth Century?-Question Revisited

by Roman Kovalev

Creating Khazar Identity through Coins: The Special Issue Dirhams of 837/8

by Roman Kovalev

Mu'tazilism in the Age of Averroes

by Gregor Schwarb أغريغور شوارب גריגור שוורב

Published in:
In the Age of Averroes: Arabic Philosophy in the 6th/12th Century (Warburg Institute Colloquia), ed, P. Adamson (London: Warburg Institute, 2011), pp. 251–282.
ISBN 978–0–85481–154–0
ISSN 1352–9986

Yūsuf al-Baṣīr

by Gregor Schwarb أغريغور شوارب גריגור שוורב

Published in:
Encyclopedia of the Jews in the Islamic World, ed. N. A. Stillman, Leiden Brill, 2010, vol. IV, pp. 651–655.

Capturing the meanings of God's speech: the relevance of uṣūl al-fiqh to an understanding of uṣūl al-tafsīr in Jewish and Muslim kalām

by Gregor Schwarb أغريغور شوارب גריגור שוורב

published in:
A WORD FITLY SPOKEN: Studies in Mediaeval Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible and the Qur’ān presented to Haggai Ben-Shammai [דבר דבור על אופניו: מחקרים בפרשנות המקרא והקראן בימי הביניים מוגשים לחגי בן-שמאי], eds. Meir M. Bar-Asher, Simon Hopkins, Sarah Stroumsa and Bruno Chiesa, Jerusalem: The Ben-Zvi Institute for the History of Jewish Communities in the East, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007, pp. 111*–156*. [in English]
http://shop.ybz.org.il/VSHOP/WizCgi.cgi?WizCustomer=02109691125HEHE&Lang=HE&CN=&UC=BENZVI&SingleItem=2269.
This article will be reprinted in M. Shah (ed.), Tafsir: Interpreting the Qurʾān (Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies), Volume II: Tafsir: Theory and Constructs, Part 3: Procedural and Conceptual Devices (article no. 18), London & New York: Routledge 2012.
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415580748/#contents

This article draws the attention of historians of scriptural exegesis to the relevance of uṣūl al-fiqh — both as a... more This article draws the attention of historians of scriptural exegesis to the relevance of uṣūl al-fiqh — both as a literary genre and as a discipline of the religious sciences — to an understanding of the semiotic foundations and the hermeneutic discourse of scriptural commentaries (uṣūl al-tafsīr) in mediaeval Judaism and Islam. What are the means through which meaning is produced, what are the conditions to be met for the possibility of their understanding? We find the most systematic and exhaustive discussions on these and related questions not in the commentaries themselves but in compositions on uṣūl al-fiqh.

“Abu’ l-Kathir, Yahya ibn Zakariyya”

by Camilla Adang

In: Norman Stillman et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Volume I. Leiden: Brill, 2010, 34-35.