Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Biographic Data
| ID | 5523012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zvi Ben-Dor Benite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zvi Ben-Dor |
| FAMILY NAME | Benite |
| SIGNATURE | BENITE Z B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Accountants of Nineveh
This essay presents and discusses how James Rennel (1742-1830), a royal cartographer in eighteenth-century Bengal and father of British Modern Geography, presented and discussed the biblical concept of "exile" as a "practice" for the benefit of the empire. Following Rennell's readings in Biblical and Classical texts, this essay shows how Rennell intervened in contemporary European debates about Jews and trade
Taking ʿAbduh to China
Scaffolding of Sovereignty
“Como los hebreos en España”
Este trabajo trata de las posibilidades del cambio cultural en los escritos de Matteo Ricci. Para poder conocer mejor esta cuestión, este estudio discute diversos aspectos de la percepción de Matteo Ricci sobre el Islam y los musulmanes en China, identificando los momentos en los que cambia. He podido mostrar cómo, a lo largo del tiempo, Ricci desarrolló una percepción cada vez más matizada del Islam en China, pero sostengo que sus opiniones se m…
The Possibility of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
While the vast scholarly fields of modern Jewish thought and modern Jewish intellectual history effectively include no texts by Jews who are of non-European origin, the domain of modern Middle Eastern intellectual history includes no writings by native Middle Eastern Jews. Aiming to help remedy this dual void, this article presents the core premises and argumentation of several pre-1936 Middle Eastern Jewish intellectuals. In filling in some of t…
Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
This volume opens the canon of modern Jewish thought to the all too often overlooked writings of Jews from the Arab East, from the close of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Whether they identified as Sephardim, Mizrahim, anticolonialists, or Zionists, these thinkers engaged the challenges and transformations of Middle Eastern Jewry in this decisive period. Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite present Jewish culture and politic…
Religions and World History
This article examines the link between religions and world history. Samuel Purchas's initial approach to world history was simply ‘observing’ all the world's religions. The project grew to encompass much more, but the idea of ‘pilgrimage’ remained prominent. Religions are often presented as a universal human experience, yet there is in fact no universal definition of religion. In some cultures a religion is more a system of faith or of thought or…
Western Gods Meet in the East”
This essay is concerned with the possibilities and limitations of the Jesuit-Islamic dialogue in China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It presents and discusses evidence for the interest of Chinese Muslims and Jesuits in each other almost from the outset, immediately after Matteo Ricci’s arrival in China. Muslims read Jesuit material and even incorporated it in their own works. Chinese Muslims were not, however, interested in Jesuit d…
AHR Forum
1776-1847) likened every period in history to a sphinx whose riddle is resolved, and posed again, at moments of social transformation.Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) later famously paraphrased Ballanche, declaring that every epoch is "a sphinx that plunges into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved." 1 It is no coincidence that this image was coined by two romantic skeptics at a moment when modernity's march through Europe, and the world, se…
From ‘Literati’ to ‘Ulama
Since 1951 the official Chinese historiographic position has maintained that Chinese History stands as one ‘parmenidean’ whole, in which national histories of the various minzu (nationalities) are at once their own singular narratives and vital components of the greater narrative as well. Only after earlier historiographic attempts to come to grips with the relationship between two reified entities—‘Islam’ and ‘China’—did Chinese Muslim history e…
From ‘Literati’ to ‘Ulama
Since 1951 the official Chinese historiographic position has maintained that Chinese History stands as one ‘parmenidean’ whole, in which national histories of the various minzu (nationalities) are at once their own singular narratives and vital components of the greater narrative as well. Only after earlier historiographic attempts to come to grips with the relationship between two reified entities—‘Islam’ and ‘China’—did Chinese Muslim history e…
The Possibility of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
While the vast scholarly fields of modern Jewish thought and modern Jewish intellectual history effectively include no texts by Jews who are of non-European origin, the domain of modern Middle Eastern intellectual history includes no writings by native Middle Eastern Jews. Aiming to help remedy this dual void, this article presents the core premises and argumentation of several pre-1936 Middle Eastern Jewish intellectuals. In filling in some of t…
