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

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...

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...

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...

Justin Benavidez works on knowledge transfer between Al-Andalus and Egypt. He focuses on Muhammad al-Qurtubi, who built these bridges of...