Knowledge Commons | Gregor M. Schwarb | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/hayman/activity/ Activity feed for Gregor M. Schwarb. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2a68979f4c0067725baefd7a3865399d Gregor M. Schwarb deposited The Conceptual Framework of Muʿtazilī-Bahšamī Phenomenological Epistemology in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884673/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:29:01 -0400 Synoptic edition of the introductions to Kitāb al-Taḏkira fī aḥkām al-jawāhir wa-l-aʿrāḍ (‘Reminder about the properties of atoms and accidents’) by Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Mattawayh and its commentary (Šarḥ), presumably by Abū Ǧaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Mazdak. Taken together, these introductions offer a valuable summary outline of basi…[Read more]

]]> 0 a7a9ed0a6d34fc5ffc4188d8dfe0627a Gregor M. Schwarb deposited The Conceptual Framework of Muʿtazilī-Bahšamī Phenomenological Epistemology in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884672/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:59 -0400 Synoptic edition of the introductions to Kitāb al-Taḏkira fī aḥkām al-jawāhir wa-l-aʿrāḍ (‘Reminder about the properties of atoms and accidents’) by Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Mattawayh and its commentary (Šarḥ), presumably by Abū Ǧaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Mazdak. Taken together, these introductions offer a valuable summary outline of basi…[Read more]

]]> 0 b417e4c52e445845a004e5f3005e54be Gregor M. Schwarb deposited The Conceptual Framework of Muʿtazilī-Bahšamī Phenomenological Epistemology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884165/ Sun, 28 Apr 2024 10:41:00 -0400 Synoptic edition of the introductions to Kitāb al-Taḏkira fī aḥkām al-jawāhir wa-l-aʿrāḍ (‘Reminder on the properties of atoms and accidents’) by Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Mattawayh and its commentary (Šarḥ), presumably by Abū Ǧaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Mazdak. Taken together, these introductions offer a valuable summary outline of basi…[Read more]

]]> 0 686ddb2767b7d0bdfa215a210d2b325d Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Debating the Deuteronomic Centralisation Formula in 11th Century Palestine in the group Hebrew Bible / Old Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842638/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 02:23:51 -0400 Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣūrī’s Treatise on the qibla, written in the 1030s C.E., and its Qaraite rebuttal, most likely written over the course of the following decade, preserve the most substantial and extensive surviving account of the centuries-old debate between Jews and Samaritans about the chosen place, the permanent location of the sanctuary and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee9f9dcbc29f0e968c6210c020599a7f Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Debating the Deuteronomic Centralisation Formula in 11th Century Palestine in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842637/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 02:23:38 -0400 Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣūrī’s Treatise on the qibla, written in the 1030s C.E., and its Qaraite rebuttal, most likely written over the course of the following decade, preserve the most substantial and extensive surviving account of the centuries-old debate between Jews and Samaritans about the chosen place, the permanent location of the sanctuary and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 718c1d3c6bc4bef3877f1350f03309eb Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Debating the Deuteronomic Centralisation Formula in 11th Century Palestine https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842521/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 05:35:28 -0400 Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣūrī’s Treatise on the qibla, written in the 1030s C.E., and its Qaraite rebuttal, most likely written over the course of the following decade, preserve the most substantial and extensive surviving account of the centuries-old debate between Jews and Samaritans about the chosen place, the permanent location of the sanctuary and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9900136aac208849631d4b5c2761fa04 Gregor M. Schwarb's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1770734/ Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:37:21 -0500 0 bb268bdc657459024e3e34d87437b324 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited A Hamaḏānian Patchwork in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707583/ Tue, 08 Sep 2020 02:24:16 -0400 Among the numerous Jewish uṣūl al-dīn compositions in the Second Firkovitch Collection at the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg there is one that I have labelled “A Hamaḏānian Patchwork”. You might just as well call it “A Persian Carpet”. It is another magnificent specimen of “diachronic intertextualities”.
The treatise, which is…[Read more]

