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Islam through Jewish Eyes. Judaism through Muslim Eyes

Gemeinsame Tagung mit dem Institute of European Studies der University of California, Berkeley, auf Schloss Elmau

25.06.2007 – 26.06.2007

Eröffnung

  • Michael Brenner und John Efron
  • Dan Diner (Jerusalem/Leipzig): Muslim Questions – Jewish Answers?
  • Saad A. Al-Bazei (Riyad): Shifting Identities: Arab and Jewish Intellectuals across the Divide

Holy Scriptures

Chair: Menahem Ben-Sasson (Jerusalem)

  • Khaleel Mohammed (San Diego): Revisiting Abraham Geiger: What did Muhammad Take from the Jews?

Studying the Other

Chair: Rémi Brague (München/Paris)

  • Georges Tamer (Berlin): A Paradigm of Cultural Interaction: Maimonides and Islamic Philosophy
  • Joseph Sadan (Tel Aviv): Poetical Features and Eloquence as Criteria in Inter-Religious and Cultural Contacts

The Suffering of the Other

Chair: Reinhard Schulze (Bern)

  • Eli Bar-Chen (München/Berlin): The Reception of Colonialism in the Eyes of European Jews
  • Yehuda Bauer (Jerusalem): Genocidal Aspects of Radical Islam
  • Reading: Zafer Senocak und Doron Rabinovici

Literary and Artistic Perceptions

Chair: Doron Rabinovici (Wien)

  • Ella Shohat (New York): Sacred Word, Profane Image: Mimesis, the Book and the Screen
  • Avinoam Shalem (München/Florenz): Constructing and De-Constructing the Palestinian
  • Mehnaz M. Afridi (Los Angeles): Antisemitism, Jews and Muslims in Modern Egyptian Literature
  • Atef Botros (Leipzig): "We breathe Kafka . . ." Arab Reflections on a Jewish European Writer Named Franz Kafka

Discussing the Other

Chair: Mirjam Triendl-Zadoff (München)

  • Reuven Firestone (Los Angeles): The Egyptian Encyclopaedia of Jews, Judaism and Zionism and its Entries on "Chosenness" (Election)
  • Omar Kamil (Leipzig): The Islamization of Knowledge

Educational Representations

Chair: Michael Brenner (München)

  • Carlos Fraenkel (Toronto): Teaching Maimonides in Makassar and Plato in Palestine
  • Mohamed Hawary (Kairo): Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Egyptian Universities
  • Shoshana Steinberg (Beer-Sheva): Israelis and Palestinians: Learning Each Other’s Narrative
  • Hamed Abdel-Samad (Braunschweig): The Image of Jews and Judaism in Arabic Textbooks