HIST 694 Medieval Islam and Eastern Christianity
This course's subject is the shaping of Eastern Christianity and Islam as a result of their contacts with one another over the course of the medieval period. Focusing on Sunni Islam and Arabic and Syriac Christianity, the course surveys a series of key themes and textual traditions in religious and intellectual history: the Bible and the Quran, the Christian contexts of early Islam, the mutual influences of Islamic and Christian theology, Greco-Arabic philosophy and "Islamic humanism," and others. Course readings include secondary scholarship on our traditions of focus, as well as significant primary sources in translation, both Christian and Islamic.