Jewish and Islamic Rationalist Thought (kalam) in the Middle Ages  Page description

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Details of project

 
Identifier
48611
Type PD
Principal investigator Hegedus, Gyöngyike Irén
Title in Hungarian Középkori Zsidó és Iszlám Racionalizmus (Kalam)
Title in English 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
Full text http://real.mtak.hu/1841/
Decision
Yes





 

List of publications

 
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




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