Editorial | Debate. Was There a Medieval »State«? | Handwritten Arithmetic Treatises in German (1400-1550). A First Assessment of the Sources Based on the Exemplary Corpus Held by the Austrian National Library | Peacemaking after Defeat in England in 991 and Northern Song China in 1005  | Sleepy Animals: Barhebraeus (1226-1286 CE) on Sleeping and Dreaming among Animals  | The Ideas of Pseudo-Empedocles in Baghdad Mysticism of the Ninth-Tenth Centuries CE: Al-Ḥallāj’s Cosmology  | John Zacharias Aktouarios (c. 1275-1330) and His Treatise On Psychic Pneuma: Critical Edition of the Greek Text with German Translation and Medical-Historical Commentary Progress and Current Results of the Research Project  | Communities of Knowledge: Interreligious Networks of Scholars in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa’s History of the Physicians (Project Report)  | Off the Record: On Studying Lost Arabic Books and their Networks  | Labeling Religious Affiliation in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa’s History of Physicians: A Quest

“medieval worlds” provides a forum for comparative, interdisciplinary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. Its aim is to overcome disciplinary boundaries, regional limits and national research traditions in Medieval Studies, to open up new spaces for discussion, and to help developing global perspectives. We focus on the period from c. 400 to 1500 CE but do not stick to rigid periodization. medieval worlds is open to submissions of broadly comparative studies and matters of global interest, whether in single articles, companion papers, smaller clusters, or special issues on a subject of global/comparative history. We particularly invite studies of wide-ranging connectivity or comparison between different world regions. Apart from research articles, medieval worlds publishes ongoing debates and project and conference reports on comparative medieval research.



In this volume we introduce the debate as a new format in Medieval Worlds. Scholars are invited to contribute to current topics of interest either with an essay or with comments to this essay. The series is opened with a lively discussion of the concept of “state” in medieval studies and offers contributions by B. D. Shaw, N. Di Cosmo, S. Gasparri and C. La Rocca, H.-W. Goetz, J. Haldon, Y. Stouraitis and R. Le Jan.

M. Wiesinger, C. Jackel and N. Orban discuss first results of their ground-breaking ERC project Arithmetic, in which German mathematical treatises from the Late Middle Ages are studied. The second stand-alone contribution by A. Wareham compares English and Chinese sources with regard to peacemaking around the turn of the 11th century. The second instalment of our thematic section on Knowledge Collaboration among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims in the Abbasid Near East (guest editor N.P. Gibson) presents further studies on textual evidence of “other” (religions) as well as insights into possible uses of digital tools in this context.

 

State Debate and Knowledge Collaboration among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims in the Abbasid Near East, II. Guest Editor: Nathan P. Gibson

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Editorial | »The sun was darkened for seventeen days« (AD 797). An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Celestial Phenomena between Byzantium, Charlemagne, and a Volcanic Eruption | Knowledge Collaboration among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims in the Abbasid Near East: Introduction | Why Muslims Shouldn’t Practice Medicine: The Autobiographical Account of a Frustrated Physician, Ibrāhīm al-Qalyūbī (fl. second half of seventh/ thirteenth century)  | ʿAlī and the »Sons of Ādhurbādh«: Zoroastrian Priestly Authority in the Early Islamic Era | On Attributes and Hypostases: Muslim Theology in the Interreligious Writings of Patriarch Timothy I (d. 823) | For the Care of Body and Soul: A CPA Bible and an Arab-Islamic Medical Text in a Tenth-Century Palimpsest Fragment | Interreligious Scholarly Collaboration in Ibn al-Nadīm’s Fihrist  | Indexing a Shared Knowledge Culture from Many Perspectives: The Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East (HIMME) as a Tool for Researching Diversity | Embedding Conquest: Naturalizing Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (Project Report)

In the stand-alone article of volume 17, J. Preiser-Kapeller and E. Kislinger combine natural scientific data and historical research on atmospheric and climatic phenomena of the 8th and 9th centuries to provide new interpretations for the events between the blinding of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI (797 AD) and the coronation of the Frankish king Charlemagne in 800 AD. The thematic section delves into the intricacies of medieval knowledge cooperation: Five contributions investigate possible evidence for the exchange of knowledge between figures belonging to different religious traditions in the Near East/Middle East during the reign of the Abbasid caliphate from 7th to the 13th century CE: Muslim-Zoroastrian (K. Dang), Christian-Muslim (J. Jakob, M. Pimpinelli), Muslim-Jewish (I. Sánchez) and Muslim-Christian-Jewish (R. Gareil). An introductory contextualisation by guest editor N. Gibson and two reports about projects on knowledge collaboration in the medieval Middle East (T. Carlson and J. Mutter; C. Palombo) complement this section.

 

Knowledge Collaboration among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims in the Abbasid Near East

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