Transfer and Religion

This collaboration brings into conversation scholars of Jewish and Islamic studies, theologians, and cultural historians to shed new light on the enduring intertwining between the Abrahamic faiths in the Mediterranean and Central Europe since the Middle Ages. Drawing on interdisciplinary expertise, the volume presents a series of case studies reflecting - in either a constructive or a disruptive way - the interactions between the dynamics of transfer and the role of religion in society. The long durée of the book's chronology helps outline the making of religious transfers in the medieval times and their transformations up to the twentieth-century challenges of nationalism and secularism. Considering a variety of distinct implications and reactions to religious transfer, the volume contributes to pinpointing past and present challenges towards religious conceptions, doctrines and narratives in the interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Auteur
Born 1978; received his PhD in Talmudic Studies from the Center for Jewish Studies Heidelberg; currently a research fellow in Judaic Studies at the University of Tübingen. Born 1983; received his PhD in Medieval and Humanistic Studies from the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Florence, now part of the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; currently a research fellow at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Born 1979; received his PhD in Islamic Studies from the University Aix-Marseille; currently Professor for Hadith Studies at the University of Tübingen.