התרגומים העבריים בימי הביניים לחיבור משכאת אל-אנואר לאבו חאמד אל-עזאלי כמעצבי דיאלוג בין היהדות לאסלאם

The aim of this discussion is to explore the relationship between the two medieval Hebrew translations of al-Ghazālī’s influential Mishkāt al-Anwār, a major Sufi philosophical-mystical text that influenced Jewish medieval philosophy and mysticism. I outline the religious and cultural trends that characterize each translation, analyzing the philological, sociological and cultural dimensions of philosophical-mystical knowledge migration in the Middle Ages between religions and cultures, mediated by translations. To achieve this, I will study translators’ self-determined mission as mediators between religions, cultures, and mystical systems. My main thesis is that the translations of Mishkāt Al-Anwār from Arabic to Hebrew in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, and their radically different translation strategies, reflect two different patterns of inter-faith and intercultural dialogue between Judaism and Islam, and that these patterns helped shape Jewish mystical rationalism in the Middle Ages.