The Asia-Africa-Institute at Hamburg University is hosting a workshop on ‘The Measure of Integration: Economic Structures and Resources of the Early Islamic Empire‘ from 16-17 February 2018. For more information please visit the website.… Read more
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Rationalität in der islamischen Theologie zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Die Moderne
The Department Islamisch-Religiöse Studien DIRS, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg is hosting a conference on ‘Rationalität in der islamischen Theologie zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Die Moderne‘ from 23-25 November 2017. Please find more information here.… Read more
Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods
The Trier University is hosting a conference on ‘Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods‘ from 21-23 November 2017. Please find more information here.… Read more
3rd European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman & Turkish Studies
GTOT e.V. (Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies) invites scholars from all over the world working in the fields of history, linguistics, philology, literary studies, social sciences, anthropology, and political sciences on Turkey and the Turkic World to participate … Read more
Islam in the “Age of Confessionalization”
The talk aims to investigate the impact of confessional polarization among Muslims
living in the early modern Ottoman Empire (and beyond) on the emergence of
new conceptual distinctions in the discourses of piety, morality and governance
articulated by Ottoman Muslims … Read more
Ph.D. Research Grant Announcement 2018
The Orient-Institut Istanbul is pleased to invite applications for Ph.D. research grants for 2018 and for the academic year of 2018/19. The purpose of the grant is the support of field research in Istanbul/Turkey for Ph.D. students not living in … Read more
Bibliotheca Arabica – A New History of Arabic Literature
The project “Bibliotheca Arabica” has been approved for the University of Leipzig and the Saxon University of Sciences, aiming to develop and compile fundamental knowledge on literary and scientific production and practice between the 12th and 19th century. … Read more