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