Martino Diez: Did Muslims Read the Bible in the Middle Ages? | The Bible in Arabic

In this interview I sit down with Professor Martino Diez to discuss the Bible’s history in Arabic. We discuss how both Christians and Muslims would have interacted with the Bible in the Middle Ages, the state of Christian learning in the Islamicate world, and the work of one Christian historian Ibn al-’Amid.   Martino Diez is associate professor of Arabic language and literature at the Catholic University of Milan. He is also scientific director of the Oasis International Foundation. In 2018-2019 he was a visiting member at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton, where he started the project of critically editing Ibn al-ʿAmīd’s Universal History. The Book Martino’s Academia page: Oasis Foundation My institutional page at the Catholic University of Milan