EDUCATION École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, December, 2001). University of Chicago (PhD in History, June, 1990; MA in History, August, 1986). Yale University (BA cum laude in Classical Civiliza¬tion, 1981). PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Université de Nantes, Professeur émérite d’histoire médiévale (September, 2023-present); Professeur d’histoire médiévale (September, 2002-August 2023); Maître de Conférences en histoire médiévale (September, 1996-August, 2002). Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes (October 2020-), Member of the Institute. Acting director (2021). Institut du Pluralisme Religieux et de l’Athéisme, Nantes. Director (2015-2019). (see www.ipra.eu) Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Ange Guépin, Nantes, Director (2008-2011). University of North Carolina at Greensboro, History Department, Assistant Professor (August, 1994-June, 1996). Stanford University, History Department, Lecturer (September, 1992-June, 1994).

VISTING PROFESSORSHIPS & RESIDENT FELLOWSHIPS Université Libre de Bruxelles (February-June, 2018), Visiting research professor associated with the Centre Interdisciplinaire d'Etude des Religions et de la Laïcité. Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg Konstanz, University of Constance (January-June, 2016). Invited researcher in an interdisciplinary institute devoted for 2015-2016 to the theme of religious minorities. University of Friboug, Switzerland (September 2014), participation in a week-long doctoral workshop on “Contacts et échanges culturels au Moyen Âge / Kulturelle Kontakte und Austausch im Mittelalter”. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (February-March, 2013). Université de Genève, Maison de l’Histoire, Visiting Professor (November, 2010). Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University, Visiting Research Fellowship (January-June, 2005). Institute for Research in the Humanities, Madison, Wisconsin, Honorary Fellowship (January-July, 2000 and July-August, 1998). American University of Cairo, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Distinguished Visiting Professorship (May, 1996).

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS (partial list) Fondation Ecritures et Spiritualités. Prix Ecritures et Spiritualités 2026 for Safar. Medieval Academy of America (2026-present). Elected corresponding fellow of the Academy. Académie littéraire de Bretagne et des Pays de la Loire (2025-present). Elected member of the academy. European Research Council, Horizon 2020, Synergy Grant (April 2019-March 2025, €9 842 000). Funds the research program “The European Qur’ān”, a joint research piloted by Mercedes García-Arenal (Madrid), Roberto Tottoli (Naples), Jan Loop (Copenhagen) and myself in Nantes. See euqu.eu. Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona (2020-present). Elected corresponding fellow of the Academy. Région Pays de la Loire, “Connect Talent” (March 2015-February 2019 ; € 400,000) : grant funded the establishment of the Institut de Pluralisme Religieux et de l’Athéisme (www.ipra.eu). Academia Europaea (2013-present). Elected member of the Academy. European Research Council, Seventh Framework Program, Advanced Researcher Grant (March 2010-February 2015; 2,300,000 €). www.relmin.eu Académie Française, Prix Diane Potier-Boès (November, 2008; €1500). History book prize for Le Saint chez le sultan. National Endowment for the Humanities, fellowship (January-September, 2005; $40,000). American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship (September, 1999-August, 2000; $36,000).

PUBLICATIONS Books Islam: A New History (Forthcoming: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024). England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. Nouvelle histoire de l’islam. Paris: Tallandier, 2022. Translations published in Korean (2024) and Turkish (2026); translations to be published in 2026 or 2027 in Arabic and Polish Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018); French translation, Mahomet l’Européen (Paris: Albin Michel, 2018). St. Francis and the Sultan: The Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. No InterWiki reference defined in properties for Wiki called "French edition"!. L’Europe latine et le monde arabe au Moyen Age : Cultures en conflit et en convergence. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009. Sons of Ishmael: Muslims through European Eyes in the Middle Ages. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. No InterWiki reference defined in properties for Wiki called "French translation"! No InterWiki reference defined in properties for Wiki called "Spanish translation"! Histoire médiévale: Les Relations entre les pays d'Islam et le monde latin du milieu du Xème siècle au milieu du XIIIème siècle. Paris: Bréal (Série CAPES-Agrégation), 2000. Petrus Alfonsi and his Medieval Readers. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993.

