Modern Jewish Scholarship on Islam in Context : Rationality, European Borders, and the Search for Belonging (Studia Judaica 108) (2018. IX, 359 S. 230 mm)

This volume highlights the role of Jewish scholars within the field of Oriental studies in the 19th and 20^th century. It discusses their views of Islam and the "Orient" in the context of concepts such as orientalism, colonialism, and modernity. The analysis shows that Jewish oriental research provides a way of understanding some of the particularities of the boundaries between European frameworks of thought.