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RABINOVICH, Silvana. Utopias of Translation: The Jewish-Arabic Language between Fear and Confidence. Decolonizing Echoes of Arab Jewish Thinkers of All Times. Estud. Asia Áfr. [online]. 2025, vol.60, n.3, e3059.  Epub 06-Oct-2025. ISSN 2448-654X.  https://doi.org/10.24201/eaa.v60i3.e3059.

A utopian promise of bi-national and inter-religious coexistence nestles in the Judeo-Arabic language, a millennia-old translator between two cultures that national-colonial political theology reduces to enmity. In translation (in a philosophical sense), seeking to de-essentialize Hebrew and Arabic, I see utopia as enabling the decolonization of political theology for the sake of a cosmopolitics of language. For a millennium the Arabic and Hebrew languages, whose enmity today is considered inexorable, were able to think, believe, and create -with others- different expressions of the fear of the same God. From some fragments of Judeo-Arabic texts of the 10th and 11th centuries, based on a heteronomous ethical and political perspective, I analyze the utopian potentialities of the act of translation.

Palabras llave : Hebrew; Arab; interreligiosity; decolonization; cosmopolitics.

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