My dissertation is a critical edition, translation and analysis of the opening chapter of Sefer Milhamot Hashem (1170), Jacob ben Reuben's philosophical polemic against Christianity. This groundbreaking text, possibly the first of its kind in Europe, emerged seemingly out of the…
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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 …
This dissertation is devoted to an investigation of the conflicted attitude toward Christianity demonstrable in the writings of the kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (1240-ca. 1291). Abulafia's hostility toward Christianity is explicit and emphatic. He partakes of most of the polemical…
This dissertation examines how early modern Lutherans experienced, narrated and interpreted their dreams. Confessional controversies, political struggles, wars, and plagues left traces in Lutherans' dream images. Besides contemporary events, religion played central role in shapi…
This dissertation examines the attacks on “idolatry” by two prominent nineteenth-century Hindu reformers, Rammohun Roy and Dayananda Sarasvati. Their iconoclastic fervour in the context of Hindu India appears (at face-value) as an anomaly because image-worship is widely perceive…
This dissertation is a critical exploration of certain authoritative discursive traditions on the limits of Islam in 19th century North India. It investigates specific moments when prominent Indian Muslim scholars articulated and contested the boundaries of what should and shoul…
Most of the Mamluk theologian Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyya's opinions had a polemical nature. This paper traces certain common tropes of Ibn Taymiyya's polemics such as tahrif (corruption), taqlid (imitation), and bid'a (innovation) that he repeatedly used in some of his judgm…