CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Middle Eastern Christianity Unit and South Asian Religions Unit

Transnational Connections between the Middle East and South Asia

From the early spread of Syriac Christian traditions to South India to the more recent presence of Indian and Pakistani migrants in the Gulf States, traffic across the Indian Ocean has long connected the Middle East and South Asia. The Middle Eastern Christianity unit welcomes paper proposals for a co-sponsored session with the South Asian Religions unit engaging the intersections between Middle Eastern and South Asian religious traditions, communities, or individuals in the contemporary world or any historical period.