Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Religious Studies
University of Colorado Boulder
Humanities 240 - 292 UCB
Boulder
CO
80309-0292
United States
ABOUT
Brian A. Catlos (PhD: University of Toronto, Medieval Studies, 2000) is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and Research Associate in Humanities at the University of California Santa Cruz. His work centers on Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations and ethno-religious identity in medieval Europe and the Islamic World, and the history of the pre-Modern Mediterranean. In addition to many articles, he has written The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050–1300 (Cambridge: 2004/ AHA Premio del Rey & Fagg Prize), Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Power, Faith and Violence in the Age of Crusade and Jihad (Farrer, Straus & Giroux: 2014), Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, 1050–ca. 1615 (Cambridge: 2014/ MESA Hourani Prize, MAA Haskins Prize) and Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (Basic Books: 2018). In 2022 University of California Press will publish the textbook,The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650 and the document reader, Texts from the Middle, co-written with Thomas Burman and Mark D. Meyerson. He has won numerous prizes and distinctions, and his work is translated into nine languages. He is currently working on several projects, including Paradoxes of Plurality, which proposes a model for analyzing individual and group identity in the pre-Modern Mediterranean. In addition, with Sharon Kinoshita, he co-directs the Mediterranean Seminar, an international forum with some 2000 members world-wide, co-edits the series Mediterranean Perspectives (Palgrave), and serves on numerous journal and monograph series boards.
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
7th-13th Centuries
Andalusi Studies
Christian Studies
Identity/Representation
Medieval
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Islamic World
Maghreb
Mediterranean Countries
Spain
Specialties
Christian-Muslim-Jewish Rltns (Middle Ages)
Islamic Spain-pre & Post Reconquest
Ethno-religious Identity And Relations
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Italian (intermediate)
Latin (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
Catalan (advanced)
Portuguese (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2000
| Centre Medieval Studies
| U Toronto
MA
| 1994
| Med Stds
| U of Toronto
Abstracts
The Survival of Muslim Minorities in Latin Christian Lands – A Question of Convenience