AHR Forum
1776-1847) likened every period in history to a sphinx whose riddle is resolved, and posed again, at moments of social transformation.Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) later famously paraphrased Ballanche, declaring that every epoch is "a sphinx that plunges into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved." 1 It is no coincidence that this image was coined by two romantic skeptics at a moment when modernity's march through Europe, and the world, se…
Western Gods Meet in the East”
This essay is concerned with the possibilities and limitations of the Jesuit-Islamic dialogue in China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It presents and discusses evidence for the interest of Chinese Muslims and Jesuits in each other almost from the outset, immediately after Matteo Ricci’s arrival in China. Muslims read Jesuit material and even incorporated it in their own works. Chinese Muslims were not, however, interested in Jesuit d…
From ‘Literati’ to ‘Ulama
Since 1951 the official Chinese historiographic position has maintained that Chinese History stands as one ‘parmenidean’ whole, in which national histories of the various minzu (nationalities) are at once their own singular narratives and vital components of the greater narrative as well. Only after earlier historiographic attempts to come to grips with the relationship between two reified entities—‘Islam’ and ‘China’—did Chinese Muslim history e…
AHR Forum
1776-1847) likened every period in history to a sphinx whose riddle is resolved, and posed again, at moments of social transformation.Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) later famously paraphrased Ballanche, declaring that every epoch is "a sphinx that plunges into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved." 1 It is no coincidence that this image was coined by two romantic skeptics at a moment when modernity's march through Europe, and the world, se…
Religions and World History
This article examines the link between religions and world history. Samuel Purchas's initial approach to world history was simply ‘observing’ all the world's religions. The project grew to encompass much more, but the idea of ‘pilgrimage’ remained prominent. Religions are often presented as a universal human experience, yet there is in fact no universal definition of religion. In some cultures a religion is more a system of faith or of thought or…
Western Gods Meet in the East”
This essay is concerned with the possibilities and limitations of the Jesuit-Islamic dialogue in China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It presents and discusses evidence for the interest of Chinese Muslims and Jesuits in each other almost from the outset, immediately after Matteo Ricci’s arrival in China. Muslims read Jesuit material and even incorporated it in their own works. Chinese Muslims were not, however, interested in Jesuit d…
Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
This volume opens the canon of modern Jewish thought to the all too often overlooked writings of Jews from the Arab East, from the close of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Whether they identified as Sephardim, Mizrahim, anticolonialists, or Zionists, these thinkers engaged the challenges and transformations of Middle Eastern Jewry in this decisive period. Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite present Jewish culture and politic…
The Possibility of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
While the vast scholarly fields of modern Jewish thought and modern Jewish intellectual history effectively include no texts by Jews who are of non-European origin, the domain of modern Middle Eastern intellectual history includes no writings by native Middle Eastern Jews. Aiming to help remedy this dual void, this article presents the core premises and argumentation of several pre-1936 Middle Eastern Jewish intellectuals. In filling in some of t…
“Como los hebreos en España”
Este trabajo trata de las posibilidades del cambio cultural en los escritos de Matteo Ricci. Para poder conocer mejor esta cuestión, este estudio discute diversos aspectos de la percepción de Matteo Ricci sobre el Islam y los musulmanes en China, identificando los momentos en los que cambia. He podido mostrar cómo, a lo largo del tiempo, Ricci desarrolló una percepción cada vez más matizada del Islam en China, pero sostengo que sus opiniones se m…
Scaffolding of Sovereignty
Taking ʿAbduh to China
The Accountants of Nineveh
This essay presents and discusses how James Rennel (1742-1830), a royal cartographer in eighteenth-century Bengal and father of British Modern Geography, presented and discussed the biblical concept of "exile" as a "practice" for the benefit of the empire. Following Rennell's readings in Biblical and Classical texts, this essay shows how Rennell intervened in contemporary European debates about Jews and trade
Ancient history (9 works) · History (9 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Islamic Studies and History (5 works) · China (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works)