A zsidó - arab koegzisztencia kultúraszociológiai és vallástörténeti dimenziói
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description: The primary aim of this dissertation is to provide a critical analysis of the scholarly literature on the long historical, social and cultural processes that characterized Jewish-Arab coexistence in the Muslim Arab societies of the Middle East and North Africa. For this purpose I survey: A. a large body of primary sources that have for the most part not been available in Hungarian. These include: parts of medieval Muslim, Christian and Jewish travelers’ itineraries and diaries, British and French diplomatic correspondence, documents from the British and US Intelligence Services and the Alliance Israélite Universelle archives, WZO correspondence and my interviews with Syrian and Iraqi Jews living in Israel. B. a substantial amount of analytical and exploratory literature that provides theories and hypotheses formulated by highly qualified and experienced scholars in a number of fields. These scholars include Heinrich Graetz, Ignaz Goldziher, Raphael Patai, H.Z. Hirschberg, Y. Ben-Zvi, S.D. Goiten, S.W. Baron, Bernard Lewis, Norman A. Stillman, and W.P. Zenner. On the basis of my survey I then examine the veracity of several rather wide-spread assertions popular in western liberal scholarly circles, such as: a. In the Muslim Arab world, Jews on the whole fared better than they did in Christian societies. b. The breakdown of a presumably peaceful Jewish-Arab coexistence was caused by the appearance of the great powers and/ or European Zionists in the Middle East and North Africa Given the multi-faceted scholarship on the coexistence of the two communities, a multi- disciplinary approach is best suited for this project. In particular, I will be utilizing methods deriving from disciplines such as theology, social and cultural history, cultural anthropology, ethnography, and social psychology. The dissertation is structured into three main parts. In the first part, I provide an overview of Jewish-Arab relations during the period starting from the emergence of Islam and en…
abstract: The primary aim of this dissertation is to provide a critical analysis of the scholarly literature on the long historical, social and cultural processes that characterized Jewish-Arab coexistence in the Muslim Arab societies of the Middle East and North Africa. For this purpose I survey: A. a large body of primary sources that have for the most part not been available in Hungarian. These include: parts of medieval Muslim, Christian and Jewish travelers’ itineraries and diaries, British and French diplomatic correspondence, documents from the British and US Intelligence Services and the Alliance Israélite Universelle archives, WZO correspondence and my interviews with Syrian and Iraqi Jews living in Israel. B. a substantial amount of analytical and exploratory literature that provides theories and hypotheses formulated by highly qualified and experienced scholars in a number of fields. These scholars include Heinrich Graetz, Ignaz Goldziher, Raphael Patai, H.Z. Hirschberg, Y. Ben-Zvi, S.D. Goiten, S.W. Baron, Bernard Lewis, Norman A. Stillman, and W.P. Zenner. On the basis of my survey I then examine the veracity of several rather wide-spread assertions popular in western liberal scholarly circles, such as: a. In the Muslim Arab world, Jews on the whole fared better than they did in Christian societies. b. The breakdown of a presumably peaceful Jewish-Arab coexistence was caused by the appearance of the great powers and/ or European Zionists in the Middle East and North Africa Given the multi-faceted scholarship on the coexistence of the two communities, a multi- disciplinary approach is best suited for this project. In particular, I will be utilizing methods deriving from disciplines such as theology, social and cultural history, cultural anthropology, ethnography, and social psychology. The dissertation is structured into three main parts. In the first part, I provide an overview of Jewish-Arab relations during the period starting from the emergence of Islam and en…
author: Kárpáti, Judit
language: hu
keywords: BM Judaism / zsidóság
identifier: Kárpáti, Judit (2009) A zsidó - arab koegzisztencia kultúraszociológiai és vallástörténeti dimenziói. PhD thesis, OR-ZSE.
date published: 2009-05-05
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