November 2020
Webinar on "Forms of Religious Recognition in Early Modern Iberia and the Ottoman Empire" Timings: Abu Dhabi 12:00 | Melbourne 19:00 | Perth 16:00 | Berlin 9:00 | New York 3:00 The second webinar will be held on November 30, 2020 on Zoom with : Mercedes García-Arenal (ILC-CSIC, Madrid) Tijana Krstić (Central [...]
John Tolan (Université de Nantes, France) gave a lecture on the 2nd of November 2020 on ‘Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today’ in the programme Current Issues in Religious Studies and Western Esotericism. Professor Tolan spoke about ‘Faces of Muhammad: [...]
FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP Tribune publiée dans Le Monde le 10 octobre 2020 Plutôt que de proférer des qualificatifs injurieux dans le but de disqualifier d’éventuels adversaires, l’historien John Tolan invite à renouer avec le débat contradictoire. Lire l'article Copyright photo : Un buste du philosophe et écrivain Voltaire, [...]
The Nantes Institute for Advanced Study has the honour to announce the nomination of a new associate fellow: John Tolan John Tolan works on the history of religious and cultural relations between the Arab and Latin worlds in the Middle Ages and on the history of religious interaction and conflict [...]
October 2020
Mellon Minorities in the Middle East series Friday, October 9, 2020 10:00 AM (Pacific Time) Live Meeting via Zoom. RSVP required to obtain access details. In textbook versions of Islamic history, the pact of Umar still looms large. According to Muslim tradition, caliph ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb imposed on the Christians [...]
