Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "Tolerance in a Minor Key: Early Modern Experiments"

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Lieu et date de l'événement :

École française de Rome - Piazza Navona, 62

Du à 17h00
au à 19h00

Domaine(s) : Histoire

Conférence de Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Collège de France-UCLA) à l’École française de Rome

Argumentaire :

Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Collège de France-UCLA)
Inaugural conference of the international doctoral workshop "What Place for Minorities"

 
The early modern period witnessed a variety of experiments to define institutional arrangements within which ideas of difference could be managed. These included what Schilling and others have termed "confessionalization", which is to say the physical separation of groups into sovereign spaces; but they also included ideas deriving from the so-called "Pact of Umar", the arrangement purportedly defined in the 7th century at the time of the Rightly Guided Caliphs of Islam. This talk will explore some of the ways in which such experiments emerged, and circulated as "modular forms", in a situation where empires both collided and competed.