Sabine Schmidtke
Biographic Data
| ID | 487996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabine Schmidtke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabine |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidtke |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDTKE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Advanced Study |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6181-5065 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 21 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Composite Christian Arabic Manuscript in the Köprülü Library: Ms. Istanbul, Köprülü, Mehmed Âsım Bey, 1 bis
This notice presents the first detailed description of Ms. Istanbul, Köprülü Library, Mehmed Âsım Bey 1 bis , a composite Christian Arabic manuscript hitherto known only through a minimal catalog entry. The codex consists of numerous fragmentary units copied by different hands and brought together without a codicological plan. Its contents include multiple independent Arabic New Testament witnesses – fragments of three distinct Gospel manuscripts…
The Last Generation of the Wissenschaft des Judentums: The Case of Ern(e)st Mainz (1905–1984) and Marie Miriam Mainz née Leibowitz (1904–1983)
The numerous Jewish scholars who were born in Germany in the first two decades of the twentieth century, received a thorough Jewish education, and then turned to Islamic/Oriental studies represent the last generation of the Wissenschaft des Judentums . The careers and often the lives of many of them came to an abrupt end with the rise of the Nazis and World War II , though some managed, through painstaking efforts, to continue their academic purs…
Abraham Shalom Yahuda’s German Assistants: The Cases of Hans Kindermann and Hans L. Gottschalk
Over the past decade or two, the formation, provenance, and history of manuscript collections around the world have become a focus of scholarly attention. This trend has prompted numerous studies of the Jerusalem-born cosmopolitan Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877–1951), arguably the most important seller of Islamic manu- scripts to Western collectors and libraries during the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century. One area that has not been…
Martin Schreiner between Islamic Studies and »Wissenschaft des Judentums«: Reconstructing His Scholarly Biography
In 1906 Martin Schreiner, who had been diagnosed with mental illness four years previously, wrote from the Sanatorium Berolinum in Berlin-Lankwitz to the librarian of the »Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judentums« in Berlin, asking to send him some books, in the hope of being released soon. This letter and some short letters dating from 1920 and 1922 constitute Schreiner's last written testimonies. His mental illness painfully and suddenly …
From Wissenschaft des Judentums to Wissenschaft des Islams: Eugen Mittwoch between Jewish and Islamic Studies
In the course of the nineteenth century, »Oriental studies« evolved as an independent academic discipline. While these developments primarily involved scholarswhoidentified as Christians, Jewish scholars, too, adoptedacritical historical/ philological approach towards the Jewish literary tradition and its history, an approach that became known as Wissenschaft des Judentums. Although the close relationship between the Wissenschaft des Judentums an…
Paul Kahle and His Catalog of the Arabic Manuscripts of the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Although Paul Kahle's involuntary exile from Germany during the Second World War caused him considerable economic hardship, it also opened up entirely new scholarly horizons for him, as his principal occupation during the years 1939 through 1947 was the preparation of a catalog of the manuscripts of the Chester Beatty Collection and a catalog of the Arabic manuscripts of the Bodleian Library that had been acquired since 1835. Neither catalog was …
Paul E. Kahle - A Largely Forgotten Scholar of Hebraica, Arabica, and Islamica
Paul E. Kahle - A Largely Forgotten Scholar of Hebraica, Arabica, and Islamica
Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond Volume I: Essays in Honor of Sarah Stroumsa
A Jewish Refutation of Samawʾal al-Maghribī’s Ifḥām al-Yahūd: An Annotated Translation
This article offers a contribution to the study of polemics between Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages. It presents an annotated translation of the extant fragments of a reply by an unknown Jew to the polemical tract Ifḥām al-Yahūd in which the mathematician Samawʾal al-Maghribī (d. 570/1175), who converted to Islam in 558/1163, virulently attacks his former religion. Samawʾal’s tract had a significant impact both on later Muslim polemicists and…
