The Jewish discovery of Islam : studies in honor of Bernard Lewis / edited by Martin Kramer.

Brings together the presentations made at a conference ... convened at Tel Aviv University in June 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Martin Kramer -- Pedigree remembered, reconstructed, invented : Benjamin Disraeli between East and West / Minna Rozen -- 'Jew' and Jesuit at the origins of Arabism : William Gifford Palgrave / Benjamin Braude -- Arminius Vámbéry : identities in conflict / Jacob M. Landau -- Abraham Geiger : a nineteenth-century Jewish reformer on the origins of Islam / Jacob Lassner -- Ignaz Goldziher on Ernest Renan : from orientalist philology to the study of Islam / Lawrence I. Conrad -- The death of an Orientalist : Paul Kraus from Prague to Cairo / Joel L. Kraemer -- The road from Mecca : Muhammad Asad (born Leopold Weiss) / Martin Kramer -- The transplantation of Islamic studies from Europe to the Yishuv and Israel / Hava Lazarus-Yafeh -- The interaction of Judaic and Islamic studies in the scholarship of S.M. Stern / Shulamit Sela -- Evariste Lévi-Provençal and the historiography of Iberian Islam / David J. Wasserstein.