Insaniyat: Journal of Islam and Humanities
Volume 1 Number 2, May 2017

Judeo-Arabic as a Frontier of Interaction between the Jews and Muslims

Leonard Chrysostomos Epafras (Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS), Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)



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Publish Date
17 May 2017

Abstract

As a continued discussion about the Judeo-Arabic as a cultural symbiosis of the Jews in the Islamicate context, the present article enhances it with the discussion of frontier as a theoretical framework to understand the Jewish condition in the Muslim realm, in particular in Al-Andalus. Hence, the Judeo- Arabic becomes an actualization of the politics of language by the Jews. In addition to the fact that the Judeo-Arabic being nurtured by the Arabic literature, the Jews also carried out their experiences in diaspora critically through the usage of the Arabic and the Judeo-Arabic cultural container.DOI: 10.15408/insaniyat.v1i2.5472

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insaniyat

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Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Library & Information Science Social Sciences

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Insaniyat: Journal of Islam and Humanities is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Faculty of Adab and Humanities, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) of Jakarta. It aims to publish research findings that relates to the studies of language, literature, social, ...