Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Contexts of Interreligious Interaction -- Chapter 1: Observations on the Beginnings of Judeo-Arabic Civilization -- Chapter 2: Shurūt Umar: From Early Harbingers to Systematic Enforcement -- Chapter 3: Thinkers of "This Peninsula": Toward an Integrative Approach to the Study of Philosophy in al-Andalus -- Part II . Adopting and Accommodating the Foreign -- Chapter 4: Translations in Contact: Early Judeo-Arabic and Syriac Biblical Translations -- Chapter 5: Claims About the Mishna in the Epistle of Sherira Gaon: Islamic Theology and Jewish History -- Chapter 6: Maimonides and the Arabic Aristotelian Tradition of Epistemology -- Chapter 7: Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Fakhkhār al-Yahudī: An Arabic Poet and Diplomat in Castile and the Maghrib -- Part III . Crossing Borders: Agents of Interaction and Exchange -- Chapter 8: The Impact of Interreligious Polemic on Medieval Philosophy -- Chapter 9: Arabic into Hebrew: The Emergence of the Translation Movement in Twelfth-Century Provence and Jewish-Christian Polemic -- Chapter 10: Fusion Cooking in an Islamic Milieu: Jewish and Christian Jurists on Food Associated with Foreigners -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.