Interreligious Polemics in Medieval Iberia II - ADI400136

• Title: Interreligious Polemics in Medieval Iberia I
• Guaranteed by: Department of Middle Eastern Studies (21-KBV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2016
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Daniel Boušek, Ph.D.; PhDr. Milan Žonca, Ph.D.

Literature

Suggested reading

Lassner, Jacob, Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam. Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava, Intertwined Worlds. Medieval Islam and Bible Criticism, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Griffith, Sidney H., The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Tolan, John V., Saracens. Islam in the Medieval European Imagination, New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Jacobs, Martin, "Interreligious Polemics in Medieval Spain. Biblical Interpretation between Ibn Ḥazm, Shlomoh ibn Adret, and Shimʿon ben Ṣemaḥ Duran", in: Joseph Dan (ed.), Gershom Scholem (1897-1982). In Memoriam (Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, 21), Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 35-57.

Baer, Yizhak, A History of the Jews in Christian Spain, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1961)

Nirenberg, David, Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today (University of Chicago Press, 2014)

Nirenberg, David, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1996)

Ray, Jonathan, The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).

Ray, Jonathan, ed., The Jew in Medieval Iberia: 1100-1500 (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2012)

Pick, Lucy K., Conflict and Coexistence: Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Medieval Spain (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004)

Szpiech, Ryan, Conversion and Narrative: Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)

Last update: Žonca Milan, PhDr., Ph.D. (02.10.2015)

Requirements to the exam

Attendance - 12% (each unannounced absence = -1 point)
Comprehensive Final Test - 88%: T/F, multiple choice, essay questions
Grades: A: 100-87, B: 86-73, C: 72-60, F: 59-0

Last update: Žonca Milan, PhDr., Ph.D. (02.10.2015)

Syllabus

1. Historical Overview (7.10., 14.10.)
1. General History of Medieval Iberia (Visigothic Spain, Muslim Conquest, "The Golden Age", Christian Reconquista and Expansion, Unification)
2. Jews and Muslims in Medieval Iberia
2. Authors and Texts
1. Jewish-Christian Polemics (21.10., 4.11., 11.11.)
1. Jacob ben Reuben, Josef Kimhi, Petrus Alfonsi, Nahmanides, Barcelona Disputation, Pablo Christiani, Raymund Martini
2. Hasdai Crescas, Isaac Pulgar, Profiat Duran, Shem Tov ibn Shaprut
3. Abner of Burgos, Moses of Tordesillas, Tortosa Disputation, Joshua Lorki, Joseph Albo
2. Muslim anti-Christian/anti-Jewish Polemic, Christian anti-Muslim Polemic (18.11., 25.11., 2.12.)
1. Al-Kindi, Qissat mujadalat al-uskuf, Abd al-Haqq al-Islami, "al-Raqilli"
2. Ibn Hazm, Samawal al-Maghribi, Shelomo ibn Adret
3. Shimon Zemah Duran
3. Comparative Perspectives (9.12., 16.12., 6.1.)
1. Conversion
2. Violence
3. Sexual Contacts

Last update: Žonca Milan, PhDr., Ph.D. (04.10.2015)