Editorial

Abstract

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. Editorial Ingrid Hartl and Walter Pohl »The sun was darkened for seventeen days« (AD 797). An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Celestial Phenomena between Byzantium, Charlemagne, and a Volcanic Eruption Johannes Preiser-Kapeller and Ewald Kislinger Knowledge Collaboration among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims in the Abbasid Near East Guest editor: Nathan Gibson Knowledge Collaboration among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims in the Abbasid Near East: Introduction Nathan P. Gibson Why Muslims Shouldn’t Practice Medicine. The Autobiographical Account of a Frustrated Physician, Ibrahīm al-Qalyūbī (fl. second half 7th/13th) Ignacio Sánchez Alī and “Sons of Ādurbādh”: Zoroastrians Priests in the Early Islamic Era Kayla Dang On Attributes and Hypostases: Muslim Theology in the Interreligious Writings of Patriarch Timothy I (d. 823) Joachim Jakob For the Care of Body and Soul: The Greek Bible and an Arab-Islamic Botanical Text in a 10th-Century Palimpsest Fragment Matteo Pimpinelli Interreligious Scholarly Collaboration in Ibn al-Nadīm’s Fihrist Rémy Gareil Project Reports Indexing A Shared Knowledge Culture from Many Perspectives: The Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East (HIMME) as a Tool for Researching Diversity Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica S. Mutter Embedding Conquest: Naturalizing Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (Project Report) Cecilia Palombo