Introduction

Teresa Bernheimer (D.Phil Oxford 2007) is postdoctoral fellow at LMU Munich on the project Beyond Conflict and Coexistence. The Entangled History of Jewish-Arab Relations funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). She is a historian of the Middle East with a particular interest in the formation of Islam in the context of late antiquity and beyond, on which she has published several books and articles. From 2019-2022 she was spokesperson of the CAS LMU research group Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World: Texts and Ideas between Aksum, Constantinople, and Baghdad, together with Ronny Vollandt.