Arabic Christianity between the Ottoman Levant and Eastern Europe

Ioana Feodorov, Ph.D. (1999, University of Bucharest), Dr. Habil. (2017), is Senior researcher at the Institute for South-East European Studies, Romanian Academy, Bucharest. She is working on the connections between Romanians and Arabic-speaking Christians in the 16th-18th c., the Romanians’ contribution to Arabic printing, and Paul of Aleppo’s Travel Journal (in progress). She is the author of Dimitrie Cantemir, Salvation of the Sage and Ruin of the Sinful World (Brill, 2016). Bernard Heyberger, Ph.D. (1993, University of Nancy II), is Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. As a historian and an Arabist, he is a specialist in the study of Eastern Christians under Islam, especially in Ottoman Syria. Among other books, he is the author of Hindiyya, mystique et criminelle, Paris, 2001 (Arabic translation: Beirut, 2010; English translation: Cambridge, 2013). Samuel Noble, MPhil (2009, Yale University), is a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies at KU Leuven. His research focuses on the social and intellectual history of Arab Christians, particularly in the Patriarchate of Antioch. He is the co-editor of The Orthodox Church in the Arab World (700-1700): An Anthology of Sources (2014) and co-translator of Arab Orthodox Christians under the Ottomans 1516-1831 (2016).