Descripción del proyecto
Nuevas herramientas para estudiar la literatura judía en árabe
¿Qué sabemos sobre la literatura judeoárabe? ¿Qué subyace a la adopción del árabe como lenguaje predominante de la producción literaria judía entre los siglos IX y XI? ¿Cómo cambió la literatura judía? El proyecto MAJLIS, financiado con fondos europeos, responderá a estas preguntas. En concreto, se estudiará la literatura árabe del caraísmo, un movimiento intelectual judío cuyo centro religioso y académico, la Academia de Jerusalén, desempeñó un papel revulsivo en estos procesos de transformación. El proyecto empleará nuevas herramientas digitales con el objetivo de analizar los textos redactados allí para rastrear cambios en la literatura judía y contrastarlos con modelos literarios previos. También identificará a los eruditos más destacados y examinará su origen geográfico.
Objetivo
In pre-modern times, an estimated ninety percent of the Jewish population lived under Muslim hegemony. Over the centuries, these Jews not only adopted the Arabic language for most forms of spoken and written communication, but also integrated concepts and techniques from their intellectual environment, resulting in one of the most extraordinary periods of literary creativity in all of Jewish history. Despite its importance, however, Judaeo-Arabic literature has been under-researched until very recently, due to inaccessible sources, disparate scholarly traditions and political antagonism.
The overall aim of MAJLIS is to explore comprehensively for the first time the fundamental way in which the adoption of Arabic transformed Jewish literature from the 9th to the 11th century. The project focuses on the Arabic literature of the Qaraites, a Jewish intellectual movement whose religious and scholarly center, the Academy of Jerusalem, played a catalytic role in these transformation processes. It will proceed by applying state-of-the-art digital tools to analyze manuscripts produced in the Academy with the aim of (1) tracing changes in Jewish literature and contrasting them to rabbinic literary models, especially with regard to how the texts were composed, produced, authored, and organized into a knowledge framework; (2) identifying the dominant scholars and analyzing their geographical origins, professional networks and institutional integration; and (3) comparing the Academy and its literature to non-Jewish literature and non-Jewish institutions of the time.
By bringing together unique expertise covering Judaic as well as Islamic studies at a time when the sources have become available to an unprecedented degree, MAJLIS will not only fundamentally add to our understanding of the history of Jewish literature, but also demonstrate that Jewish heritage in the Near East is of transcommunal and transnational importance.
Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
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ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitución de acogida
80539 MUNCHEN
Alemania