Paul B. Fenton

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Paul B. Fenton (born in London in 1951 ) is a contemporary historian and orientalist who teaches as a professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) . His research focus is the study of Judaism in Islamic countries.

biography

Paul B. Fenton was born in London in 1951 into a Jewish family. As a young man he attended the Etz Chaim Yeshiva and the Jews' College there , renamed the London School of Jewish Studies at the turn of the millennium . In the early 1970s he received BA and MA degrees in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Strasbourg in France . He then studied at the Université Saint-Joseph University in Beirut , Lebanon . He received his doctorate at the Sorbonne under Georges Vajda (1908-1981).

After completing his doctorate , he taught Arabic at Cambridge University , where he also worked as a research assistant while studying the documents from the Cairo Geniza . From 1982 to 1992 he taught Hebrew and Hebrew literature at the University of Lyon and from 1992 to 1997 at the University of Strasbourg Hebrew literature. He has been a lecturer at the Sorbonne since 1997 and was later appointed deputy head of the Department of Arabic and Hebrew Studies at the university. Over the years he has been a visiting scholar at numerous universities, including the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Bar Ilan University , Oxford University and others.

Fenton's research interests include various areas, with a focus on medieval Jewish thought, North African Judaism, the Cairo Genisa and the influence of Sufism on medieval Judaism, with a particular focus on the Jewish-Sufi movement of Hasidim in Egypt and the Jewish- Muslim relationships focused. In addition, he published scientific editions of the works of the great sages of Spain, such as the Kitab al-durar ( A Book in Praise of God and the Israelite Communities ) by Rabbi Juda al-Charisi (1165-1225), which he wrote in 2009 together with Joshua Blau and Joseph Yahalom has compiled and published a new and translated edition. For example, Fenton wrote the article on Jewish mysticism for the encyclopedia Medieval Islamic Civilization by Josef W. Meri (ed.) .

In 2010 he was awarded a medal named after Alexandre Safran for his contributions to Jewish studies .

Publications (selection)

  • Jewish and Islamic mysticism . Translated from the English by Axel Monte . Books Ex Oriente, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-9813130-3-1 .
  • Experience et écriture mystiques in the religions du livre . Brill, Leiden 2000.
  • The Treatise of the Pool al-Maqâla al-Hawdiyya by 'Obadyah b. Abraham b.Moses Maimonides . First ed. from Bodleian Library , Oxford and Genizah fragments, translated by Paul Fenton with a Preface by Prof. G. Vajda, Londres (The Octagon Press), 1981 (reprinted 1995).
  • David b. Josué Maïmonide, Al-Murshid ila t-Tafarrud wal-Murfid ila t-Tajarrud , Doctor ad Solitudinem et Ductor ad Simplicitatem, édition du texte judéo-arabe avec une traduction hébraïque annotée, précédée d'uneïque introduction, Jérusalem ( université de hébraque introduction , Société Meqisé Nirdamim), 1987.
  • Obadyah et David Maïmonide, deux traités de mystique juive . Verdier, Paris 1987.
  • Published Material from Cambridge Genizah Collections: A Bibliography , 1896–1980, Ed. S. Reif assisted Paul Fenton, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989 ( Genizah Series ).
  • Handlist of Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts in Leningrad, A Tentative Hand-List of Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Firkovic Collections , compiled by PB Fenton, Institut Ben-Zvi, Jérusalem, 1991 (hebr.).
  • Bibliographie de l'œuvre de Georges Vajda, précédée d'un essai biographique , Louvain-Paris (Collection de la Revue des études juives), 1991.
  • Judah b. Nissim Ibn Malka, Judaeo-Arabic Commentary on the Pirqey Rabbi Eli'ezer with a Hebrew Translation and Supercommentary by Isaac b. Samuel of Acco , edited from MSS by Paul B. Fenton, Jerusalem 1991.
  • Ibn 'Arabi , La production des cercles , traduit et présenté par Paul Fenton et Maurice Gloton, Paris, (Editions de l'Éclat), 1996.
  • Philosophy et exégèse dans le Jardin de la métaphore de Moïse Ibn 'Ezra , philosophe et poète andalou du XII , Leyde (Etudes sur le Judaisme Médiéval, Brill), 1997.
  • P. Fenton (, Ed.) R. Gœtschel (Ed.): Écriture et expérience mystiques dans les religions monothéistes . Brill, Leiden 2000.
  • Séfer Yesirah , ou le Livre de la Création, exposé de cosmogonie hébraïque ancienne . Paris 2002.
  • G. Vajda & P. ​​Fenton, Le Commentaire sur le Livre de la Création de Dunash ben Tamîm de Kairouan . Paris-Louvain 2002.
  • Joseph b. Abraham Ibn Waqâr, Sefer shorshey ha-qabbâlâh, Principles of the Qabbalah . Los Angeles 2004.
  • Juda Ibn Malka, La Consolation de l'expatrié spirituel . Ed. De l'éclat, Paris 2008.
  • Juda al-Harizi, The Book of Pearls . English translation by P. Fenton. Jerusalem 2009.
  • L'Exil au Maghreb, la condition juive sous l'islam 1148–1912 . Presses universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris 2010.

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. Medieval Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Egypt: The Secular Poetry of the Karaite Poet Moses ben Abraham Darʿī. Karaite Texts and Studies, Volume 3, Joachim JMS Yeshaya Leiden 2011 & data.bnf.fr
  2. ^ "Mystizism, Jewish": Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach, Medieval Islamic Civilization: LZ, index. Volume 2 of Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Josef W. Meri, ISBN 0-415-96690-6 ; P. 545–548 ( partial online view )

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personal data
SURNAME Fenton, Paul B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES יוסף ינון פנטון (Hebrew); Yinon-Fenṭon, Yosef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Historian, orientalist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH London