Project description
New tools to study Jewish literature in Arabic
What do we know about Judaeo-Arabic literature? What is behind the adoption of the Arabic language as the predominant language of literary production amongst the Jewish population in the 9th to 11th centuries? How did it change Jewish literature? The EU-funded MAJLIS project will answer these questions. Specifically, it will study the Arabic literature of the Qaraites, a Jewish intellectual movement whose religious and scholarly centre, the Academy of Jerusalem, played a catalytic role in these transformation processes. To analyse texts produced there, the project will use novel digital tools to trace changes in Jewish literature and contrast them to previous literary models. It will also identify the dominant scholars and analyse their geographical origins.
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ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant
Host institution
80539 Muenchen
Germany
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80539 Muenchen
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