Cultural influences and borrowing in contexts of religious hostility between Christians and Muslims

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Cultural influences and borrowing in contexts of religious hostility between Christians and Muslims

Organizer
Nora Berend, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, UK; Käte Homburger Kolleg "Dynamics in the History of Religion" Ruhr University Bochum
Venue
FNO 02/ 40-46, Ruhr University Bochum
Location
Bochum
Country
Germany
From - Until
25.02.2014 - 26.02.2014
Deadline
25.02.2014
Website
http://www.khk.ceres.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/de/
By
Annette Kehnel, Historisches Institut, Uni Mannheim

Medieval and early modern population groups adhering to different belief-systems interacted in seemingly self-contradictory ways. Hostility and warfare justified by references to religion, as well as influences and cultural borrowing characterized their coexistence. This workshop will bring together these two themes in order to investigate more closely how groups could influence each other, when these groups were envisaged in terms of religious hostility, and how mechanisms of cultural borrowing were able to function during periods of explicitly formulated religious warfare. It is easier to conceptualize religious war on the one hand and cultural influences and borrowing on the other as two temporally or geographically distinct spheres of activity. Yet when Christians and Muslims were fighting wars that were defined on both sides as fighting for the true faith, at the same time they exerted influence on and borrowed from each other. This is especially true of areas where warfare continued for very long periods, between populations that also lived in close proximity to each other. How and why was such borrowing possible between enemies? What were the channels of cultural influence and borrowing? What new forms of interaction emerged as a result? The papers will focus on zones where interreligious warfare continued for centuries: the Iberian peninsula, crusader territories in the East, and areas of Ottoman expansion. Analyzing examples from the terminology of polemics to architecture, from food to everyday objects, the workshop will explore the seemingly self-contradictory stance of openness to cultural influences from one’s enemies.

Programm

25 February
Morning session
from 9am coffee

9.15 Welcome: Nora Berend (University of Cambridge/KHK Bochum)
Chair: Alex Cuffel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

9.30-10.15 Ulisse Cecini (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), When Christian polemic "borrows" from Islamic ḥadīths. The use of the word "alkaufeit" in Albarus of Cordoba's Indiculus luminosus (9th c.)

10.15-11 Judith Bronstein (University of Haifa and Oranim College), Social and cultural identity on the menu in the kingdom of Jerusalem

11-11.30 coffee break

11.30-12.15 Alexandru Simon (Romanian Academy’s Center for Transylvanian Studies, Cluj-Napoca) Misfits and Saviours in the East: Holy and Unholy Means and Men of War after the Fall of Constantinople

12.15-13 Antonín Kalous (Palacký University, Olomouc) Borrowing Djem, King Matthias explains his strategy to papal legates

13-14.30 lunch

Afternoon session

Chair: Nora Berend (University of Cambridge/KHK Bochum)

14.30-15.15 Reinhold Glei (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Preparing the Crusade: Juan de Torquemada's polemics against Islam

15.15-16 Adam Knobler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) The Medici and the Druze: a curious anti-Ottoman alliance

16-16.30 coffee break

16.30-17.15 József Laszlovszky (Central European University Budapest) Social interactions and material culture during the Ottoman period in Early Modern Hungary (16-17th centuries)

17.15-18 Markus Koller (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Current developments in the historiography of Ottoman-"European" relations, followed by debate

26 February

Chair: Alex Cuffel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

9.30-10.15 Stéphane Boissellier (Université de Poitiers), L’absorption silencieuse des indigènes andalous et de leur culture dans le Portugal de la Reconquête

10.15-11 Ana Echevarría (UNED, Madrid), New mosques in borrowed Christian houses: negotiation of space in the context of Muslim subject populations

11-11.30 coffee break

11.30-12.15 Simon Barton (University of Exeter), Iberia Entwined: Christians, Muslims and the Politics of Sex in the Middle Ages

12.15-13 Amy Remensnyder (Brown University), Creating Islands of Interfaith Trust in a Sea at War

13-14.30 lunch

Contact (announcement)

Nora Berend

Käte Homburger Kolleg "Dynamics in the History of Religion" Ruhr University Bochum

nb213@cam.ak.uk

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