]]> 0 96eb9ce3da51ab290cb93c6599a420ac Gregor M. Schwarb deposited A Hamaḏānian Patchwork in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707582/ Tue, 08 Sep 2020 02:24:15 -0400 Among the numerous Jewish uṣūl al-dīn compositions in the Second Firkovitch Collection at the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg there is one that I have labelled “A Hamaḏānian Patchwork”. You might just as well call it “A Persian Carpet”. It is another magnificent specimen of “diachronic intertextualities”.
The treatise, which is…[Read more]

]]> 0 017f9a36684fa01f50a1ffabedd27fff Gregor M. Schwarb deposited A Hamaḏānian Patchwork in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707581/ Tue, 08 Sep 2020 02:23:52 -0400 Among the numerous Jewish uṣūl al-dīn compositions in the Second Firkovitch Collection at the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg there is one that I have labelled “A Hamaḏānian Patchwork”. You might just as well call it “A Persian Carpet”. It is another magnificent specimen of “diachronic intertextualities”.
The treatise, which is…[Read more]

]]> 0 bcc6d5dbac372972a5f76a28bf1628d4 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited A Hamaḏānian Patchwork https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707561/ Mon, 07 Sep 2020 21:11:18 -0400 Among the numerous Jewish uṣūl al-dīn compositions in the Second Firkovitch Collection at the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg there is one that I have labelled “A Hamaḏānian Patchwork”. You might just as well call it “A Persian Carpet”. It is another magnificent specimen of “diachronic intertextualities”.
The treatise, which is…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ee29802d197dc72ef8f1508746eaf5a Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Book of the Five Fundamentals (Kitāb al-Uṣūl al-ḫamsa): A Muslim Muʿtazilī Creed — Synopsis of Edition & Translation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686741/ Sat, 09 May 2020 11:33:27 -0400 The present synopsis of edition and translation of Kitāb al-Uṣūl al-ḫamsa, attributed to Abū ’l-Ḥasan ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār b. Aḥmad al-Hamaḏānī (d. 415/1024), was initially used as illustrative test material in a hands-on introduction to the Classical Text Editor (http://cte.oeaw.ac.at/) for post-graduate students at SOAS University of London and is he…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec1bfbf1ebf731f261ad94629dd11f4b Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Diachronic Intertextualities: Falsafa, Kalām, Uṣūl al-Fiqh in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683373/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:27:46 -0400 Computer-aided comparison between large textual corpora, first and foremost in the areas of falsafa, ʿilm kalām, and uṣūl al-fiqh, Muslim & Jewish & Christian.

]]> 0 26676eb0982c496d94248fe6936b8ab5 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Diachronic Intertextualities: Falsafa, Kalām, Uṣūl al-Fiqh in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683372/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:27:27 -0400 Computer-aided comparison between large textual corpora, first and foremost in the areas of falsafa, ʿilm kalām, and uṣūl al-fiqh, Muslim & Jewish & Christian.

]]> 0 d1e0cdf293c0e93d043b559127eaf879 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Diachronic Intertextualities: Falsafa, Kalām, Uṣūl al-Fiqh https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683287/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 18:52:36 -0400 Computer-aided comparison between large textual corpora, first and foremost in the areas of falsafa, ʿilm kalām, and uṣūl al-fiqh, Muslim & Jewish & Christian.

]]> 0 69a73d51bb41a908c0f9212a2c73eee6 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Patrologia Graeca - Versiones Arabicae in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1675572/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:32:12 -0500 This is an enhanced compilation of relevant entries from Clavis Patrum Graecorum which was compiled by me (GS) for the "Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations" volume up to Nov. 2015. It is an embryonic version of what was later substantially enlarged and published as “A Bibliographical Guide to Arabic Patristic Translations and Related T…[Read more]

