Photo du flyer composée par Caterina Bori : à gauche, la couverture de la première édition de la Risāla al-qubruṣiyya d’Ibn Taymiyya (1379 AH), et à droite, un feuillet du manuscrit du même texte conservé à la Staatsbibliothek de Berlin, MS Landberg 216.
Seminar Plural approaches to Islamic Studies with Caterina BORI
4-5 February 2025: Caterina Bori (Prof. Islamic Studies, Dep. of History and Culture, University of Bologna). Organization: Olga L. Lizzini
“On the historical usefulness of ‘Muslim-Christian Relations’ as an analytical category: case studies from Medieval Muslim history (1200-1400 DC)”.
Through the examination of some case studies, this series of seminars will challenge the category of 'Muslim-Christian relations' as an ever-useful analytical paradigm for understanding the diversity and multiplicity of interactions between historical actors of different religious affiliations in the Islamic Mediterranean between the 13th and 15th centuries. The approach will be interactive. Students are expected to engage with the course-materials, work in groups and take part in discussions. Intellectual generosity will be highly valued. A syllabus will be distributed at due time.
Caterina BORI is a historian of the Islamic, Arabic-speaking Middle East in its Medieval period (1000-1500 AD), particularly of the Mamluk domains and its religious culture. She devoted much of her research to the study of the controversial Ḥanbalī scholar, Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Taymiyya and his student Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. Her research explores questions about their memory, the circle of people who followed them, and the early modern reception of their work and thought. Recently, she has developed an interest in manuscript culture, which she has combined with her Taymiyyan studies with the aim of applying it to other fields of investigation too.
The seminar will be held at MMSH in the PAF room on February 4th (3:30 pm - 6:30 pm) and February 5th: 9:30 AM - 12:30 pm and then from 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm.
Le séminaire aura lieu à la MMSH dans la salle PAF le 4 février (15h30-18h30) et le 5 février : 9h30-12h30 puis de 14h30 à 16h30.
amU: Master in Islamic Studies and Intellectual Tradition in Islam / Master en Études islamologiques et tradition intellectuelle en islam amU/IFI/Amidex /Iremam/CNRS.
The seminar, kindly financed by the Institut Français d'islamologie (IFI), is part of the Master programme in Islamic Studies (project TAMAM, dir. Olga L. Lizzini). Le séminaire, financé par l'Institut Français d'islamologie (IFI), fait partie du programme de Master en études islamologiques (projet TAMAM, dir. Olga L. Lizzini).