Dr Graham Barrett (https://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/gbarrett), Senior Lecturer in Late Antiquity and Joint Programme Leader for Classical Studies in the School of History and Heritage, has just published The Bloomsbury Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations, 600-1500 in collaboration with an international team of scholars led by David Thomas (Professor Emeritus of Christianity and Islam at the University of Birmingham).

The book is the first of its kind: it assembles, introduces, and translates eighty extracts from important works by Christians and Muslims in all major languages of the Mediterranean world, and aims to reflect their interactions with, attitudes to, and knowledge of one another, from the foundation of Islam in the seventh century down to the end of the Middle Ages.

It provides a foundation for the study of interfaith relations at all levels from the interested public to the professional scholar, and it will be complemented by an expanded three-volume collection of primary sources on Christians and Muslims from 600 to 1914 to be published by Bloomsbury Academic next year.

For further information, please see the publisher’s webpage for the Reader (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbury-reader-in-christianmuslim-relations-6001500-9781350214095/) and the ‘Inter-Faith Exchanges and Religion’ strand of the Medieval Studies Research Group at Lincoln (https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/hh/research/medievalstudiesresearchgroup/inter-faithexchangesandreligion/).

Story submitted by Graham Barrett
gbarrett@lincoln.ac.uk