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Freie Universität Berlin (Research Unit Intellectual History of the IslamicateWorld) and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (The Institute of Asian andAfrican Studies, The Nehemia Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies) solicitapplications for:The fourth NEW FRONTIERS IN ISLAMIC STUDIES German-Israeli Summer School,funded by the Einstein-Stiftung, Berlin*The transmission of ideas between religious communities in the medieval worldof Islam*15-19 September 2014 at Freie Universitat BerlinJews, Christians, and Muslims, the educated elite as well as uneducated masses,had Arabic (and at times Persian) as their common language and thereforenaturally shared a similar cultural background. Often reading the same booksand all speaking and writing in the same language, they created a uniqueintellectual commonality in which an ongoing, constant exchange of ideas,texts, and forms of discourse beyond communal barriers was the norm.This characteristic of the medieval world of Islam – which created what hasaptly been described as a “whirlpool effect” or a “crosspollination”– requires that the study of the intellectual tradition of any of the threemonotheistic religions disregard religious borders and that the one-dimensionalperspective that still prevails in modern research be replaced by truemulti-dimensionalism. The same applies for the so-called “EasternQuestion”, i.e., the Muslims’ interaction with the intellectual traditionsof the East, i.e., Iranian, Indian, Central Asian and perhaps even furtherEast, and the people who transmitted and developed them. The purpose of theSchool will be to familiarize the student participants with an integrativeapproach to the historiography of intellectual developments in the medieval,post-medieval and early modern period. Such a methodology requires first of allthat the various intellectual histories be read together in order to analyzethe ways in which their thought was formed and fashioned. Only such anintegrative approach can allow us to fully grasp the various multidimensionalflows of ideas and their respective transformation. In addition to thephilosophical/theological analysis of the material in question, the socialaspects of the transmission of writings particularly beyond communal barriersshed an important light on the ways in which these processes of transmissiontook place. Through a number of exemplary topics, this methodological approachwill be presented to the participants.Convenors: Prof. Sabine Schmidtke (Freie Universit?t Berlin), Prof. ReuvenAmitai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Coordinator: Ronny VollandtFor further information and application please see http://www.ihiw.de/w/e/summerschool/ or contact Ronny Vollandt (ronny.vollandt@fu-berlin.de)Applications, which should include CV, brief statement on current researchproject, and letter of motivation, will be accepted until 1 April 2014.--Dr Ronny VollandtResearch Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World Freie Universit?tBerlin Altensteinstr. 40D-14195 BerlinTel. +49-30-83859760Fax +49-30-83852830