Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The History of Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures
- Part I The Greek-Arabic Scientific Tradition and Its Appropriation, Adaptation, and Development in Medieval Jewish Cultures, East and West
- Part II Individual Sciences as Studied and Practiced by Medieval Jews
- Part III Scientific Knowledge in Context
- 20 Medieval Karaism and Science
- 21 Science in the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Cultural Orbit
- 22 Philosophy and Science in Medieval Jewish Commentaries on the Bible
- 23 Kabbalah and Science in the Middle Ages
- 24 History, Language, and the Sciences in Medieval Spain
- Name Index*
- Subject Index*
- References
24 - History, Language, and the Sciences in Medieval Spain
from Part III - Scientific Knowledge in Context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The History of Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures
- Part I The Greek-Arabic Scientific Tradition and Its Appropriation, Adaptation, and Development in Medieval Jewish Cultures, East and West
- Part II Individual Sciences as Studied and Practiced by Medieval Jews
- Part III Scientific Knowledge in Context
- 20 Medieval Karaism and Science
- 21 Science in the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Cultural Orbit
- 22 Philosophy and Science in Medieval Jewish Commentaries on the Bible
- 23 Kabbalah and Science in the Middle Ages
- 24 History, Language, and the Sciences in Medieval Spain
- Name Index*
- Subject Index*
- References
Summary
The intense involvement of the Jews in science in medieval Iberia was affected by various historical settings and factors, which partly conditioned the production of knowledge by Jews there between the tenth and the fifteenth centuries.
There has always been some desire to relate the production of knowledge to history rather than discussing it in a vacuum. Early attempts to explain the Jewish involvement in the sciences in medieval Spain saw it as part of a struggle between Enlightenment and obscurantism. Later these forces were replaced by Pietism versus Averroism. Many have attempted to situate intellectual history within the framework of overarching processes such as the (sometimes unexamined) concept of the Reconquista and the movement of Jews between Muslim and Christian Spain.
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- Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures , pp. 511 - 528Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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