Courses: Caesar to Charlemagne, Qur'an to Crusades, Christian-Muslim Encounters, Islamic Civilization, Judaism-Christianity-Islam, Bible & Qur'an, History of Christmas, Historical Methods, Graduate Colloquium
Research & Publications: David Bertaina researches and publishes on the religious history of the late antique and medieval Mediterranean world. Bertaina is interested in medieval encounters between Christians and Muslims. He is also interested in the historical development of Christmas.
David Bertaina, . Leiden: Brill, 2022.
David Bertaina, "Muhammad's Family and Polytheism: From Middle Eastern Muslim Debate to Iberian Christian Polemic." In , ed. Charles Burnett and Pedro Mantas-Espana, 239-258. Cordoba: University of Cordoba Press, 2022.
David Bertaina, "The Catholic Story." In , ed. Mark Lamport and Mitri Raheb, 147-163. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022.
David Bertaina, "Bulus ibn Raja' (d. after 1012): An Egyptian Muslim Convert to Christianity Assesses Islam." In , ed. Ayman Ibrahim, 389-414. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2022.
David Bertaina, "The Arabic Version of the Liber Denudationis: How Fatimid Controversies shaped Medieval European Views of Islam." 31, no. 4 (2020): 425-443.
David Bertaina, "Trees and Decorations." In , ed. Timothy Larsen, 265-276. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
David Bertaina, ed., . Edited by David Bertaina, Sandra Keating, Mark Swanson, and Alexander Treiger. Leiden: Brill, 2019.