Periodic Reporting for period 1 - CaMMEgy (Christians among Muslims in Medieval Egypt)
Período documentado: 2018-10-01 hasta 2020-09-30
From this perspective, the overall objective was to make an integrated and comparative analysis of data extracted from two corpuses – largely understudied so far – in order to highlight and understand these discourse strategies, from the 7th century onwards. These corpuses are Arabic historiographical sources, i.e. mainly the History of the Patriarch of Alexandria (HPA, 11th century) and the History of the Churches and Monasteries of Egypt (HCME, 13th century), and the so-called papyrological sources.
The analysis combined tools and methods from various disciplines, such as history, textual criticism, (socio-)linguistics (language level choice) and literary analysis.
As for its societal importance, the CaMMEgy project is considered a crucial step towards a much-needed holistic and diachronic understanding of the larger Christian-Muslim relationship(s), usually studied from a unique perspective, either Christian or Muslim.
Several methodological steps were distributed into 8 work packages:
WP1: Creating the digital tools; WP2: gathering the sources; WP3 : Feeding the working tool database; WP4: Interpreting the data from the HPA; WP5: Interpreting the data from the HCME; WP6: Training; WP7:Dissemination and exploitation of the results; WP8: Communication.
Numerous results have been achieved, all of them being presented in deliverables that present analyses of specific types of discourse strategies and representations in Coptic-Arabic historiographical literature: 9 of these deliverables are articles, 1 is in academic blog to be fed in the long-term. As for the articles, 3 have been released during the action, 3 are waiting for review and 3 are in preparation and will be submitted to peer-reviewed journals in 2021, as results from the CaMMEgy project.
Also, the PI carried out a large number of dissemination activities, in order to ensure a wide dissemination of the project’s results: organization of workshops and conferences, participations to workshops and conferences and invited lectures. It has to be noted that some activities targeted a large public audience (see hereafter).
In addition to these articles, some communications activities intended to disseminate the results of the project among society as well (radio show, public lecture, etc.). Indeed, a clear understanding of the diachronic evolution of coexisting modes and communication ways between communities is crucial. We need it to apprehend social dynamics in the Middle East today and, in particular, its fragile social diversity, currently endangered by geopolitical crises. This understanding is especially important, as a significant portion of these Middle Eastern populations now relocates and becomes an active part of European societies.