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  title info:
    title: Judaism, Sufism, and the pietists of medieval Egypt
    sub title: a study of Abraham Maimonides and his times
  name:
    name part: Russ-Fishbane, Elisha
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 273 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 'Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt' addresses the extraordinary rise and inner life of the Egyptian pietist movement in the first half of the thirteenth century. The creative engagement with the dominant Islamic culture was always present, even when unspoken. Dr Russ-Fishbane calls attention to the Sufi subtext of Jewish pietiem, while striving not to reduce its spiritual synthesis and religious renewal to a set of political calculations. Ultimately, no single term or concept can fully address the creative expression of pietism that so animated Jewish society and that left its mark in numerous manuscripts and fragments from medieval Egypt. Russ-Fishbane offers a nuanced examination of the pietist sources on their own terms, drawing as far as possible upon their own definitions and perceptions. Jewish society in thirteenth-century Egypt reflects the dynamic reexamination by a venerable community of its foundational texts and traditions, even of its very identity and institutions, viewed and reviewed in the full light of its Islamic environment. The historical legacy of this religious synthesis belongs at once to the realm of Jewish culture, in all its diversity and dynamism, as well as to the broader spiritual orbit of Islamicate civilization.
  table of contents: Social foundations. The making of a movement ; Ideals and institutions -- Prayer and the synagogue. The devotional life ; Prayer reforms -- Prophecy and messianism. The return of prophecy ; From prophecy to redemption.
  target audience: adolescent
  note: Elisha Russ-Fishbane.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-269) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-ua---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon
      name part: 1186-1237
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Maimonides, Moses
      name part: 1135-1204
  subject:
    topic: Judaism
    topic: Relations
    topic: Islam
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Islam
    topic: Relations
    topic: Judaism
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Pietists
    geographic: Egypt
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Sufism
  classification: BM755.M6 R877 2015
  classification: 296.09
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions
  identifier: 9780198728764
  identifier: 019872876X
  identifier: 2014959427
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 150220
    record change date: 20170928110448.0
    record identifier: in00003607029