medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear List:
As you know I am interested in the middle ages particularly as it relates to the
Arab and Muslim world. It is important to remember that this "other middle ages"
[I think I just coined a useful term!] was made up of various groups besides
Arab Muslims such as the Amazigh [Berber], Turks, Persians, Jews, and Arab and
Syriac Christians.
I recently have been studying Judeo-Arabic. You will recognize the name
Maimonides as a Jewish writer of the middle ages, but perhaps do not know that
he wrote in Arabic using the Hebrew writing system. This is called
Judeo-Arabic. There was also a large group of Jews known as Karaites who also
wrote in Judeo-Arabic. They were almost completely wiped out when the Crusaders
took Jerusalem.
There is a system of exegesis in the Karaitic writings which have survived that
seems to parallel the medieval hermeneutic philosophy which saw the text as
having four meanings: sensus historicus, sensus allegoricus, sensus
tropologicus, and sensus anagogicus.
My question is: Can anyone recommend a good book on this topic or any part of
it? I googled without satisfactory results.
V. Kerry Inman
University of Pennsylvania
"To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics for these are the measure
of his purpose." --Florence Nightingale
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