HIB0403 Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Vít Machálek, Th.D., Dr. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Hana Ambrožová
Timetable
Wed 18:20–19:55 zrusena A22 stara
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 60 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/60, only registered: 0/60, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/60
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Course objectives
At the end of this course student should be abble to: interpret medieval texts connected with relationships between Christians and Muslims; understand religious, cultural, political and military dimensions of these relationships; explain the place of Islam in the history of Medieval Europe and its influence on the formation of Western culture; use acquired knowledge for better understanding of relationships between "Christian" and "Islamic" world in general.
Syllabus
  • Christianity and Islam.
  • Attitudes to Christians in the Quran and hadiths.
  • Arab raids in Christian world.
  • Eastern Christians and the Islamic Caliphate.
  • Christians and Muslims in Andalusia.
  • Christians and Muslims in Sicily.
  • Important scholars of the Muslim medieval world.
  • How Muslim scholarship and knowledge found their ways to the West.
  • Attitudes of Western medieval Christians to Islam.
  • The Crusades.
  • The Reconquiste.
  • Ottoman raids and the end of Byzantium.
Literature
  • VERNET, Juan. Arabské Španělsko a evropská vzdělanost. Translated by Jiří Kasl. 1. vyd. Brno: L. Marek, 2007, 392 s. ISBN 9788086263984. info
  • WHEATCROFT, Andrew. Nevěřící : střety křesťanstva s islámem v letech 638-2002. Translated by Miroslav Košťál. 1. vyd. v českém jazyce. Praha: BB/art, 2006, 470 s. ISBN 8073418320. info
  • CARDINI, Franco. Evropa a islám. Translated by Jiřina Němcová. Vydání první. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2004, 295 stran. ISBN 8071066400. info
  • FLETCHER, R. A. Kříž a půlměsíc : křesťanství a islám od Muhammada po reformaci. Translated by Pavel Vereš. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2004, 140 s. ISBN 8020411453. info
  • TATE, Georges. Křižáci v Orientu. [Praha]: Slovart, 1996, 192 s. ISBN 80-85871-15-7. info
Teaching methods
lectures, discussion, reading
Assessment methods
Credit is received by passing a written test concerning the lectured topics. To gain credit, a student must also write an essay about relationships between Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages.
Language of instruction
Czech
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