]]> 0 69a73d51bb41a908c0f9212a2c73eee6 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Patrologia Graeca - Versiones Arabicae in the group Christian Arabic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1675571/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:32:12 -0500 This is an enhanced compilation of relevant entries from Clavis Patrum Graecorum which was compiled by me (GS) for the "Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations" volume up to Nov. 2015. It is an embryonic version of what was later substantially enlarged and published as “A Bibliographical Guide to Arabic Patristic Translations and Related T…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c93ad5aed43c9c95ccb037b8e105f55 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Patrologia Graeca - Versiones Arabicae https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1675553/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:38:56 -0500 This is an enhanced compilation of relevant entries from Clavis Patrum Graecorum which was compiled by me (GS) for the "Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations" volume up to Nov. 2015. It is an embryonic version of what was later substantially enlarged and published as “A Bibliographical Guide to Arabic Patristic Translations and Related T…[Read more]

]]> 0 f31a03983e9a1eb5f2658d3ff8b84fdb Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Qurʾān in Samaritan cursive script in the group Hebrew Bible / Old Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633544/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:26:37 -0500 Qurʾān in Samaritan cursive script produced for a students' exercise in a seminar entitled "One Language, Many Scripts: Allographic Traditions Used for Writing Arabic" with reference to Johannes den Heijer, Andrea Schmidt and Tamara Pataridze (eds.), Scripts Beyond Borders: A Survey of Allographic Traditions in the Euro-Mediterranean World (…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8a44afa3c54c5ff2f1c98ced3d7426f Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Qurʾān in Samaritan cursive script https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633506/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:30:55 -0500 Qurʾān in Samaritan cursive script produced for a students' exercise in a seminar entitled "One Language, Many Scripts: Allographic Traditions Used for Writing Arabic" with reference to Johannes den Heijer, Andrea Schmidt and Tamara Pataridze (eds.), Scripts Beyond Borders: A Survey of Allographic Traditions in the Euro-Mediterranean World (…[Read more]

]]> 0 ac16bfa1c1128f50994ea30fcf1e3693 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Qurʾān in Hebrew script in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633212/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:25:57 -0500 Qurʾān in Hebrew script produced for a students' exercise in a seminar entitled "One Language, Many Scripts: Allographic Traditions Used for Writing Arabic" with reference to Johannes den Heijer, Andrea Schmidt and Tamara Pataridze (eds.), Scripts Beyond Borders: A Survey of Allographic Traditions in the Euro-Mediterranean World (Louvain: P…[Read more]

]]> 0 cabb36487a37369f73fa0cfd1076b774 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Qurʾān in Samaritan script in the group Hebrew Bible / Old Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633211/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:25:56 -0500 Qurʾān in Samaritan script produced for a students' exercise in a seminar entitled "One Language, Many Scripts: Allographic Traditions Used for Writing Arabic" with reference to Johannes den Heijer, Andrea Schmidt and Tamara Pataridze (eds.), Scripts Beyond Borders: A Survey of Allographic Traditions in the Euro-Mediterranean World (Louvain: P…[Read more]

]]> 0 ba795a0d4bbab2d46035ad288d041487 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Qurʾān in Garšūnī in the group Christian Arabic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633210/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:25:56 -0500 Qurʾān in Syriac script produced for a students' exercise in a seminar entitled "One Language, Many Scripts: Allographic Traditions Used for Writing Arabic" with reference to Johannes den Heijer, Andrea Schmidt and Tamara Pataridze (eds.), Scripts Beyond Borders: A Survey of Allographic Traditions in the Euro-Mediterranean World (Louvain: P…[Read more]

]]> 0 06762ca630ad1b1372bae17eae6075de Gregor M. Schwarb deposited The Undotted Qurʾān in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633203/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:25:32 -0500 Undotted consonantal skeleton of the Quranic text produced for a students' exercise. The display is constrained by the limitations of the font and by no means meant to reproduce scribal practices of early Qurʾān manuscripts! Full document available on request (gs50[at]soas.ac.uk).

