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••••• THE COHN-HabbOW
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JUDAIC STUDIES
Wayne State University • •

THE JEWS OF ISLAMIC LAND

An International Conference

October 21 - 24, 1990

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE
FORMATIVE AND CLASSICAL PERIODS
OF ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION

Sunday - October 21
Opening Address:
"The 'Jews of Islam' and
The Formation of the Judeo-lslamic
Tradition"
Bernard Lewis; Princeton University

Session III
Social Organization
9:30 a.m.-Noon

8:00 P.M.
Jewish Community Center
6600 W. Maple, West Bloomfield

Session IV
Economic and Political Foundations
2:15-5:00 p.m.

Featuring:

Michael Bonner, University of Michigan;
Ross Brann, Cornell University;
William Brinner, University of California-Berkley
Robert Chazan, New York University;
Mark Cohen, Princeton University;
Todd Endelman, University of Michigan;
M.A. Friedman, Tel Aviv University;
Moshe Gil, Cambrige University;
Norman Golb, University of Chicago;
Lenn Evan Goodman, University of Hawaii, Manoa;
Sidney Griffith, The Catholic University of America;
Joel Kraemer, Tel Aviv University;
Jacob Lassner, Wayne State University;
Nava Lazarus-Yafeh, The Hebrew University;
Bernard Lewis, Princeton University;
Gideon Libson, The Hebrew University;
Ron Nether, Oxford Centre
for Post-Graduate Hebrew Studies;
Franz Rosenthal, Yale University;
Paula Sanders, Rice University;
Raymond Scheindlin, The Jewish
Theological Seminary;
Gene Schramm, University of Michigan;
Norman Stillman, SUNY Binghamton;
A.L. Udovitch, Princeton University

Monday - October 22
Wayne State University
McGregor Memorial Conference Center

MAX KAPUSTIN MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM

Wednesday - October 24
Wayne State University
McGregor Memorial Conference Center

THE INTELLECTUAL MILIEU

INTERCOMMUNAL CONCERNS:
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES

Session I
Philosophical Encounters
9:30 a.m. - Noon

Session VI
Reflections on Minority Status in the
Lands of Islam and Medieval Europe:
Jews, Christians and Muslims
9:30 a.m.-Noon

Session II
Literary Encounters
2:15 - 5:00 p.m.

The Center is a cooperative venture of the
University and The United Jewish Charities
in cooperation with The Jewish Welfare
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.

Tuesday - October 23
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Rackham Building
Ann Arbor

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