Jews, Christians, and Muslims: Religion and Belonging in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Working event schedule (to be finalized): 

To access pre-circulated readings, please email mest@indiana.edu OR use this link.

Friday, January 25 (Global Studies 3067)  

2:00 - 3:30pm 

Moderator: John Walbridge

• Scott Johnson (University of Oklahoma): “Syriac, Christian Origins, and Romanization”
• Abby Kulisz (Religious Studies, IU): “Textual Meetings, Textual Feelings: Rewriting the ‘People of the Book’ in Late Ancient Dispute Texts”

 3:30pm — Coffee Break

 3:45 - 5:15pm 

Moderator: Deborah Deliyannis

• Maia Kotrosits (Denison University): “When Authenticity Goes Deep: Anatomizing Cultural Purity in the Proto-gospel of James”
• Asma Afsaruddin (NELC, IU): “Jihad and Religious Minorities in the Siyar Literature: The Diachronic View”

Saturday, January 26 (CAHI House)

9:00 – 10:30am

Moderator: Jason Mokhtarian

• Sara Ronis (St. Mary's University): “The Magical Arab and the Wandering Jew in Sasanian Babylonia”
• Nicolò Sassi (Religious Studies, IU): “The Textual Ways of Religious Promiscuity”

10:30-10:45am — Coffee Break

10:45-12:15pm

Moderator: Jeremy Schott

• Kevin Jaques (Religious Studies, IU): “Divine Images, ‘Polytheism,’ and the Dīn of Ibrāhīm: Did Some Early Muslims Continue to Venerate Divine Images into the 2^nd Islamic Century?”
• Sarah Ifft Decker (Jewish Studies, IU): “Acculturation and Its Discontents: Jewish Family Law and Christian Legal Culture in Medieval Catalonia, 1250-1350”

12:15pm — Lunch provided for all attendees; RSVP to mest@indiana.edu