Workshop at the University of Heidelberg: "Latin & Arabic: Entangled Histories"

Workshop at the University of Heidelberg: "Latin & Arabic: Entangled Histories," September 28-29, 2016.

The conference forms part of a project of research that aims at understanding the entangled history of two major linguistic systems from a sociolinguistic as well as from a macro historical perspective.
Sofar, a synthetic overview dealing with the various facets as well with the most important primary sources does not existand –considering the scope of the field of research– can only be produced incommunication in numerous specialists. Up to this point, researchers pertaining from different fields of specialisation (history philosophy, and the sciences, Islamic studies, Arabic studies, Latin and Romance philology and literature, ancient, medieval and early modern history) have dedicated attention to various Latin-Arabic phenomena of entanglement without engaging in intensive exchange between each other. For this reason, the conference brings together experts who, from different disciplinary perspectives, engage with various facets of Latin-Arabic entanglement as they occurred in different times and regions.
In this way the conference will contribute to elucidating an entangled history of almost two millenia which –given the administrative, religious and cultural importance of Latin and Arabic in the period of investigation– is not only closely linked to, but also questions widely diffused definitions of ‘European’ and ‘Arabic-Islamic’ culture.

Katarzyna K. Starczewska, member of the CORPI project, participates in the workshop with her paper : “Beyond Religious Polemic: the Qurʾān as Textbook. A Case Study of a Latin Translation of the Qurʾān.”

(read the programme here)