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

Dome of the Rock

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:
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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: Church of the 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

• Usmah ibn Munqidh
  
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III. Scholarship, the Arts and Cultural Exchange

A. spread and adaptation

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

B. Aesthetics

• Carpets
• Umayyad Spain

C. Cultural Interactions: the good and the bad