Arabicizing Syriac Legal Traditions

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Lev Weitz is associate professor of history at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. A historian of the Islamic Middle East, his scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims, Christians, and Jews that have shaped the region’s history from the coming of Islam to the present. He is the author of Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

Sponsors: the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Near Eastern Studies Program, The Program in Medieval Studies, and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity.