Uri Rubin

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Uri Rubin (2007)

Uri Rubin (born 1944 in Kirjat Ono , Israel ) is an Israeli Islamic scholar and university professor .

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Uri Rubin was born in Kirjat Ono , Israel, in 1944 . After a first degree in the history of the Middle East and Tanakh , which he completed with a bachelor's degree, he studied Arabic studies with Meir Jacob Kister at Tel Aviv University and received his doctorate with him in 1975 with a thesis on Mohammed , with a special focus on his eschatology World of thought.

Rubin is professor emeritus at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. He researches early Islam (with a special focus on the Koran ), Koran exegesis ( tafsīr ) and the early Islamic tradition ( sīra and ḥadīṯ ). The aim of his research is to present the worldview of the first Muslims in comparison to the pre-Islamic past Jāhilīya , taking into account the Koran and non-Koran religious and historiographical literature. He also researches the status of Jerusalem (including the Dome of the Rock ) in the early days of Islam, compared to Mecca and the Kaaba . He has translated various works from Arabic into Hebrew ; his Hebrew translation of the Koran was published in 2005. He is the author and editor of various works, as well as contributing to the Encyclopaedia of Islam and other specialist works. He was assistant editor on the editorial board of the Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān .

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Uri Rubin (Ed.): The Life of Muḥammad. Ashgate Variorum, Aldershot 1998, ISBN 0-86078-703-6 (= The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, vol. 4).
  • Uri Rubin: The eye of the beholder , the life of Muhammad as viewed by the early Muslims, a textual analysis, Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press 1995 (Studies in late antiquity and early Islam 5), ISBN 0-87850-110-X , 22f
  • Between Bible and Qur'an: The Children of Israel and the Islamic Self-Image . Princeton, New Jersey: The Darwin Press, 1999.
  • Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia . Variorum Collected Studies Series, Ashgate, 2011.
  • The Qur'an: Hebrew translation from the Arabic, annotations, appendices and index , 600 S., Tel Aviv, 2005 (hebr.)

other

  • "Repentance and Penance" in Jane Dammen McAuliffe (ed.): Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an . 6 vols. Leiden 2001-2006. Vol. IV, pp. 426-30.
  • " Al-Walad li-l-firāsh . On the Islamic campaign against 'zinā'" in Studia Islamica 80 (1994) 5-26.
  • Prophets and Caliphs: The Biblical Foundations of the Umayyad Authority. In: Herbert Berg (Ed.): Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins. Brill, Leiden 2003
  • al-walad li-l-firāsh. On the islamic campaign against "zinā". In: Studia Islamica (SI), Volume 78, 1993
  • The Assassination of Kaʿb b. al-Ashraf. In: Oriens . Volume 32, 1990
  • Between Arabia and the Holy Land: a Mecca-Jerusalem Axis of Sanctity. In: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam (JSAI). 34 (2008)
  • "The Ka'ba: aspects of its ritual functions and position in Pre-Isamic and early Islamic times." In: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam. 8 (1986)
  • "Ḥanīfiyya and Kaʿba. An inquiry into the Arabian pre-Islamic background of dīn Ibrāhīm" in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 13 (1990) 85-112.
  • "Morning and Evening Prayers in Early Islam" in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 10 (1987) 40-67.
  • Art. "Abū Ṭālib" in Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. Edited by: Gudrun Krämer , Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Brill Online, 2014.
  • "ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib b. Hāshim." Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. Edited by: Gudrun Krämer , Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Brill Online, 2013.
  • "Pre-Existence and Light - Aspects of the Concept of Nūr Muḥammad". In: Israel Oriental Studies 5 (1975), pp. 62-119
  • "Bar̄a'a: A Study of some Quranic Passages" in Jerusalem Studies of Arabic and Islam 5 (1984) 13-32.
  • Quran and Tafsīr . The case of "ʿan yadin". In: Der Islam, Vol. 70 (1993), pp. 133-144
  • Muhammad's night journey (isrāʾ) to al-masdjid al-aqṣā . Aspects of the earliest origins of the islamic sanctity of Jerusalem. In: al-Qantara 29 (2008), pp. 147-164.
  • Between Arabia and the Holy Land : A Mecca-Jerusalem axis of sanctity. In: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 34 (2008), pp. 345–362.
  • "The Direction of Prayer in Islam: A Contribution to the History of a Struggle between Rituals", in: Historiya 6 (5460/2000), pp. 5–29 (Heb.)

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. Yohanan Friedmann (ed.): On Translating the Quran: A Colloquium Marking the Publication of the Hebrew Translation of the Quran [Qur'an] by Uri Rubin. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities , Jerusalem , 2012
  2. ↑ Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an . Leiden: Brill.

literature

  • Nicolai Sinai (ed.): Update and interpretation: studies on the early interpretation of the Koran. (Discourses of Arabic Studies) 2009 ( partial online view )

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personal data
SURNAME Ruby, Uri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES אורי רובין (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli scholar of Islam
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirjat Ono , Israel