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II. Islam in Modern Jewish Research on Medieval WEDNESDAY, 9 JULY 2014 „Islamici nil a me alienum puto“ – Philosophy (1) „I consider nothing Islamic foreign to me“ IV. German Jewish Orientalists between 14:15–15:45 and Islamization A modification of the famous phrase „Homo Chair: Amir Engel (Goethe University /M.) 9:30–12:15 sum: humani nil a me alienum puto“ – „I am Ottfried Fraisse (Goethe University Frankfurt/M.) Martin Schreiner’s Unpublished ‘Systematic Philosophy of Chair: Ottfried Fraisse (Goethe University Frankfurt/M.) a human being: I consider nothing human Religion’: Adapting Ignác Goldziher’s Method of Researching Yuval Evri (Tel Aviv University / Eume, Berlin) foreign to me“, from Terence, Heauton Timo- and Islam Between Berlin and Jerusalem: A.S. Yahuda’s Struggle over rumenos. the Representation of the Sephardic Legacy in the Jewish Miriam Frenkel (The Hebrew University Jerusalem) Scientific and Political Discourse “In my Spirit I am closer to the Traditionalists than to those called ‘Path Breakers’”: Samuel Poznański, Conservative or Noah Gerber (The Hebrew University Jerusalem) Pioneer? From German-Jewish Orientalism to the Study of Jewish TUESDAY, 8 JULY 2014 History in Islamic Orbits: The Case of Walter J. Fischel 15:45 Coffee 9:30 Welcome / Introduction III.Islam in Modern Jewish Research on Medieval Reinhard Schulze (University of Bern) Merging Identities: Orientalism and Islamization in the Work Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (Vice-President, Goethe University Philosophy (2) Frankfurt/M.) of Leopold Weiss, Hugo Marcus and Lev Nussimbaum Christian Wiese (Goethe University Frankfurt/M.) Ottfried Fraisse (Goethe University Frankfurt/M.) 16:15–17.45 12:15 Lunch Chair: Irene Zwiep (Universiteit van Amsterdam) V. Jewish Research on Islam: Consequences and I. Medieval Perspectives in Modern Jewish Research Steven Harvey (Bar Ilan University) Perspectives on Islam The Story of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Scholar’s Discovery of Plato’s Political Philosophy in Tenth-century Islam – Leo Strauss’s 13:30–15:00 9:45–12:30 Early Interest in the Islamic Falāsifa Chair: Yossef Schwartz (Tel Aviv University) Chair: Christian Wiese (Goethe University Frankfurt/M.) Paul Fenton (Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne) Abu Samra (Tel Aviv University) Yossef Schwartz (Tel Aviv University) French Orientalists from Salomon Munk to George Vajda: The Actuality of Ignác Goldziher’s Research into Islam: Its Spirit between Philology and Nostalgia: From the Tib- Models of Jewish Research into Islam Reception in Contemporary Arab Islamic Thought bonides to Steinschneider (and Beyond) Keynote Lecture Hanan Harif (The Hebrew University Jerusalem) Irene Zwiep (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Orientalism as a Bridge? Josef Horovitz, Avraham Shalom Conceptualizing Religion(s) in Late Nineteenth-Century Jewish 18:15 Yahuda, and S. D. Goitein on the ‘Arab Question’ Cultural Hermeneutics: Steinschneider on Judaism and Islam Chair: Christian Wiese (Goethe University Frankfurt/M.) Gideon Libson (The Hebrew University Jerusalem) Norman Stillman (): Final Discussion Shlomo Dov Goitein: Scientific Work between Jewish and Islamici nil a me alienum puto: The Mindset of Jewish Scholars Muslim Traditions of Islamic Studies 15:00–15:30

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