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Postgraduate course on Kosher and Halal
From October 10, 2012 until November 23, 2012
Casa Árabe and the Sefarad-Israel Centre in collaboration with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Centre for Human and Social Science (CCHS) offered the postgraduate course: Kašer y ḥalāl: lo lícito y lo ilícito en el judaísmo y el islam [Kosher and Halal: what is licit and illicit in Judaism and Islam] which took place from November 19th to 23rd.
Monday November 19th at 15:00 the course was officially inaugurated. Eduardo López Busquets, director general of Casa Árabe; Florentino Portero Rodríguez, director of the Sefarad-Israel Centre; and José Antonio Berenguer, director of the Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East at the CSIC participated in this opening ceremony. After this official opening event, the lectures began at the headquarters of Casa Árabe on November 19th and 20th. Then, they were hosted at the Sefarad-Israel Centre from November 21st to 23rd. All the lectures began at 15:00 and by the end of the week the CSIC gave to the participants a certificate of attendance.
The complex religious and cultural norms and values of both Islam and Judaism govern the daily lives of Jews and Muslims, and therefore, they also affect the societies where they live. These codes of conduct do not only determine many aspects of the daily lives of these communities, but also the perception that other religions and cultures have of them.
This course tried to show the most important Islamic and Jewish rituals related to life cycle, nutrition, hygiene and festivities, which have been the target of prejudices, lack of understanding and rejection all throughout history.
The course sought to be an introduction to get to know Jewish and Muslim rituals applied to the ways of life and the religious experience of both ancient and today’s societies.
The complex religious and cultural norms and values of both Islam and Judaism govern the daily lives of Jews and Muslims, and therefore, they also affect the societies where they live. These codes of conduct do not only determine many aspects of the daily lives of these communities, but also the perception that other religions and cultures have of them.
This course tried to show the most important Islamic and Jewish rituals related to life cycle, nutrition, hygiene and festivities, which have been the target of prejudices, lack of understanding and rejection all throughout history.
The course sought to be an introduction to get to know Jewish and Muslim rituals applied to the ways of life and the religious experience of both ancient and today’s societies.
