Strangers in the Land: Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times

‎Contents
‎Transliteration
‎Notes on Contributors
‎Strangers in the Land (Hjälm and Zawanowska)
‎Part 1. In Quest for Timeless Meaning: The Other in Biblical Exegesis
	‎Chapter 1. Blessed Is the One Who Kills Infants: “The Other” in Eastern Christian Reception of Psalm 137 (Hjälm)
	‎Chapter 2. The Attitude of the Early Karaites to the Converts According to Their Interpretation of the Bible (Erder)
	‎Chapter 3. The Treatment of Biblical Idols (Ar. aṣnām) in Andalusi Hebrew Lexicography (Martínez Delgado)
	‎Chapter 4. The Vision of the “Other” in Menahem Meiri’s Commentary on Psalms (Gómez Aranda)
‎Part 2. Between Reality and Imagination: “The Other” in Documentary, Legal, and Mystical Sources
	‎Chapter 5. The Career of a Jewish exilé at the Muslim Court in Medieval al-Andalus: Shmuel ha-Nagid as Dhimmi in Power, Hebrew Poet and Muslim Dignitary (Gryczan)
	‎Chapter 6. Benevolent Strangers: The Founding of Granada, Zirid Memory and Ideology of Power in the Kitāb al-Tibyān of ʿAbd Allāh b. Buluqqīn b. Zīrī (Wilk)
	‎Chapter 7. “Double Strangers”: Women’s Conversion to Judaism in the Cairo Genizah Documents (Ashur)
	‎Chapter 8. Absent From Its World: The Image of the Fallen Soul in al-Suhrawardī’s al-Wāridāt wa-l-Taqdīsāt  [Divine Inspirations and Sanctifications] (Piątak)
	‎Chapter 9. Strangers by the Law: A Sharia Perspective on Inequality according to Selected Maliki Fatwas from Medieval Maghreb (Jakubowski)
‎Part 3. Recycling Sources, Constructing Traditions: “The Other and the Self” in Narratives on the Past
	‎Chapter 10. The Self as the Other in the Jewish Literature of the Egyptian Diaspora in the Hellenistic Period: The Case of the Letter of Aristeas (Grzybowska-Wiatrak)
	‎Chapter 11. A Christian Away from Home: The Greek Sources of Abgar’s Legend Revisited (López Calero and Muñoz Gallarte)
	‎Chapter 12. An Idumean between Nabataeans and Romans: On the Source-Text of a Passage in Agapius’ Kitāb al-ʿUnwān (Monferrer-Sala)
	‎Chapter 13. The Exile of Cain in the Kitāb al-ʿUnwān: An Ancient Tradition on the Melkite Literature (Bonhome-Pulido)
‎Index of Sources
‎Index of Classical Authors
‎Index of Modern Authors
‎Index of Geographic Places
‎General Index