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DESCRIPTION:As Princeton historian Jack Tannous has pointed out\, in the ea
 rly medieval period\, far more Christians lived in the Muslim Caliphate\, 
 which embraced the lands from the Pyrenees through North Africa and Egypt 
 to Syria\, Palestine\, Iraq\, and Iran\, than under Byzantine or Latin rul
 e. It did not take long before this vast Christian population became speak
 ers of Arabic and participants in the dynamic culture of the Islamic world
  while remaining Christians for generations. This session will focus espec
 ially on how such Christians adopted some aspects of Muslim culture even a
 s they rejected others as strategies for sectarian survival. Professor Bur
 man will present a broad area of his expertise. This class is aimed especi
 ally at students and faculty of the University of Dallas\; locals of Medit
 erranean and Middle Eastern heritage are also especially warmly invited.\n
 \nLocation: Gorman Lecture Center\, Room C\n\nSpeaker: \n\nProfessor Thoma
 s E. Burman\, Professor of History\, Notre Dame\n\nProfessor Burman's rese
 arch and teaching focus on the intellectual and cultural interactions betw
 een Jews\, Christians\, and Muslims in the medieval Mediterranean world. H
 e is author of Religious Polemic and the Intellectual History of the Mozar
 abs\, c. 1050-1200 and Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom\, 1140-1560
 \, and co-author with Brian Catlos and Mark Meyerson of The Sea in the Mid
 dle: The Mediterranean World\, 650-1650. Currently he is completing a book
  entitled Beyond the Mediterranean: The Intellectual Venture of Ramon Mart
 í (fl. 1250-84).\n\n \n\n\n\nAn image of a page from the modern printed e
 dition of Yahya ibn 'Adi's tenth-century Treatise on God's Unity\, a very 
 important Arab-Christian theological work.\n\n \n\nSponsored by UDallas Ph
 i Beta Kappa\, as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar program.\n\n
 Phi Beta Kappa was founded in 1776 and is a prestigious academic honor soc
 iety that champions the liberal arts.\n\nSince 1956\, the Phi Beta Kappa V
 isiting Scholar Program has offered undergraduates the opportunity to spen
 d time with some of America’s most distinguished scholars. The program
 ’s main purpose is to contribute to the intellectual life of the campus 
 by making possible an exchange of ideas between the Visiting Scholars and 
 the resident faculty and students.\n\n \n\nThe University of Dallas’s PB
 K chapter will welcome PBK Visiting Scholar Thomas E. Burman to campus on 
 Sept. 17 and 18. Professor Burman is a noted historian and is the Michael 
 P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He
  has served as Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University
  of Tennessee\, Knoxville (2009 to 2016) and the Director of the Medieval 
 Institute at Notre Dame (2016 to 2025). His research has been supported by
  fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations and the Natio
 nal Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of numerous books and a
 rticles\, including Reading the Qur’ān in Latin Christendom\, 1140-1560
  (2007) and\, with Brian Catlos and Mark Meyerson\, The Sea in the Middle:
  The Mediterranean World (650-1650) (2022).
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LOCATION:\, Gorman Lecture Center\, Room C
SUMMARY:Medieval Arab Christianity: The Most Understudied Topic in Christia
 n History
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 -the-most-understudied-topic-in-christian-history
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