Jewish and Islamic Rationalist Thought (kalam) in the Middle Ages
Panel
Culture
Department or equivalent
Department for the Study of Religions (University of Szeged)
Starting date
2004-01-01
Closing date
2007-09-30
Funding (in million HUF)
12.614
FTE (full time equivalent)
0.00
state
closed project
Final report
Results in Hungarian
Kutatásom mindenek előtt a 10. századi iszlám és zsidó racionális teológia (kalam) kutatására irányult.
Ennek keretében kutatásom első évében elkészítettem és sajtó alá rendeztem Szádja Gáon al-Fajjúmi, bagdadi zsidó gondolkodó főűvének magyar fordítását. A mű (bevezetővel, arab-héber-magyar filózófiai szótárral és Tatár György előszavával) Hittételek és Vélemények Könyve címmel a l'Harmattan kiadónál jelent meg. Ezen kívül három angol nyelvű publikációt írtam és jelentettem meg a múlt évben.
(1) Where is Paradise? (The Notions of Afterlife and Otherworld in the 10th Century Islamic and Jewish Thought), in: Dionysius, Dalhousie University, Halifax, December 2007
(2) The Double Path of Knowledge (Epistemological Structures in the 10th Century Jewish and Islamic Thought), in: Monotheism and Diversity, P. Losonczi (ed), Kluwer, 2007
(3) The Finitude of the World and the Limits of Human Knowledge (The Philoponean Proofs in Medieval Jewish Epistemology), in: Migrating Texts, W. Sweet (ed.), Kluwer, 2008.
Results in English
During the first year of my fellowship I prepared the Hungarian translation of the masterpiece of early medieval Jewish rational theology (kalam): Saadya Gaon's Book of Beliefs and Opinions. In my translation I have been relying on the original Judeo-Arabic text, and the final product of my work (420 pages) was published by l'Harmattan, Hittételek és Vélemények Könyve, in 2005.
In the second (last year) of my fellowship I authored 3 articles, two of which are already published in Germany and Canada respectively.
(1) Where is Paradise? (The Notions of Afterlife and Otherworld in the 10th Century Islamic and Jewish Thought), in: Dionysius, Dalhousie University, Halifax, December 2007
(2)The Double Path of Knowledge (Epistemological Structures in the 10th Century Jewish and Islamic Thought), in: Monotheism and Diversity, P.Losonczi (ed), Kluwer 2007
(3) The Finitude of the World and the Limits of Human Knowledge (The Philoponean Proofs in Medieval Jewish Epistemology), in: Migrating Texts, W. Sweet (ed.), Kluwer, 2008
G. Hegedus: Where is Paradise?, Dionysius, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 2007
G. Hegedus: “The Double Path. The Two Layers of Thinking and the Twofold Nature of Knowledge in the Works of Saadya Gaon”, Reflecting Diversity, eds. P. Losonczi; G. Xeravits, LitVerlag Berlin-Wien, pp 43-61, 2007
G. Hegedus: “The Creation of the World and the Finitude of Human Knowledge”, Migrating Texts and Traditions, ed. W. Sweet, University of Ottawa Press, 2008
G. Hegedus: Szádja Gáon Hittételek és Vélemények Könyve (Kitab al-amanat wa-‘l-i`tiqadat) fordítás, L’Harmattan kiadó, Dialogosz sorozata (288 oldal), 2005
