MI Working Group (Religion & Pluralism in the Medieval Mediterranean): Manolis Ulbricht (MI, Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, University of Notre Dame), "The Byzantine Qur'an"
Please join us for the third meeting this term of the Religion & Pluralism in the Medieval Mediterranean working group. Dr. Manolis Ulbricht (Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, MI, University of Notre Dame) will present a work-in-progress and give a talk titled "The Byzantine Qu'ran". To receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please contact Francisco Cintrón.
Manolis Ulbricht is the Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow in the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame. During his time at the Medieval Institute (Fall 2023–Spring 2025), Dr. Ulbricht will study Qur’anic and anti-Islamic texts from the Byzantine world. His project, "Documenta Coranica Byzantina (DoCoByz). Byzantino-Islamica in the Age of Digital Humanities," will trace the exact transmission lines of the Greek translation(s) of the Qur’an (Testimonia Coranica Christiana) in order to document their reception and (re)use within Greek-Orthodox polemics
(Episteme Islamica Orthodoxa), and to distill diachronically the common topoi and stereotypes of anti-Islamic argumentations and synchronously comparing them with the pre-13th century Latin polemics (Traditio Islamica
Medievalis). The project is based on a genuine interdisciplinary approach: it combines Greek, Latin, and Arabic philologies with historical, paleographical and theological work as well as methods of digital humanities.