I. Friday, 25 October, 10.00–12.20 CET

10.00 am: General introduction (organisers)

Session 1: Expanding the Source Base
Chair: Alejandro Peláez Martín (Konstanz)

10.20 am: Simon Pierre (Paris), The Chronicle of Zuqnīn: A Regional Petition to Defend the Fiscal Status Quo for “Arabs” (Muslims) and “Syrians” (Christians) in the Jazīra? (c. 150–158/767–775)

10.40 am: Diana Grigoryan (Yerevan), Between Faith and Politics: Representation of Rulership in the Bagratuni Kingdom of Armenia (885–1045)

11.00 am: Pedro Alexandre Gonçalves (Lisbon), Mozarabism, Conversion and Social Mobility in Coimbra (Central Portugal) during the High Middle Ages: The Trajectory of Randulfo Soleimás and his Ancestors and Descendants (10th to 12th Centuries)

11.20 am: Nynke van Leeuwen (Groningen), A Mediterranean Republic of Letters: The Case of Nicolaus Clenardus (1494–1542)

11.40 am: Discussion of session 1

II. Thursday, 31 October, 10.00–12.15 CET

Session 2: Re-reading ‘Traditional’ Sources
Chair: James Wilson (Konstanz)

10.00 am: Introduction

10.15 am: Yazid Abdul Kader (Vienna), Muslims in Medieval Sicily. Examples of Incorrect Translations of Arabic Sources and Attributions of Motives in Historical Research and the Importance of an Islamic-legal Reading of Arabic sources.

10.35 am: Thomas Brosset (Lancaster), Unofficial Interactions between Christians and Muslims During Sieges in the Jazīra and Syria (1097–1192)

10.55 am: Julio César Cárdenas Arenas (Madrid), Christians (النصارى) in Ibn Taymīyah’s Legal Verdicts, Computational Linguistics of a Medieval Islamic Theological and Legal Corpus

11.15 am: Julia Samp (Aachen), Silent Bells and Howling Muslims. Auditory Perception and Interpretation of Christian-Muslim Relations in the Evagatorium of Felix Fabri (1437/8–1502)

11.35 am: Discussion of session 2

III. Friday, 8 November, 10.00–13.00 CET

Session 3: Comparison Across Source Bases, Regional Traditions, Chronological Frameworks
Chair: Eric Böhme (Konstanz)

10.00 am: Introduction

10.15 am: Marilena Polosa (Paris/Rome), The Relationship Between Christian and Muslim Communities in the Southern Red Sea, 6th–13th Centuries

10.35 am: Alexander Marx (Vienna), Martin of León (c.1130–1203): A Crusade Preacher between the Holy Land and the Iberian Peninsula

10.55 am: Marco Demichelis (Bologna), ‘Hic est status modernus’. The Ottoman Sultanate and the Played Influence on the Italian and French Political Thought in the “Cinquecento”

11.15 am: Anna Gutgarts (Haifa), Mediterranean Cityscapes in the 11th–12th Centuries and the Transition from Muslim to Christian Rule: Demographic Change, Municipal Mechanisms, and Urban Environment

11.35 am: Discussion of session 3

12.15 am: General conclusion