This online/blended joint seminar with students from Haifa University seminar looks at the regional history of philosophy in the Middle East in the early 20th-century. It will focus on three intellectual centers: Beirut with its two Christian universities and their impact on the Nahda movement and early Arab nationalism; Jerusalem with the Hebrew University, European Christian missions and Palestinian learned societies; and Cairo, the heart of Muslim reform movements, Arab nationalism and liberalism, expressed in a wide range of religious, academic and cultural institutions. The seminar takes a comparative approach to the role played by modern philosophy in these three intellectual centers. It will study the reception of European philosophy and science by Middle Eastern intellectuals, as well as the philosophical transformation of Christian, Jewish and Islamic religious traditions in the emerging colonial and national contexts. The seminar is offered to students in Haifa and Berlin and allows them to interact through a blended learning approach. Knowledge of Arabic or Hebrew is not presupposed, but students with these languages will be supplied with addditional material to explore the topic further. If Covid-19 restrictions in place mid-October allow for it, participants from Berlin will meet in-person for the first session in the room indicated. Please get up-to-date information from Blackboard or write the instructor. Schließen