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IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1719: Religious Entanglements and Co-Production: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Thursday 6 July 2023, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Research Project 'Interactive Histories, Co-Produced Communities: Judaism, Christianity & Islam'
Organisers:Katharina Heyden, Institut für Historische Theologie, Universität Bern
Rahel Schär, Institut für Historische Theologie, Universität Bern
Moderator/Chair:Katharina Heyden, Institut für Historische Theologie, Universität Bern
Paper 1719-aCo-Production of Healing Pilgrimage Sites in the Eastern Mediterranean, 5th-7th Centuries
(Language: English)
Maureen Attali, Institut für Historische Theologie, Universität Bern
Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Byzantine Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Pagan Religions
Paper 1719-bReligious Co-Production in the Legends of the 60 Martyrs of Gaza and the Martyrdom of Bishop Sophronius of Jerusalem
(Language: English)
Rahel Schär, Institut für Historische Theologie, Universität Bern
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Islamic and Arabic Studies
Paper 1719-cStruggle and Endurance in the Qur'an in the Context of Late Antique Piety
(Language: English)
Paul Neuenkirchen, Institut für Historische Theologie, Universität Bern
Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Monasticism, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching
Paper 1719-dExamining Porous Boundaries between Jewish and Muslim Litigants in Fāṭimid Courts: A Comparative Study of Jewish and Islamic Debt Acknowledgements (Iqrārs) in the Cairo Genizah
(Language: English)
Sarah Islam, Institut für Historische Theologie, Universität Bern
Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract

Muslims, Jews and Christians have lived with and thought about each other since their entangled beginnings and throughout the centuries. This session examines the ways in which adherents of these three religious communities have interacted in real life and in thought, and how the religious traditions have taken shape at different places and times.