Convened by Maryann M. Shenoda, Mellon Visiting Professor
Sunday, October 2 – Monday, October 3, 2011 Please see schedule below for times Royce 314 Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion
This two-day international colloquium will bring together several important scholars who work on non-Muslim (dhimmi) communities in medieval Egypt so as to finally have a conversation about the different dhimmi experiences. This colloquium will provide a forum for scholars of dhimmi communities in Fatimid Egypt (969-1171CE) to discuss the possible overlap, intersection, and differences between the Jewish and Christian experience. More importantly, the colloquium will illuminate the heterogeneity of the dhimmi category which has been typically used as an umbrella term to describe all non-Muslim communities living under Islamic rule.
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