Code
3E003915
Duration
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2018
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- History
- Theology and religious studies
Keywords
historiography
Muslim-Christian relations
Eastern Christians
identity formation
memory-building
intercultural exchanges
Project description
This project aims at investigating the origins of Christian historiography in Arabic, by studying the earliest six preserved texts. These works deserve our attention because they both mirrored and impacted the identity-building of the communities that produced them,as well as their self-representation in the daily confrontation with each other and with the Muslims.