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Religious Plurality and Interreligious Contacts in the Middle Ages (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 161)

Religious Plurality and Interreligious Contacts in the Middle Ages (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 161) AL-MASĀQ BOOK REVIEW Religious Plurality and Interreligious Contacts in the Middle Ages (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 161), by Ana Echevarría Arsuaga and D. Weltecke (eds.), Wolfenbüttel, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020, 224 pp., €58.00/£48.64 (hardback), ISBN13 9783447114660 This valuable volume is a collection of studies written by prominent Spanish and German scholars, originally brought together at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel and edited by Ana Echevarría Arsuaga and Dorothea Weltecke. Its eleven chapters (ten in English, one in Spanish) raise challenging and profitable questions about the nature of reli- gious and cultural identity in the Middle Ages, and the ways in which religious difference could be understood, regulated, enforced or minimised in medieval societies. As Dorothea Weltecke points out in the Introduction, the terminological considerations for such a study are many; it may not be possible, for example, to write meaningfully about “Muslim” or “Christian” societies when, as this volume clearly demonstrates, religious identity can be shifting, transmutable, and often in conflict with itself in many of the communities under dis- cussion. In addressing “religious plurality”, she does not connect the term to any modern sense of “pluralism”, but rather uses it precisely in an effort to reflect the “entanglement” (p.29) and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masāq Taylor & Francis

Religious Plurality and Interreligious Contacts in the Middle Ages (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 161)

Witcombe, Teresa
Al-Masāq , Volume 35 (1): 2 – Jan 2, 2023
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© 2023 Teresa Witcombe
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1473-348X
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0950-3110
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10.1080/09503110.2023.2172786
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AL-MASĀQ BOOK REVIEW Religious Plurality and Interreligious Contacts in the Middle Ages (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 161), by Ana Echevarría Arsuaga and D. Weltecke (eds.), Wolfenbüttel, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020, 224 pp., €58.00/£48.64 (hardback), ISBN13 9783447114660 This valuable volume is a collection of studies written by prominent Spanish and German scholars, originally brought together at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel and edited by Ana Echevarría Arsuaga and Dorothea Weltecke. Its eleven chapters (ten in English, one in Spanish) raise challenging and profitable questions about the nature of reli- gious and cultural identity in the Middle Ages, and the ways in which religious difference could be understood, regulated, enforced or minimised in medieval societies. As Dorothea Weltecke points out in the Introduction, the terminological considerations for such a study are many; it may not be possible, for example, to write meaningfully about “Muslim” or “Christian” societies when, as this volume clearly demonstrates, religious identity can be shifting, transmutable, and often in conflict with itself in many of the communities under dis- cussion. In addressing “religious plurality”, she does not connect the term to any modern sense of “pluralism”, but rather uses it precisely in an effort to reflect the “entanglement” (p.29) and

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