Themes:

• Christian and Islamic: Clash of Civilizations?
• Religious Warfare: Oxymoron?
• The Arts and Cultural Exchange

I. Christian and Islamic Zones

A. maps: cores and peripheries

1. spread of Christianity
2. spread of Islam

B. cultural syntheses

1. (Judeo-)Christian-x-x
2. Arab-Islamic-x

C. religion and politics

• Islamic succession: caliph, imam
• Byzantine emperor and patriarch: caesaropapism
• European kingS and pope in Rome:

D. Clash of Civilizations?

• Samuel Huntington
• Judeo-Christian-Islamic monotheism
• revelation, divine immanence, universal truths
• dar-al-Islam versus umma
• City of Man versus City of God
• Conquest versus Conversion
• shared zones of contact:

II. Crusade and Jihad

A. Warrior Cultures

• Worldwide:
• Bigger is Better:
• What are you willing to kill for or die for?

B. Religious Warfare: Oxymoron?

• cultural
• religious
• Codes of conduct
• Muslim toleration: Jihad; Dhimma; Pact of Umar, Battle of Yarmuk
• Christian knighthood: Knights Templars; Rule
• Japanese Bushido, Red Cross, Geneva Convention

Iberia: Reconquista

C. Holy Land: to whom does it belong?

• Mesopotamia “melting pot”
• Holy Jerusalem (UNF core abroad program, Paul Halsall)
  • the wailing wall
  • Dome of the Rock
  • Wailing Wall and Dome of the Rock
  • Church of Holy Sepulchre
• Turkish invasion
• Pope Urban II, call to 1st Crusade, 1095
• European Jews Solomon bar-Samson
• Fourth Crusade: Geoffrey de Villehardouin
• Kingdom of Jerusalem
• Fall of Jerusalem to Saladin, 1187

D. Mutual (mis)perceptions

III. The Arts and Cultural Exchange

A. spread and adaptation

• Arab Muslim:
• European Christian:
• theological debates:
• Christian-Muslim debate

B. Artistic Styles

• Architecture
• European Gothic Cathedrals:
• flying buttresses: Notre Dame, Paris
• stained glass: Sainte Chapelle
• sculpture: Bourges*; Rheims *; cathedral *
• technology: Amiens Cathedral Tour
• Muslim mosques and minarets
  • Alkhazina
  • Ottoman Topkapi Palace
• Manuscript Art:
  • Illuminated Manuscripts: Louis IX*; Peterborough Chronicle*
  • Miniature painting

C. Cultural Interactions: the good and the bad