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

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

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

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....

Rukayyah Reichling works on Media and the Hajj. In her MIDA project she focuses on the capturing of Mecca by Dutchmen. Reichling takes a...

Mustafa Çolak researches Turkish TV Series. Çolak analyzes how symbols are represented and examines the construction of various...

Mahdieh Tavakol works on "Books from the library of Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmilī (953-1030/1547-1621), from carriers of knowledge to...

Early Stage Researcher Elaheh Habibi works on War Photography in Iran. Her project title "Visual Battlefield: Past Inspirations and...

Mahdieh Tavakol researches on the library of Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmilī (1547-1621). The manuscripts of this collection are spread...

It has been half time of the MIDA. The Team met in Paris, September 2021. The film shows Prof. Pascal Buresi and Prof. Thijl Sunier...