ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
What if cultural identity played a greater role than religion in shaping Muslim-Jewish relations? Maghrib-Bridges: The Endurance of Iberian Heritage in the Modern Maghrib (late 17th–late 20th Centuries), investigates this question by exploring how shared historical roots and cultural heritage connected Muslims and Jews in ways that transcended religious divisions. It focuses on the intertwined cultural history of Sephardic Jews and Andalusian Muslims in the Maghrib. By adopting a historical-anthropological approach, it analyses oral histories, material culture, and archival documents in Arabic, Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Spanish, and European languages to unveil the transformation of a…
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