Lecture: “Forging Intellectual Bonds: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Encounters in the Middle Ages”
Alan Verskin (University of Toronto)
MAIMONIDES AND AQUINAS
It is widely known that shared veneration of Greco-Roman texts led medieval Jews, Christians, and Muslims to read one another's books. What, however, do we know about the actual, flesh and blood, meetings of such scholars? How would intellectual respect translate into interpersonal relations? This lecture attempts to shed insight on that question by looking at several concrete examples of interfaith meetings between Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
A reception will follow in the Jackman Humanities Building. For further information, contact Institute Secretary Jonathan Clemens at pims.secretary@utoronto.ca. There will be seminars with invited scholars happening around the public lecture which will be recorded and posted.