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“Christians in the pre-Islamic era and the formation of Arab identity”
April 12, 20167:30 p.m.
CóRDOBA
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener)
7:30 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish
Casa Árabe invites you to the presentation of issue number 12 of the Awraq journal and to a conference titled: “Christians in the Pre-Islamic Era and the Formation of Arab Identity,” to be given by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, the professor who heads the Department of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Cordoba.
The history of pre-Islamic Arab Christianity, which can be traced back systematically since the third century A.D., made quite a comeback with a raised awareness that arose among northern Arab groups who had the intention of constructing an “Arab national reality” with which they could begin to build their own history. These Christian and Arab groups lived inside and outside of Arab territory where, despite an adverse linguistic situation, they could manage to keep their language, Arabic, and their culture, Christianity, alive.
Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
Juan Pedro is a professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Cordoba. He holds a PhD in Semitic Philology and is a specialist on Islamic, Christian and Jewish language and literature, Semitic linguistics, the editing of manuscripts, text criticism and literary criticism. He heads many foreign and domestic research projects and is a member of different scientific committees: Graeco-Arabica, Islam and Christian Relations, al-Qantara, Studia Historica, Journal of Medieval and Islamic History, and others, as well as being a co-director of the journal Collectanea Christiana Orientalia.
