International seminar: 'Translators, copyists and interpreters: Jews, Christians and Muslims and the transmission of the Bible in Arabic in the Middle Ages'.

26-28 April 2017 in Cordoba; Casa Árabe Auditorium: C/ Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9.

The international seminar: 'Translators, copyists and interpreters: Jews, Christians and Muslims and the transmission of the Bible in Arabic in the Middle Ages', (whose programme can be downloaded here) will bring together specialists from different national and international academic institutions who will study the various translation strategies and techniques used by Muslim, Jewish and Christian translators, with the aim of finding new fields of work and tracing possible sites of intercultural transfer between translators and interpreters of the three great monotheistic traditions.

Casa Árabe's headquarters in Cordoba will be hosting the aforementioned meeting, which is organised by the University of Cordoba, Tel Aviv University and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. In addition, the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation, the Tourism Delegation of the Cordoba City Council (https://www.cordoba.es/cultura-y-ocio/turismo), the Cordoba Near Eastern Research Unit (CNERU), the University of Cordoba, the University of Tel Aviv and the Institute of Advanced Studies of Princeton will be hosting the meeting. https://www.uco.es/cneru/) and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness - through the research project: "Study and edition of Greek-Arabic and Latin biblical and patristic manuscripts and patristic manuscripts" (http://www.uco.es/mabipagal/)- also participate as co-organisers.