Join us for a special event at the Danish Jewish Museum, organised in collaboration with the EuQu project at the University of Copenhagen.
Joanna Weinberg, Professor Emerita at the University of Oxford, will present her recent book, The Mishnaic Moment: Jewish Law among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe. She will discuss how the Mishnah, the Jewish law, became a shared object of study among Jewish and Christian scholars in seventeenth-century northern Europe.
February 1, 2023| 17:00 CET | The Danish Jewish Museum, Proviantpassagen 6, 1218 København K or via zoom. Convenor: Naima Afif.
The Masāʾil ʿAbdallāh ibn Salām (Abdallāh ibn Salām’s Questions) is a fictional dialogue between a learned Jew who converted to Islam and the prophet Muḥammad. Originally written in Arabic, it enjoyed a great popularity in the West. The text was translated into Latin as part of the Corpus Toletanum in the 12th century under the title Liber de doctrina Mahumet and then served as the basis of several translations in European vernaculars. In this online seminar we will discuss the transfer and wide European reception of this work, and assess how it influenced European knowledge of Muḥammad and Islam over centuries.