]]> 0 9825fac6383dcb505a53a76555970138 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited The Undotted Qurʾān in the group Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633202/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:25:31 -0500 Undotted consonantal skeleton of the Quranic text produced for a students' exercise. The display is constrained by the limitations of the font and by no means meant to reproduce scribal practices of early Qurʾān manuscripts! Full document available on request (gs50[at]soas.ac.uk).

]]> 0 14aabd5f77f2dfbbf05345dbabd39f55 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Qurʾān in Hebrew script https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633096/ Sun, 24 Feb 2019 15:05:56 -0500 Qurʾān in Hebrew script produced for a students' exercise in a seminar entitled "One Language, Many Scripts: Allographic Traditions Used for Writing Arabic" with reference to Johannes den Heijer, Andrea Schmidt and Tamara Pataridze (eds.), Scripts Beyond Borders: A Survey of Allographic Traditions in the Euro-Mediterranean World (Louvain: P…[Read more]

]]> 0 19b7b87667b0a517d53aff5d875cba8c Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Qurʾān in Samaritan script https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633095/ Sun, 24 Feb 2019 14:56:17 -0500 Qurʾān in Samaritan script produced for a students' exercise in a seminar entitled "One Language, Many Scripts: Allographic Traditions Used for Writing Arabic" with reference to Johannes den Heijer, Andrea Schmidt and Tamara Pataridze (eds.), Scripts Beyond Borders: A Survey of Allographic Traditions in the Euro-Mediterranean World (Louvain: P…[Read more]

]]> 0 2bc26d2960f8da10c1687f052c3e7733 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Qurʾān in Garšūnī https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633094/ Sun, 24 Feb 2019 14:42:26 -0500 Qurʾān in Syriac script produced for a students' exercise in a seminar entitled "One Language, Many Scripts: Allographic Traditions Used for Writing Arabic" with reference to Johannes den Heijer, Andrea Schmidt and Tamara Pataridze (eds.), Scripts Beyond Borders: A Survey of Allographic Traditions in the Euro-Mediterranean World (Louvain: P…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ea7c338ab3d15bf0b1d39116fc39751 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited The Undotted Qurʾān https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633090/ Sun, 24 Feb 2019 14:17:57 -0500 Undotted consonantal skeleton of the Quranic text produced for a students' exercise. The display is constrained by the limitations of the font and by no means meant to reproduce scribal practices of early Qurʾān manuscripts! Full document available on request (gs50[at]soas.ac.uk).

]]> 0 8562ff54a0ad83797aae5d6d68bf933c Gregor M. Schwarb deposited The Arabic translation by David b. Joshua Maimonides (ca. 1335-1410) of Moses Maimonides's Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-Maddaʿ, Hilkhot Yesodei ha-Torah I-IV: a revised version in Arabic script of Blumenthal's 1985 edition in the group Philosophy of Religion https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615587/ Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:25:30 -0400 The present edition was originally prepared for a paper given at the international conference "Bridging the Worlds of Judaism and Islam" held at Bar-Ilan University on January 3-4, 2006 ("ʿAlī ibn Ṭaybughā's commentary on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-Maddaʿ, Hilkhot Yesodei ha-Torah I-IV: a philosophical 'encyclopaedia' of the 14th century…[Read more]

]]> 0 6aadd63ad6e07d4a7c072f8867c49952 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited The Arabic translation by David b. Joshua Maimonides (ca. 1335-1410) of Moses Maimonides's Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-Maddaʿ, Hilkhot Yesodei ha-Torah I-IV: a revised version in Arabic script of Blumenthal's 1985 edition in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615585/ Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:25:28 -0400 The present edition was originally prepared for a paper given at the international conference "Bridging the Worlds of Judaism and Islam" held at Bar-Ilan University on January 3-4, 2006 ("ʿAlī ibn Ṭaybughā's commentary on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-Maddaʿ, Hilkhot Yesodei ha-Torah I-IV: a philosophical 'encyclopaedia' of the 14th century…[Read more]

