scholasticism

This thesis is an analytical exploration of the influence of medieval theology on contemporary scholastic traditionalist polemics within Sunni Islam. Intra-Sunni sectarian polemics as an emerging area of study is relatively untouched as opposed to sectarian violence. A detailed …

Ramon Martí, a thirteenth-century Spanish Dominican, was a linguist, missionary, emissary, and scholar. He mastered Arabic and Hebrew, and composed Christian polemical works against Islam and Judaism. He traveled the Mediterranean world and interacted with the kings of Aragon, F…

This dissertation investigates the meaning and usage of a particular set of linguistically related Talmudic terms in order to show how and in what cultural context the Talmud began to take shape in the emerging scholastic centers of rabbinic learning in late Sassanian Babylonia.…