Charting Image and Self Image of Islam in Europe
Scientific Coordinators: Youssef El Alaoui and Luis Bernabé
Venue and Date: Collège d’Espagne, Paris (France) – May 10, 2022
Meeting call:
The image of Islam in Europe was usually studied from a Christian-Western point of view, and without a longue durée approach. The aim of this workshop is to create a methodological framework for studying this topic, comparing different case studies through time and space, from the Middle Ages to the end of the Early Modern period, from Iberia to de Balkans, from the Christian and non-Christian point of view. We would like to map this game of perceptions between image and self-image, between identity and representation, breaking with the stereotypes and preestablished ideas and proposing new paths of analysis.
Scholars who have been working on these topics and have material related to them are invited to submit a proposal for consideration.
The themes may include, but are not limited to:
– The Muslim as a literary and historical character.
– Race, religion, and cultural stereotypes. Methodological considerations.
– Images and self-images of Islam at odds.
– Key moments and key places of the construction of the image of Islam in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
