University of Konstanz, International Conference (25 October, 31 October, 8 November 2024): Emerging Historical Perspectives on Christian-Muslim Interactions in and Around the Mediterranean (c. 630–1614)
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 2578
Special Issue Editors
Interests: history of the medieval Mediterranean; Christian-Muslim relations; interreligious communication
Interests: history of the medieval Mediterranean; Christian-Muslim relations; interreligious communication
Interests: history of the medieval Mediterranean; Christian-Muslim relations; interreligious communication
Interests: history of the Arab–Islamic world; Islamic studies; Qur’anic studies; history of Islamic–Christian dialogue and relations
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Dear Colleagues,
For much of the medieval millennium, interfaith Muslim and Christian groups coexisted in urban centres and rural areas in and around the Mediterranean. The Special Issue focuses on the various exchanges that took place between these diverse religious communities during the Middle Ages (c. 630–1614) across several geographical areas, including Iberia, Sicily, southern Italy, and the Near East.
Over the past three decades, a new wave of revisionist and interdisciplinary methodologies, ranging from gender and global history to medievalism and the history of emotions, have broadened our epistemological horizons, creating innovative avenues of enquiry that provide new ways of thinking about the historical roots of Christian-Muslim relations. Yet despite these recent methodological advances, and the various ways in which they enhance our understanding of oecumenical interactions, few studies have attempted to apply these new approaches in a trans-Mediterranean context from the Umayyad-Abbasid age to the Ottoman period.
By exploring the complex and much-studied topic of Christian-Muslim relations through the shifting lens of methodologies, this Special Issue aims to foster an interdisciplinary debate that, through comparison and collaboration between scholars from different fields, bridges rigid geographical and temporal frameworks. The main objective is to provide a platform for multi-disciplinary, trans-epochal approaches, which will expand ongoing academic debates relating to this complex, multi-faceted subject.
We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400–600 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest editors ([email protected]) or to Religions editorial office ([email protected]). Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editors to ensure that it fits within the scope of the special issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. James Wilson
Dr. Eric Böhme
Dr. Alejandro Peláez Martín
Dr. Marco Demichelis
Guest Editors
Hossameldin Ali
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
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Umayyad Christianity
- “Convivencia”-al-Andalus
- Christian “Conciliarism” and Islam
- approaches to translation
- Islamic law and Christian otherness
- trade activities
- knights and literature
- early European oriental studies
- communication at times of crisis or hardship
- medieval soundscapes
- urban environments
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