Titelseiten
Preliminary Material
The Library of Eugen Mittwoch (1876–1942)
Eugen Mittwoch (1876–1942) was one of the most prominent representatives of German Orientalism during the first decades of the twentieth century. Trained as an Arabist and Semitist, Mittwoch was at the same time a specialist of Ethiopian studies, and he was part of the circle of Carl Heinrich Becker (1876–1933) who initiated a new direction for Islamic studies in Orientalism. At the same time, Mittwoch was also engaged in the study of the Geniza …
Rudolf Strothmann’s Trip to the Middle East (1929/30): Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, Anatolia, the Levant, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, and Yemen
Rudolf Strothmann (b.1877, d. 1960) is primarily known as a pioneer of studies in Western, and German, scholarship. 1 Between 1910 and 1923, he published a number of pathbreaking studies on the Zaydiyya. 2At the same time, Strothmann began to delve into Twelver literature, an endeavour which culminated in his 1926 monograph, Die Zwlfer-Scha: Zwei religionsgeschichtliche Charakterbilder aus der Mongolenzeit.Prompted by Eugenio Griffini's (
Scribal Habits in Near Eastern Manuscript Traditions
Most scholars who employ manuscripts in their research tend to focus on the literary content itself. But what about the role of the scribe who typically remains at the periphery of research? How can we, in the words of the NT textual critic James Royse, “virtually look over the scribe’s shoulder” to understand the process by which our manuscripts were produced? Moreover, manuscripts often contain far more material than the words that form their p…
Saʿd b. Manṣūr Ibn Kammūna’s Writings and Transcriptions in the Maktabat al-Rawḍa al-Ḥaydariyya, Najaf: Preservation, Loss, and Recovery of the Philosophical Heritage of Muslims and Jews
This paper attempts to reconstruct the corpus of writings by Ibn Kammūna as well as his transcriptions of works by others that were kept in the Rawḍa al-Ḥaydariyya in Najaf during the early twentieth century. Additionally, the paper discusses a slim codex, which was sold by Dreweatts in 2019 (“Lot 69”) and resurfaced on the market in October 2020 when it was offered for auction by Sotheby’s as “Lot 406”. A tentative suggestion is made that the co…
Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible: Texts and Studies
The Intricacies of Capturing the Holdings of a Mosque Library in Yemen: The Library of the Shrine of Imām al-Hādī, Ṣaʿda
Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies - Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2018
Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018
The history of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study dates back to 1935, and it is the one area of scholarship that has been continuously represented at the Institute ever since. The volume opens with a historical sketch of the study of the Near and Middle East at the Institute. The second part of the volume consists of essays and short studies by IAS scholars, past and present, covering fields such as the ancient Ne…
The Zaydi Manuscript Tradition: Virtual Repatriation of Cultural Heritage
The manuscript tradition of the Zaydi branch of Shiʿism, which since the 9th century has been preserved primarily in Yemen, is nowadays dispersed over countless libraries in Yemen and the Middle East, Turkey, Europe, and the United States, of which only a fraction has been digitized and is available for open access. Its treasures came to the attention of scholars outside Yemen at a relatively late stage. Whereas the bulk of Arabic manuscripts now…
Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions
Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions
Ibn Masarra’s (d. 931) Third Book
Although Muslim sources mention several books written by the Andalusī thinker Muḥammad Ibn Masarra (d. 319/931), only two books of his are extant and identified with certainty. This chapter reviews the evidence regarding Ibn Masarra and his books, and focuses on a quotation from a third book. Despite its brevity, this quotation adds some important information to our scanty knowledge about Ibn Masarra. An analysis of this quotation can therefore s…
The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy
