Lectures & Symposia
Maimonides on Christianity and Islam
Kent Hall, Room 120 1020 E 58th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, ILJames Robinson, University of Chicago | Yousef Casewit, University of Chicago | Matthew Levering, University of Saint Mary of the Lake | David Novak, University of Toronto
What did Maimonides say about Christianity and Islam? How would Averroes or Thomas Aquinas have responded to him? This symposium will be a thought-experiment in interreligious dialogue. David Novak (University of Toronto) will begin by explicating Maimonides’ position. Yousef Casewit (University of Chicago) will put on the persona of Al-Ghazali to reply. And Matthew Levering (University of St. Mary of the Lake) will reply as if he were Thomas Aquinas. A conversation moderated by James Robinson (University of Chicago) and an audience Q-and-A will follow.