Abby Kulisz received a Dissertation Completion Fellowship through the College of Arts and Sciences for the 2021-2022 academic year. Kulisz's dissertation, “Sacred Friendship, Holy Hatred: Christian-Muslim Encounters with the Book in the Medieval Middle East” seeks to understand Christian-Muslim conflict in the medieval period through encounters with shared books. She explores how Christians construct their own account of the “People of the Book,” a famous phrase from the Qur’an but also one that is instructive in understanding how Christians theorized their relationship with Muslims.
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