The study of Islamic philosophy has recently entered a new and exciting phase. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the grand narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. The bulk of twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy focused on the period from the ninth century to the twelfth. It is a measure of the transformation that is currently un…
The Muʿtazilite Movement (II)
This chapter examines the theology of the early Muʿtazilites. First we consider the state of the sources in which their positions are preserved, the individual figures involved, and their historical context. We indicate the relation of Muʿtazilites to their contemporaries, orthodox and heretical, and enumerate the central tenets of their theology. Then we consider the outstanding features of early Muʿtazilite theology in practice, beginning with …
Accusations of Unbelief in Islam: A Diachronic Perspective on Takfīr
The present volume—the first of its kind—deals with takfīr: accusing one ́s opponents of unbelief (kufr). Originating in the first decades of Islam, this practice has been applied intermittently ever since. The nineteen studies included here deal with cases, covering different periods and parts of the Muslim world, of individuals or groups that used the instrument of takfīr to brand their opponents—either persons, groups or even institutions—as u…
The Muslim reception of biblical materials: Ibn Qutayba and his Aʿlām al-nubuwwa
The two earliest extant Muslim works containing comprehensive lists of biblical predictions of the Prophet Muhammad from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are the Kitāb al-dīn wa-al-dawla by the Nestorian convert to Islam ʿAlī Ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī (b. ca. 194/810, d. 251/865) and the Aʿlām al-nubuwwa by Ibn Rabban's contemporary Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Qutayba (b. 213/828, d. 276/889). Ibn Qutayba's Aʿlām al-nubuwwa clearly ec…
The Zaydi Manuscript Tradition: Virtual Repatriation of Cultural Heritage
The manuscript tradition of the Zaydi branch of Shiʿism, which since the 9th century has been preserved primarily in Yemen, is nowadays dispersed over countless libraries in Yemen and the Middle East, Turkey, Europe, and the United States, of which only a fraction has been digitized and is available for open access. Its treasures came to the attention of scholars outside Yemen at a relatively late stage. Whereas the bulk of Arabic manuscripts now…
Abū al- usayn al-Ba rī and his Transmission of Biblical Materials from Kitāb al-Dīn wa-al-Dawla by Ibn Rabban al- abarī: The Evidence from Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Mafātī al-ghayb
The authenticity of the Kitāb al-dīn wa-al-dawla by the Nestorian convert to Islam, Abū al-asan ʿAlī b. Sahl Rabban al-abarī (d. ca. 251/865), has been discussed since the publication of the text by A. Mingana in 1922 Mingana, A. (1922) The Book of Religion and Empire. A Semi-Official Defence and Exposition of Islam Written by Order at the Court and with the Assistance of the Caliph Mutawakkil (A.D. 847–861) by ʿAlī abarī. Translated with a criti…
Rationalisme et théologie dans le monde musulman médiéval: Bref état des lieux
L’article est un bref bilan bibliographique des sources et des travaux concernant la théologie rationaliste dans le monde musulman au Moyen-Âge (grosso modo du 8e au 15e siècle de l’ère commune). Les principales Écoles de la théologie spéculative scolastique, surtout le Mu‘tazilisme et l’Ash‘arisme, ainsi que les plus importantes étapes des études islamologiques sur ces Écoles sont examinées. Une attention particulière est accordée à la constante…
Some Notes on a New Edition of a Medieval Philosophical Text in Turkey: Shams al-dīn Al-shahrazūrī's Rasā'il al-Shajara al-Ilāhiyya
miszelle 76 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2006 Die Welt des Islams 46, 1 Also available online – www.brill.nl MISZELLE SOME NOTES ON A NEW EDITION OF A MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHICAL TEXT IN TURKEY: SHAMS AL-DμN AL-SHAHRAZ·Rμ’S RAS@}IL AL-SHAJARA AL-IL@HIYYA * BY REZA POURJAVADY & SABINE SCHMIDTKE Berlin One of the key texts for later Islamic philosophy in the Eastern lands of Islam and in the Ottoman Empire was the Ras ̧}il al-Shajara al-il ̧hiyya fo …
Die westliche Konstruktion Marokkos als Landschaft freier Homoerotik
