The Corona pandemic has been influencing social discourse worldwide since 2019. You can research how this is being conducted in MENA countries in our book collections.
Over the past 2 years, the Specialised Information Service Middle East has acquired numerous … Read more
Now new in our holdings:
al-Wafāʾ bi-asmāʾ an-nisāʾ
mausūʿat tarāǧim aʿlām an-nisāʾ fi ‚l-ḥadīṯ an-nabawī / taʾlīf ad-duktūr Muḥammad Akram an-Nadwī ; murāǧaʿat laǧna min al-ʿulamāʾ bi-riʾāsat al-ustāḏ ad-Duktūr Hāšim Muḥammad ʿAlī Ḥusain Mahdī… Read more
Sorry, this entry is only available in German.… Read more
Almawrouth
A new addition to our collection from the MENA region is „al-Maurūṯ“ (الموروث / Almawrouth / Almourooth). This quarterly journal focuses on art and culture in the Arabic world.… Read more
Translating Arabic Legal Discourse
The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations invites papers in the disciplines of legal anthropology, law and comparative law, legal pragmatics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, politics and translation … Read more
The workshop wants to compare the dynamics in the so-called “Islamic center” (the Arabian Peninsula) with developments in the so called “Muslim Periphery”. It aims to problematize the discursive and lived interactions between gender, fashion, spirituality, religion, class, and ethnicity.… Read more
The Near Eastern Saddle Period: The Formation of Modern Concepts in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian
The Near Eastern saddle period can initially be suspected between 1860 and 1940, a period of great terminological and semantic variety and contestation in vibrant, … Read more