Walter POHL – Andre GINGRICH (Eds.) - Nathan P. Gibson (Guest Ed.)


medieval worlds • no. 18 • 2023




ISSN 2412-3196
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"medieval worlds" provides a forum for comparative, interdisciplinary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. Its aim is to overcome disciplinary boundaries, regional limits and national research traditions in Medieval Studies, to open up new spaces for discussion, and to help developing global perspectives. We focus on the period from c. 400 to 1500 CE but do not stick to rigid periodization.
medieval worlds is open to submissions of broadly comparative studies and matters of global interest, whether in single articles, companion papers, smaller clusters, or special issues on a subject of global/comparative history. We particularly invite studies of wide-ranging connectivity or comparison between different world regions.

Apart from research articles, medieval worlds publishes ongoing debates and project and conference reports on comparative medieval research.


In this volume we introduce the debate as a new format in Medieval Worlds. Scholars are invited to contribute to current topics of interest either with an essay or with comments to this essay. The series is opened with a lively discussion of the concept of “state” in medieval studies and offers contributions by B. D. Shaw, N. Di Cosmo, S. Gasparri and C. La Rocca, H.-W. Goetz, J. Haldon, Y. Stouraitis and R. Le Jan. M. Wiesinger, C. Jackel and N. Orban discuss first results of their ground-breaking ERC project Arithmetic, in which German mathematical treatises from the Late Middle Ages are studied. The second stand-alone contribution by A. Wareham compares English and Chinese sources with regard to peacemaking around the turn of the 11th century. The second instalment of our thematic section on Knowledge Collaboration among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims in the Abbasid Near East (guest editor N.P. Gibson) presents further studies on textual evidence of “other” (religions) as well as insights into possible uses of digital tools in this context.

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Walter POHL – Andre GINGRICH (Eds.) - Nathan P. Gibson (Guest Ed.)


medieval worlds • no. 18 • 2023




ISSN 2412-3196
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ISBN 978-3-7001-9444-6
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2023  License: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Abstract:
The project »Communities of Knowledge: Interreligious Networks of Scholars in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa’s History of the Physicians« aimed to examine the social encounters of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish scholars in the Abbasid Near East, in the period 132-656 AH/750-1258 CE. The Arabic biographical dictionary of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa (b. after 590/1194, d. 668/1269 or 1270) provides rich accounts of such interactions, sometimes occurring directly between scholars, but other times involving much larger networks of people with a wide variety of religious affiliations. Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa weaves these figures throughout his biographical entries, revealing networks of scholarly interchange. In our project, we wanted to discover which people, places, and types of communication he shows as most central to exchange between communities of differing religious affiliations. The networks themselves we understand to be historiographical presentations by a physician who wished to trace the art of medicine through elite practitioners to his present day, relying in the process on both Islamic and other sources, as well as on information from his own broad range of acquaintances in the field. In this project report, we describe three processes crucial to our project. First, we identified and »tagged« people and places in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa’s text. This included creating entries for each person or place, which also served as authority data to which we could link using tags in the text of the History of Physicians. Second, we created prosopographical »factoids« for passages we wanted to study in detail. These are information nuggets that record in a machine-readable way what we understand the text to be asserting about people, relationships, and events. Finally, we loaded the tagged text and factoids into networks to help identify which persons, places, or features call for in-depth qualitative study in regard to exchange between religious communities.

Keywords:  interreligious networks, knowledge exchange, Near East/Middle East, Abrahamic religions, Abbasid caliphate (132-656 AH/750-1258 CE), Arabic, biographical literature, medieval science, medieval medicine, Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa (b. after 590 AH/1194 CE, d. 668/1269 or 1270), network analysis
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"medieval worlds" provides a forum for comparative, interdisciplinary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. Its aim is to overcome disciplinary boundaries, regional limits and national research traditions in Medieval Studies, to open up new spaces for discussion, and to help developing global perspectives. We focus on the period from c. 400 to 1500 CE but do not stick to rigid periodization.
medieval worlds is open to submissions of broadly comparative studies and matters of global interest, whether in single articles, companion papers, smaller clusters, or special issues on a subject of global/comparative history. We particularly invite studies of wide-ranging connectivity or comparison between different world regions.

Apart from research articles, medieval worlds publishes ongoing debates and project and conference reports on comparative medieval research.


In this volume we introduce the debate as a new format in Medieval Worlds. Scholars are invited to contribute to current topics of interest either with an essay or with comments to this essay. The series is opened with a lively discussion of the concept of “state” in medieval studies and offers contributions by B. D. Shaw, N. Di Cosmo, S. Gasparri and C. La Rocca, H.-W. Goetz, J. Haldon, Y. Stouraitis and R. Le Jan. M. Wiesinger, C. Jackel and N. Orban discuss first results of their ground-breaking ERC project Arithmetic, in which German mathematical treatises from the Late Middle Ages are studied. The second stand-alone contribution by A. Wareham compares English and Chinese sources with regard to peacemaking around the turn of the 11th century. The second instalment of our thematic section on Knowledge Collaboration among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims in the Abbasid Near East (guest editor N.P. Gibson) presents further studies on textual evidence of “other” (religions) as well as insights into possible uses of digital tools in this context.



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Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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A-1011 Wien, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
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