Encounters Among Faiths: The Morris W. Offit Symposium on Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Medieval Mediterranean, Johns Hopkins University, February 5, 2016
The medieval era — lasting roughly until the fifteenth century C.E. — was a fertile period of cultural exchange around the Mediterranean. Under the rule of Islamic empires, people of various faiths studied, worshiped, debated, loved, fought, wrote, and traded among one another. Later, in areas such as Christian Spain, such encounters were recast and re-imagined.
How did medieval Muslims, Jews, and Christians conceive of another? What made this period unique, and what is its legacy? Our speakers explore such questions, focusing especially on Spain, the Levant, and Egypt.
Keynote speaker: Dimitri Gutas, Yale University