Sunday, February 23, 2014
A Symposium at Brown University
RI Hall108
The seventh-century rise of Islam opened a new era of religious “pluralism” in the Middle East. Yet, it would be more than a century before early Muslim scholars recorded the first Arabic accounts of the changes taking place. Syriac and Arabic-speaking Christians, however, were already producing and navigating their own responses to the new political and social order. Historically, linguistically and culturally rooted in the central lands of Islam, yet sorely understudied as sources for early Islamic history, late antique and medieval Middle Eastern Christians provide fresh perspectives for understanding the nature of religious and social change in a dynamic era of history.
Symposium Schedule
14h00 : Sidney H. Griffith, Catholic University of America – Bible and Qur’an: Memory, Engagement and Difference
Nancy Khalek, Brown University, Respondent
15h15 : Break
15h45 : Michael Penn, Mt. Holyoke College – Beyond Clashing Civilizations: Rethinking Early Christian-Muslim Relations
Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Brown University, Respondent
17h00 : A roundtable discussion with Jonathan Conant, Brown University; Steven Judd, Southern-Connecticut State University; Sandra Toenies Keating, Providence College; Charles Stang, Harvard Divinity School; Anthony Watson, Brown University – New Questions in the study of early Muslim-Christian Relations
Source : Medieval Art Research
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