]]> 0 31bf0becb14aff87a135a1903d1e4a67 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Opposing the theological doctrine of the Qāsimī state in 11th/17th century Yemen: a Shāfiʿī khat addict from Ṣanʿāʾ allegedly writing under the pseudonym of a Kurdish savant from Damascus in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615584/ Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:25:28 -0400 Among the great diversity of source material and multiple historio- and biographical works covering the history of the early Qāsimī state , Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim’s (d. after 1100/1687) Bahǧat al-zaman fī tārīḫ al-Yaman occupies a position of paramount importance. For the political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual hi…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ed0acfe485397b92353a94cc19da8b6 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited The Arabic translation by David b. Joshua Maimonides (ca. 1335-1410) of Moses Maimonides's Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-Maddaʿ, Hilkhot Yesodei ha-Torah I-IV: a revised version in Arabic script of Blumenthal's 1985 edition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615558/ Wed, 15 Aug 2018 07:20:26 -0400 The present edition was originally prepared for a paper given at the international conference "Bridging the Worlds of Judaism and Islam" held at Bar-Ilan University on January 3-4, 2006 ("ʿAlī ibn Ṭaybughā's commentary on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-Maddaʿ, Hilkhot Yesodei ha-Torah I-IV: a philosophical 'encyclopaedia' of the 14th century…[Read more]

]]> 0 fcaf0f790e6c89c1f3475707e7376edb Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Opposing the theological doctrine of the Qāsimī state in 11th/17th century Yemen: a Shāfiʿī khat addict from Ṣanʿāʾ allegedly writing under the pseudonym of a Kurdish savant from Damascus https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615555/ Wed, 15 Aug 2018 05:33:38 -0400 Among the great diversity of source material and multiple historio- and biographical works covering the history of the early Qāsimī state , Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim’s (d. after 1100/1687) Bahǧat al-zaman fī tārīḫ al-Yaman occupies a position of paramount importance. For the political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual hi…[Read more]

]]> 0 36678d4e1fa24d7344e928605b4f1561 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Early Kalām and the Medical Tradition in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1599280/ Thu, 01 Feb 2018 04:12:26 -0500 Discusses 1) Kalām and the Syro-Arabic transmission of Galen's medico-philosophical writings, in particular On the Usefulness of the Bodily Parts, and Nemesius of Emesa's On the Nature of Man; 2) the reception of Abū Bakr al-Rāzī in 10th and 11th century Muʿtazilī thought; includes an edition and translation of two chapters of Abū Jaʿfar Muḥamma…[Read more]

]]> 0 36678d4e1fa24d7344e928605b4f1561 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Early Kalām and the Medical Tradition in the group Christian Arabic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1599279/ Thu, 01 Feb 2018 04:12:26 -0500 Discusses 1) Kalām and the Syro-Arabic transmission of Galen's medico-philosophical writings, in particular On the Usefulness of the Bodily Parts, and Nemesius of Emesa's On the Nature of Man; 2) the reception of Abū Bakr al-Rāzī in 10th and 11th century Muʿtazilī thought; includes an edition and translation of two chapters of Abū Jaʿfar Muḥamma…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b33a0ab2519d4ed7a0ead50701c8043 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Early Kalām and the Medical Tradition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1599178/ Wed, 31 Jan 2018 06:51:55 -0500 Discusses 1) Kalām and the Syro-Arabic transmission of Galen's medico-philosophical writings, in particular On the Usefulness of the Bodily Parts, and Nemesius of Emesa's On the Nature of Man; 2) the reception of Abū Bakr al-Rāzī in 10th and 11th century Muʿtazilī thought; includes an edition and translation of two chapters of Abū Jaʿfar Muḥamma…[Read more]

]]> 0 87162b870e16985dea7b833ba106b4df Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Palaeographical Guide to a Draft Copy (musawwada) of Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī’s Torah Commentary, Ex 34:18 – Lev 3:4 (SP, RNL, Arab.-Yevr. 21, ff. 105r-213v) in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1592089/ Sun, 10 Dec 2017 05:38:19 -0500 This palaeographical guide grew out of a workshop («A Jewish Theologian’s Arabic Guide to State Administration: Mukhtaṣar fī ṣināʿat al-kitāba of Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī»), organised by Dr. Luke Yarbrough at the NYU Abu Dhabi, 29-30 March 2017. Comments and corrections are welcome (g.schwarb@gmail.com).

