This dissertation examines aspects of the reception of Judah Halevi's Sefer ha-Kuzari in European culture and scholarship from the late Middle Ages through the nineteenth century. This “classic” Jewish theological treatise is an important example of medieval Jewish apologetic as…
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In spite of the fact that, according to R. Bultmann, Paul put the concept of "faith" at the very center of theology, there are remarkably few studies dealing with this significant topic. The present work seeks to help closing this gap by investigating the Wirkungsgeschichte of G…
In this study I investigate the influence and reception of Paulo Freire in Indonesia with a specific question in mind: To what extent has Freire influenced educational thought and practice in the country? This study shows that Paulo Freire has been known in Indonesia since the e…
Yunus Emre (c.1240-c.1320) is one of the most renowned Sufi poets in the history of Asia Minor. Despite the vast amount of scholarly attention focused on Yunus Emre, few works discuss the relations between contemporary interpretations and the historical contexts of his poetry. C…
The legacy of the great Muslim Sufi master from the XII century, Muhy al-din Ibn al-'Arabi left broad, profound, lasting and polarizing impact on the development of Islamic mysticism in the centuries after his death. The underlying principles of Sufism such as the ideas of the t…
This Dissertation is on the reception of the Qur'an as it elaborates the place of the Qur'an in a non-Arabic speaking community in Indonesia. Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world. Although Arabic is not the language of the people of this country, they perce…
In tracing the circulation of Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan, Ben-Zaken highlights its key place in four far-removed historical moments. He explains how autodidacticism intertwined with struggles over mysticism in twelfth-century Marrakesh, controversies about pedagogy in fourteenth-century Ba…
"For all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of "classics" is actively transformed and as an open-ended s…