From Qom to Barcelona

Andreas Kaplony, Ph.D (1994), Habilitation (2001) is Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at LMU München. He has published widely on Arabic-Islamic history, including The Ḥaram of Jerusalem (2002), The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road (2008, ed. with Philippe Foret), and Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries (2019, ed. with Michael Marx).Daniel Potthast, Ph.D (2011) does research in Arabic and Islamic Studies. His main interest lies in the history of Muslim-Christian contacts in the Middle Ages. Besides several papers on Arabic epistolography, practices of diplomatic exchange between Arabic and Latin empires in the fourteenth century, and translations from Arabic into Latin, he has published Christen und Muslime im Andalus: Andalusische Christen und ihre Literatur nach religionspolemischen Texten des zehnten bis zwölften Jahrhunderts (2013).