]]> 0 87162b870e16985dea7b833ba106b4df Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Palaeographical Guide to a Draft Copy (musawwada) of Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī’s Torah Commentary, Ex 34:18 – Lev 3:4 (SP, RNL, Arab.-Yevr. 21, ff. 105r-213v) in the group Hebrew Bible / Old Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1592088/ Sun, 10 Dec 2017 05:38:19 -0500 This palaeographical guide grew out of a workshop («A Jewish Theologian’s Arabic Guide to State Administration: Mukhtaṣar fī ṣināʿat al-kitāba of Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī»), organised by Dr. Luke Yarbrough at the NYU Abu Dhabi, 29-30 March 2017. Comments and corrections are welcome (g.schwarb@gmail.com).

]]> 0 51781ce53fa020bd8a0f746ae4afc9ef Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Palaeographical Guide to a Draft Copy (musawwada) of Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī’s Torah Commentary, Ex 34:18 – Lev 3:4 (SP, RNL, Arab.-Yevr. 21, ff. 105r-213v) in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1592087/ Sun, 10 Dec 2017 05:38:17 -0500 This palaeographical guide grew out of a workshop («A Jewish Theologian’s Arabic Guide to State Administration: Mukhtaṣar fī ṣināʿat al-kitāba of Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī»), organised by Dr. Luke Yarbrough at the NYU Abu Dhabi, 29-30 March 2017. Comments and corrections are welcome (g.schwarb@gmail.com).

]]> 0 ebde6fd6a03902f3c3b7c198b90308e3 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Palaeographical Guide to a Draft Copy (musawwada) of Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī’s Torah Commentary, Ex 34:18 – Lev 3:4 (SP, RNL, Arab.-Yevr. 21, ff. 105r-213v) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1591950/ Sat, 09 Dec 2017 08:54:14 -0500 This palaeographical guide grew out of a workshop («A Jewish Theologian’s Arabic Guide to State Administration: Mukhtaṣar fī ṣināʿat al-kitāba of Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī»), organised by Dr. Luke Yarbrough at the NYU Abu Dhabi, 29-30 March 2017. Comments and corrections are welcome (g.schwarb@gmail.com).

]]> 0 835ff97a99db09e785dc156e01bd91a4 Gregor M. Schwarb's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1585083/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 21:54:22 -0400 0 b8448305592e64976c8e135339dcb3a1 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited MS Munich, Bavarian State Library, Cod. arab. 1294: A Guide to Zaydī Kalām-Studies during the Ṭāhirid and Early Qāsimite Periods (Mid-15th to Early 18th Centuries) in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1584993/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 01:01:35 -0400 The article offers a bibliographical aperçu of Zaydī-Muʿtazilī Kalām-studies from the 15th through 18th centuries based on MS Munich, Bavarian State Library, Cod. arab. 1294. This codex contains ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Naǧrī’s as yet unedited K. Mirqāt al-anẓār, a major kalām textbook which for almost three centuries constituted the b…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e1970ab9d20c7e61f000e9206234553 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited MS Munich, Bavarian State Library, Cod. arab. 1294: A Guide to Zaydī Kalām-Studies during the Ṭāhirid and Early Qāsimite Periods (Mid-15th to Early 18th Centuries) in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1584991/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 01:01:28 -0400 The article offers a bibliographical aperçu of Zaydī-Muʿtazilī Kalām-studies from the 15th through 18th centuries based on MS Munich, Bavarian State Library, Cod. arab. 1294. This codex contains ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Naǧrī’s as yet unedited K. Mirqāt al-anẓār, a major kalām textbook which for almost three centuries constituted the b…[Read more]

