Convivencia and Religious Language: Dialogue of Religions on the Iberian Peninsula

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Convivencia and Religious Language: Dialogue of Religions on the Iberian Peninsula

Veranstalter
Görge K. Hasselhoff / Knut Martin Stünkel, Bochum
Veranstaltungsort
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150, FNO 02/40-46
Ort
Bochum
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
04.06.2013 - 05.06.2013
Website
http://www.khk.ceres.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
Von
Görge Hasselhoff, Fak. für Theologie und Humanwissenschaften, TU Dortmund

The Iberian Peninsula of the Middle Ages is quite often described as an ideal place of religious encounters. Terms like "golden century" are sometimes employed to describe that time. Although descriptions like that are in more than one respect difficult they point to an important aspect. Time and place in focus made it possible that members of three major religions – Christians, Muslims, and Jews – met and exchanged knowledge and religious ideas. Translations of Arabic-written scientific and religious works into Hebrew or Latin were numerous, but also translations of Latin works into Hebrew or even into Arabic took place. These translations as well as personal encounters enabled religious thinkers to their own religious beliefs and to develop new religious insights.

Therefore, the Iberian Peninsula forms the ideal place to show how the contact between members of the three monotheistic religions had an impact on their respective religious language. In the workshop we want to analyse different models of that kind of forming of language in concrete contact situations.

Programm

4 June 2013

14:15-14:30 Welcome

14:30-15:30 Anna Akasoy (New York): Are We Speaking the Same Language? Translating Truths Across Intellectual Traditions in al-Andalus

15:45-16:45 Ayse Icoz (Birmingham), Islamic Terminology in the 11th Century Christian Writing: The Language of the Kitab al Majdal as an Example of Interreligious Exchange

17:15-18:15 Monica Colominas Aparicio (Amsterdam), Disputing about Purity in Late Medieval Iberia: Ṭuhr and Religious Language in Mudejar Polemics

18:30-19:30 Gerard Wiegers (Amsterdam), Christian Prophecies among the Muslim Minorities of Medieval and Early-Modern Christian Spain: Islamic Adaptations of Roquetaillede's 'vademecum in tribulatione' and Other Texts

5 June 2013

9:15-10:15 Nikolas Jaspert (Bochum): Interreligious contact at the Aragonese Court

10:30-11:30 Knut Martin Stünkel (Bochum): Ramon Llull and the Establishment of a Christian Religious Language

11:45-12:45 Ulli Roth (Freiburg), John of Segovia and Interreligious Communication

14:00-15:00 Piero Capelli (Venezia): From Iberia to Paris and Back: Anti-Talmudic Criticism from Petrus Alfonsi to Nicholas Donin and Pablo Christiani

15:15-16:15 Ursula Ragacs (Wien): Nachmanides' Vikuach and New Answers to Christian Missionaries

16:15-17:00 General Discussion (Chair: Görge Hasselhoff)

Kontakt

Görge Hasselhoff

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Universitätsstr. 150, FNO 02/39, 44780 Bochum

goerge.hasselhoff@rub.de

http://www.khk.ceres.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/