die westliche konstruktion marokkos 375 © Koninklijke Brill BV, Leiden, 2000 Die Welt des Islams 40, 3 DIE WESTLICHE KONSTRUKTION MAROKKOS ALS LANDSCHAFT FREIER HOMOEROTIK * VON SABINE SCHMIDTKE Berlin Ein konstantes Motiv der abendländisch-westlichen Darstellung des islamischen Kulturraums, für die Edward S AID den Begriff Orientalismus geprägt hat, 1 ist die Vorstellung vom Islam als einer Religion ausgeprägter Sinnlichkeit und Wollust. Im Mitt…
Twelver-Shī'ite Resources in Europe
Neuere Forschungen zur Muʿtazila unter Besonderer Berücksichtigung der Späteren Muʿtazila ab dem 4./10. Jahrhundert
L'article est une presentation des etudes islamologiques consacrees au mu'tazilisme. L'histoire de celui-ci s'etend sur une periode d'environ cinq siecles (2e/8e au 7e/13e siecles) au bout desquels il cessa d'exister dans le sunnisme. Ce n'est qu'au debut du 20e siecle qu'un mouvement de rehabilitation de l'ecole vit le jour, mettant ainsi fin a plusieurs siecles d'absence quasi-totale. La litterature heresiographique constituait les principales …
The Doctrine of the Transmigration of Soul according to Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī (killed 587/1191) and his Followers
L'article concerne l'attitude des philosophes illuminationistes a l'egard de la metempsycose. Y sont analysees les positions de Suhrawhardi (execute en 587/1191) dans sa Hikmat al-ishraq, de Shahrazuri (m. apres 688/1288) dans sa al-Shajara al-ilahiyya et d'Ibn Abi Jumhur (m. apres 906/1501) dans son Kitab al-Mujli. Alors que ces penseurs professent l'origine temporelle de l'âme, d'autres en l'occurrence le philosophe juif Ibn Kammuna (m. 1284) e…
Homoeroticism and homosexuality in Islam: A review article
From the medieval confrontation between the Muslim world and Christendom to the present day, the moral and social institutions of the respective “ other” have been the subject of close cross-cultural attention. In particular, questions related to sexual morality, including the issue of homosexuality, were, and still are, used as a polemical focus for mutual denigration
Theologie, Philosophie und Mystik im zwölferschiitischen Islam des 9./15. Jahrhunderts: Die Gedankenwelten des Ibn Abī Ǧumhūr al-Aḥsā'ī (um 838/1434/35 - nach 906/1501)
This volume focuses on the theological views of the Imāmī Shī‘ite theologian Muḥammad b. ‘Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Abī Jumhūr al-Aḥsā’ī (d. after 906/1501), who combined traditional thought of the Mu‘tazilites with the philosophical tradition of Ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037), with the Illuminationist (Ishrāqī) tradition of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī (executed in 587/1191 and his followers, and with the speculative mysticism of Ibn al-‘Arabī (d. 638/1204). Ibn…
Die westliche Konstruktion Marokkos als Landschaft freier Homoerotik
die westliche konstruktion marokkos 375 © Koninklijke Brill BV, Leiden, 2000 Die Welt des Islams 40, 3 DIE WESTLICHE KONSTRUKTION MAROKKOS ALS LANDSCHAFT FREIER HOMOEROTIK * VON SABINE SCHMIDTKE Berlin Ein konstantes Motiv der abendländisch-westlichen Darstellung des islamischen Kulturraums, für die Edward S AID den Begriff Orientalismus geprägt hat, 1 ist die Vorstellung vom Islam als einer Religion ausgeprägter Sinnlichkeit und Wollust. Im Mitt…
Studies on Sa'd b. Manshûr Ibn Kammûna (d. 683/1284)
Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī's (634/1236-719/1311) Durrat al-Tāj and its Sources
Speaking for Islam: Religious Authorities in Muslim Societies
Introduction: Religious Authority and Religious Authorities in Muslim Societies. A Critical Overview
One of the most salient features of the Zahiri or literalist, school of law is its total rejection of qiys: reasoning by analogy. The Zhir madhhab, which is now extinct, originated in 3rd/9th century Baghdad, where it was initiated by Ab Sulaymn Dawud b. 'Al al-Isfahn. Dawuds teachings were also exported to the Islamic West. Although several of them contributed to the spread of Zahiri scholarship in their writings, we remain entirely dependent on…
Rational Theology in Interfaith Communication: Abu-I-Husayn al-Basri's Mu'tazili Theology among the Karaites in the Fatimid Age
Rational speculative theology (kalam) in early Islam was represented most distinctly by the theological school of the Mu‘tazila. Founded in Basra in the early 8th century, the school soon became predominant in theological scholarship and discourse and remained so until the early 11th century. The Mu‘tazila held that the basic truths of theology, such as the existence of God and the nature of His attributes and justice, are entirely subject to rat…
Speaking for Islam: Religious Authorities in Muslim Societies
