Our conference brought together specialists in Jewish, Christian and Muslim studies, from across Europe, North American and the Middle East. Together we explored the construction (and deconstruction) of narratives of the creation of religious...
The fruit of a sustained and close collaboration between historians, linguists and jurists working on the Christian, Muslim and Jewish societies of the Middle Ages, this book explores the theme of religious coexistence (and...
CALL FOR PAPERS 3-5 October 2018, Nantes, France “Identity”, wrote historian Tony Judt, “is a dangerous word”. Indeed identity politics today, often based on essentialized, ahistorical notions of religion and nation, call into question...
Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad dynasty in 750 CE, an important element in legitimizing their newly won authority involved defining themselves in the eyes of their Islamic subjects....
A certain triumphalist fatalism has long dominated the historiography of the rise of Christianity and that of the expansion of Islam. Eusebius and Jerome give the tone: they celebrate a Christian cult destined to...
