"Jewish and Muslim Reflections on the Human Lifespan," with Jessica Andruss, University of Virginia

The fourth talk of the series titled "Intertwined Worlds: Judaism and Islam in Historical Perspectives:"

"Jewish and Muslim Reflections on the Human Lifespan," with Jessica Andruss, University of Virginia

The human lifespan was a subject of shared interest among the Jewish and Muslim thinkers of the medieval Islamic world. What is the purpose of successive life stages, from gestation and birth through death and resurrection, and all the stages in between? How is the duration of each individual life determined? Jewish and Muslim scholars addressed such questions in their biblical and qurʾanic commentaries and their philosophical writings, often drawing upon their knowledge of the Greek medical tradition and their own life experience. This talk explores the intertwined worlds of Jewish and Muslim intellectual history by examining intersecting discourses about the stages of life and the transitions from one developmental stage to the next.

Jessica Andruss (PhD, University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of JEWISH PIETY IN ISLAMIC JERUSALEM and other studies of medieval Jewish and Islamic cultural and intellectual history.

This series is cosponsored by The Middle East North African Studies Program, The Comparative Literary Studies, The Northwestern Library, and The Alumnae of Northwestern University

This talk is open to the public.

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