Collaborative books: Coeditor, along with Muhammad Ali Amir Moezzi, of Le Mahomet des historiens (Paris: Le Cerf, 2025). Safar: Sept siècles de voyages, d’aventures et de rencontres, des monastères médiévaux à Napoléon en passant par Luther et Goethe, pour découvrir comment le Coran s’est inscrit dans la culture européenne. (graphic book, in collaboration with Maurizio Busca and 21 other writers). (Nantes: Petit à Petit, 2025). Received the Prix Ecritures et Spiritualités 2026. Coeditor, along with Naima Afif and Jan Loop, of Le Coran européen (Paris: Hermann, 2025). Coeditor, along with Naima Afif, Katia Boissevain, Khaled Kchir & Jan Loop, of Le Coran vu d’ailleurs (Tunis: Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain, 2025). Coeditor, with José María Salvador González, of Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages: Between coexistence and conflict, special issue of De Medio Aevo, vol. 12, no. 1 (May, 2023). Coeditor, with Cándida Ferrero Hernández, of The Latin Qur’an, 1143–1500: Translation, Transition, Interpretation (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021). Editor of Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and Islam (London: Routledge, 2019). Coeditor, with Dominique Avon & Isabelle Saint-Martin, of Faits religieux et manuels d'histoire: contenus - institutions - pratiques : approches comparées à l'échelle internationale (Nancy : Éditions Arbre bleu, 2018). Coeditor, with Nora Berend, Youna Masset & Capucine Nemo-Pekelman, of Medieval Minorities: Law and Multiconfessional Societies in the Middle Ages (Turnhoult: Brepols, “Religion and law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies” series, 2017). Coeditor, with Juan-Pedro Monferrer-Sala & Ana Echevarría, of Law and Religious minorities in Medieval Societies: between theory and praxis (Turnhoult: Brepols, “Religion and law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies” series, 2016). Coeditor, with Martha Keil & Philippe Buc, of Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe: The historiographical legacy of Bernhard Blumenkranz (Turnhoult: Brepols, “Religion and law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies” series, 2016). Coeditor, with Ivan Jablonka, Jean-Philippe Schreiber, & Nikolas Jaspert, of Religious minorities, integration and the State (Turnhoult: Brepols, “Religion and law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies” series, 2016). La laïcité: des repères pour en parler et pour l’enseigner, avec Anne Vézier, Dominique Avon et al. (Nantes : ESPE, 2016). Editor of Expulsion and Diaspora Formation: Religious and Ethnic Identities in Flux from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century (Turnhoult: Brepols, “Religion and law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies” series, 2015). Coeditor, with Stéphane Boisselier, of Religious cohabitation in European Towns, 10th-15th centuries (Turnhoult: Brepols, “Religion and law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies” series, 2015). Coeditor, with Hassen el Annabi, of Enjeux identitaires en mutation: Europe et bassin méditerranéen (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2014). Coeditor, with Nicholas De Lange, Laurence Foschia & Capucine Nemo-Pekelman, of Jews in Early Christian Law: Byzantium and the Latin West, 6th-11th centuries. (Turnhoult: Brepols, “Religion and law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies” series, 2014). Coeditor, with Maribel Fierro, of The legal status of Dhimmis in the Muslim West in the Middle Ages, (Turnhoult: Brepols, “Religion and law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies” series, 2013). Europe and Islam: Fifteen centuries of History (With Gilles Veinstein & Henry Laurens). (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013). No InterWiki reference defined in properties for Wiki called "Original French edition"!. --One of Choice's outstanding academic titles for 2013 Coeditor, with José Martínez Gázquez, of Ritus infidelium: Miradas interconfesionales sobre las prácticas religiosas en la Edad Media (Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2013). Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, with David Thomas et al. 5 vols., Leiden: Brill, 2009-13. Editor, in collaboration with Stéphane Boisselier & François Clément, of Minorités et régulations sociales en Méditerranée médievale (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010). Editor of L’Echange: actes des journées “le lien social”, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Nantes Ange Guépin 2007 (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009). Co-editor, with François Clément, of Culture arabe et culture européenne: l’inconnu au turban dans l’album de famille. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2006. Espaces d'échanges en Méditerranée: Antiquité et Moyen Age. Edition of conference acts, with François Clément and Jérôme Wilgaux. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2006. L’Histoire de l’islam et des musulmans en France, Mohammed Arkoun, éd. (Paris: Albin Michel, 2006): contribution of chapters on the vision of Islam in France in the Middle Ages. Editor of Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam: A Collection of Essays. New York: Garland Press, 1996 & London: Routledge, 2000.

ARTICLES; PAPERS GIVEN AT CONFERENCES; PARTICIPATION IN SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, AND ROUND-TABLES ; PUBLIC LECTURES I have published over 120 articles (in scientific journals and collected volumes), and over 100 book reviews. Over the course of my career, I have participated in over 100 conferences, have given talks (in English, French, Spanish and Italian) at numerous seminars and workshops, have given frequent public lectures, and have been invited many times on radio and television. I have organized and coordinated numerous seminars and conferences. These various activities have taken me to 28 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America. My speaking engagements have principally been in English and French, though sometimes also in Spanish and Italian. For a full list of these activities, see my full CV at https://univ-nantes.academia.edu/JohnTolan