What: Sarah Stroumsa, Professor of Arabic Studies and Rector at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, will speak on her new book, Maimonides in His World, which will be published by Princeton University Press in October.  One of the world’s foremost scholars of Judeo-Arabic philosophy, Stroumsa argues that Maimonides, the leading Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages (1138-1204), is most accurately viewed as a Mediterranean thinker who consistently interpreted his own religious tradition in contemporary multicultural terms. Spending his entire life in the Mediterranean region, he was, she shows, deeply influenced by both Islamic philosophy and Islamic culture as a whole as he dealt with the complex world of theology and religious ideas he encountered among Jews, Christians, Muslims, and even heretics. 

When: Tuesday, September 29 ~ 8 p.m.

Where: McCook Auditorium on the campus of Trinity College
300 Summit Street, Hartford, Conn. 06106

Information: For Professor Stroumsa’s faculty profile at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, visit: http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~stroums/.   Professor Stoumsa’s lecture, entitled: “Maimonides: Mediterranean Thinker," is sponsored by the The Jewish Studies Program and The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, and is free and open to the public.  For more information, please contact Ronald Kiener at 860-297-2427 or at Ronald.Kiener@trincoll.edu, or Mark Silk at 860-297-2352 or at Mark.Silk@trincoll.edu.  

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