IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1327: Christianity in the Islamic World, IV: Coexistence and Conversion
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Krisztina Szilágyi, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge |
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Moderator/Chair: | Sarah Stroumsa, Department of Arabic Language & Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Paper 1327-a | Syrian Historical Writing on Conversion between Christianity and Islam, 640-850 (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Semitic |
Paper 1327-b | Economic Parity between Christians and Muslims in 9th-Century Baghdad (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Semitic |
Paper 1327-c | Eulogius of Córdoba and the Arabization of Public Life in Al-Andalus (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Abstract | The Christians of the Islamic world were caught between the permission to practice their religion and the easier social advancement if abandoning it. Many chose to do the latter, a phenomenon discussed in two papers of the session. Mutter examines conversions to and from Islam in early Islamic Syria, and the implications of such decisions. The other two papers point to ways of coexistence. Ferrín points to the growing separateness of communities in the Iberian Peninsula resulting from Arabization, while PreJean shows that Christians and Muslims enjoyed parity in their economic position. |