14267 Practice seminar

SoSe 19: (Ü) Books and their Jewish, Christian and Muslim Readers

Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt

Comments

The course will combine two, already intrinsically connected, fields of research: intellectual history and the history of the book. Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities in the Near East from medieval to early-modern times were exceedingly bookish and much of what the intellectual historian of this region knows comes from the books and the documents that these communities left behind. Taking a comparative approach, the aim of this course is survey how particular bodies of knowledge turned into texts in books (often within an oral context), how these texts formed a hierarchy (seemingly the Hebrew/Christian Bible and Quran at the center), and how a set of textual practices (recitation, commentaries, translations) emerged. We will try to also understand how these books were produced in a very concrete material way (writing materials, different forms of books), how they were stored (libraries) and, eventually, how they were discarded (Genizahs) when not used any longer. close

13 Class schedule

Regular appointments

Thu, 2019-04-11 16:30 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt

Thu, 2019-04-18 16:30 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt

Thu, 2019-04-25 16:30 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt

Thu, 2019-05-02 16:30 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt

Thu, 2019-05-09 16:30 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt

Thu, 2019-05-16 16:30 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt

Thu, 2019-05-23 16:30 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt

Thu, 2019-06-06 16:30 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt

Thu, 2019-06-13 16:30 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt

Thu, 2019-06-20 16:30 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt

Thu, 2019-06-27 16:30 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt

Thu, 2019-07-04 16:30 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt

Thu, 2019-07-11 16:30 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt

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