Introduction: Religious Authority and Religious Authorities in Muslim Societies. A Critical Overview Gudrun Kramer and Sabine Schmidtke This day have I perfected your religion for you: A Zahiri Conception of Religious Authority Camilla Adang The Epistemology of Excellence: Sunni-Shi'i Dialectics on Legitimate Leadership Asma Afsaruddin The Relationship between Chief Qadi and Chief Da'i under the Fatimids Paul E. Walker Forms and Functions of `Lic…
Muslim Polemics against Judaism and Christianity in 18 th Century Iran
Le Radd-i shubuhat al-kuffar de Aqa Muhammad 'Ali Bihbahani Kirmanshahi (m. 1216/1801), figure parmi les ouvrages de refutation diriges contre les missionnaires chretiens et ecrits sur l'ordre de Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar (r. 1212/1797-1250/ 1834). L'article s'interesse aux sources litteraires de cet ouvrage, et notamment au Tanqih al-abhath li-l-milal al-thalath d'lbn Kammuna (m. 683/1284) et a l'Ifham al-yahud de Samaw'al al-Maghribi (m. 570/1175). …
Some Notes on a New Edition of a Medieval Philosophical Text in Turkey: Shams al-dīn Al-shahrazūrī's Rasā'il al-Shajara al-Ilāhiyya
miszelle 76 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2006 Die Welt des Islams 46, 1 Also available online – www.brill.nl MISZELLE SOME NOTES ON A NEW EDITION OF A MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHICAL TEXT IN TURKEY: SHAMS AL-DμN AL-SHAHRAZ·Rμ’S RAS@}IL AL-SHAJARA AL-IL@HIYYA * BY REZA POURJAVADY & SABINE SCHMIDTKE Berlin One of the key texts for later Islamic philosophy in the Eastern lands of Islam and in the Ottoman Empire was the Ras ̧}il al-Shajara al-il ̧hiyya fo …
A Common Rationality: Mu'tazilism in Islam and Judaism
The Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (d. 710/1311) Codex (Ms. Mar'ashī 12868)
Les fonds des manuscrits dans le monde conservent de nombreux textes transcrits de la main de Qutb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (634/1236-710/1311), l'un des savants les plus renommes du monde islamique oriental au cours de la fin du VII e /XIll e et le debut du VIII e /XlV e siecles. Cet auteur est egalement connu pour avoir ecrit en 685/1286, a Konya, un recueil (majmu'a). Pendant longtemps, notre connaissance de ce volume se reduisait aux donnees fournie…
Qāḍī 'Abd al-Jabbār al-Hamadhānī (d. 415/1025), On the Promise and Threat
Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus. An International Who's Who in Islamic Studies from its Beginnings down to the Twentieth Century. Bio-bibliographical Supplement to Index Islamicus, 1…
"Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus. An International Who's Who in Islamic Studies from its Beginnings down to the Twentieth Century. Bio-bibliographical Supplement to Index Islamicus, 1665-1980. Volume Two, H-M" published on 01 Jan 2008 by Brill
El tratado de polémica contra el judaismo de Aḥmad Muṣṭafā Ṭāšhkubrīzāde (m. 968/1561)
Este artículo estudia un corto tratado de polémica en contra del judaísmo escrito por el conocido erudito otomano Aḥmad Muṣṭafā Ṭāšhkubrīzāde (m. 968/1560). El autor utiliza los mismos argumentos que conocemos de la polémica religiosa medieval, tales como que la Torah, abrogada por el Islam, contenía referencias al Profeta Muḥammad a pesar de que su texto fue corrompido por los judíos. Además de la Biblia, Ṭāšhkubrīzāde cita una serie de fuentes …
The Three Rings. Textual Studies in the Historical Trialogue of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Islamische Handschriften. Teil 4. Handschriften der Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Stiftung (Köln)
Reason and Inspiration in Islam. Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Muslim Thought. Essays in Honour of Hermann Landolt
Arabische Handschriften. Teil 6. Die Handschriften der Sammlung Oskar Rescher in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Band 3
New Sources for the Life and Work of Ibn Abī Jumhūr al-Aḥsā'ī
Deux manuscrits recemment decouverts enrichissent de facon significative notre savoir sur la vie et l'œuvre de Ibn Abī Jumhūr al-Aḥsā'ī (m. apres 906/1501). Les volumes, aujourd'hui conserves a la Kitābkhāna-yi Madrasa-yi 'ilmiyya-yi Marwi de Teheran (mss Marwi 855 et 874), contiennent exclusivement les ecrits d'Ibn Abī Jumhūr, et, de toute evidence, ils ont ete copies de son vivant, comme en temoigne la presence de nombreux ijāzāt et notices mar…
Organizing Knowledge. Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World. Preface by Abdou Filali-Ansary
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