Recently Rukayyah Reichling published her research about the first moving pictures about the Hajj and Mecca. #BRILL #hajj #media...

The Trauma-Film Collective and Al-Jazeera Documentary are pleased to introduce to you, a six-episode documentary series sketching the...

In this film we present the research of ESR Robin Cognée while walking through the old city of Tunis. Cognée compares the Tunisian and ...

Dear all, we are pleased to announce the dates of the ITN-MIDA Final Conference. For 4 years, ESRs, Supervisors, Beneficiaries and...

"A year and a half ago, I learnt what grief was. Before that I had known waves of sadness, despair, depression, heartbreak and anger. But...

NEW FILM RELEASE Lena Richter's research is about non-religious everyday activism in Morocco and the Moroccan diaspora in Europe. Already...

Rayane al-Rammal contributed to the Brill publication The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement: Beyond the Arab Uprisings (edited by...

Tunis, September 2022 The International Forum for Humanities and Social Science INSANIYYAT took place in Tunis this year. Also MIDA...

On Friday the 28th of October at 3.45 p.m. I shall give my valedictory lecture as professor of Islam in European Societies at the Vrije...

This course will be rooted in anthropological and sociological theory, whilst encouraging students to bring in literary theory through...

Justin Benavidez works on the transfer of knowledge, in particular from Al-Andalus to the Islamic East. In his research he focus on the...

As part of my involvement in the project “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA), I spent an internship in the Gotha Research Library...

Elmozafar Abdelhafiz works on orientalism and its modern connections. Find out more about Abdelhafiz' reserach and current projects:...

Isn't the dissident quality of art intimately related to precisely its capacity to transcend mere political protest? In our...

by Lena Richter and Rayane Al-Rammal This last month (mid- February, mid-March 2022) a few ESRs had the chance to do a secondment at the...

To get a deeper understanding of a place we either read about it, visit it, or experience its art. In this virtual art exhibition, we are...

This special issue deals with the manifold process of authority-making among Muslims in Europe. The authors show that Islamic authority...

Mohamed El-Moursi works on the memoirs of ʻAbd Allāh B. Buluggīn. Buluggīn’s book ‘al-Tibyān’ documents history of Granada from the...

We proudly announce the latest article by Aleeha Zahra Ali "Conjuring Karbala Online and Offline - Experiences of the ‘Authentic’ in...

Eleonora Landucci works on Hybrid voices of Political Islam: Net-hnographies of Politico-Religious Movements in contemporary Morroco....