]]> 0 172042e7b88f1f64884a95f34dd82c5b Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Muʿtazilī Underpinnings of an 11th Century Qaraite Legal Treatise: Theological & Legal Hermeneutics in Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah’s Risāla fī ’l-Jawāb ʿan masāʾil mushkila fī ’l-tarkīb in the group Hebrew Bible / Old Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1584986/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 01:00:41 -0400 Analyses the introduction of Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah's Risāla fī ’l-Jawāb ʿan masāʾil mushkila fī ’l-tarkīb, its key concept (al-muwāḍaʿa al-sharʿiyya), and its relation to Muʿtazilī uṣūl al-fiqh.

]]> 0 936a794de2eb91c50692a72f43513cf0 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited A Muʿtazilī Hexaemeron? Authorship, structure and genre of the commentary known as "Bereshit Rabbah" ascribed to Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah in the group Hebrew Bible / Old Testament https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1584984/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 01:00:40 -0400 The paper revisits the arguably most conspicuous example of a Jewish Muʿtazilī Hexaemeron in Arabic. Its 11th century Byzantine Hebrew translation bears the title “Bereshit Rabbah” and attributes the work to Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah (fl. 1040-1070) whose authorship has been questioned in recent scholarship. Based on a reconstruction of all extant…[Read more]

]]> 0 fca4c3a1fa6a4f8efcf3526167f8b585 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited ‹al-istiṭāʿa› between kalām and falsafa in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1584983/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 01:00:40 -0400 Surveys the Begriffsgeschichte of istiṭāʿah (< τὸ αὐτεξούσιον; τὸ ἐφ´ ἡμῖν) in antique and late antique philosophical and theological/patristic texts, the Syriac&Arabic reception history of the Nicomachean Ethics, Alexander of Aphrodisias's Maqāla fī l-istiṭāʿa, Nemesius of Emesa's K. Ṭabīʿat al-insān, and early Christian-Arabic literature, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 033033cac1e017df7aaa78afbcbd3c21 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited ‹al-istiṭāʿa› between kalām and falsafa in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1584982/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 01:00:39 -0400 Surveys the Begriffsgeschichte of istiṭāʿah (< τὸ αὐτεξούσιον; τὸ ἐφ´ ἡμῖν) in antique and late antique philosophical and theological/patristic texts, the Syriac&Arabic reception history of the Nicomachean Ethics, Alexander of Aphrodisias's Maqāla fī l-istiṭāʿa, Nemesius of Emesa's K. Ṭabīʿat al-insān, and early Christian-Arabic literature, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 033033cac1e017df7aaa78afbcbd3c21 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited ‹al-istiṭāʿa› between kalām and falsafa in the group Christian Arabic Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1584981/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 01:00:39 -0400 Surveys the Begriffsgeschichte of istiṭāʿah (< τὸ αὐτεξούσιον; τὸ ἐφ´ ἡμῖν) in antique and late antique philosophical and theological/patristic texts, the Syriac&Arabic reception history of the Nicomachean Ethics, Alexander of Aphrodisias's Maqāla fī l-istiṭāʿa, Nemesius of Emesa's K. Ṭabīʿat al-insān, and early Christian-Arabic literature, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 2966cb369a27823ff65a1eafa7713f43 Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Theories of will and action in late antique Christian thought and early Muslim kalām: On the Arabic translation(s) of Nemesius of Emesa's Περὶ φύσεως ἀνθρώπου and related texts in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1584980/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 01:00:39 -0400 Discusses the Graeco-Syriac-Arabic transmission of Nemesius of Emesa's Περὶ φύσεως ἀνθρώπου and related texts. The focus is on the notions of istiṭāʿah (τὸ αὐτεξούσιον; τὸ ἐφ´ ἡμῖν), irāda, qaṣd and ikhtiyār (προαίρεσις) in philosophical theories of action, the reception history of the Nicomachean Ethics, and their historical and conceptual relati…[Read more]

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