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In older works on Islamic history, it was not uncommon for academic authors to refer to certain trends within Islam as “orthodox”. While this label, which such studies invariably applied to (specific forms of) Sunnism as opposed to Mu‘tazilism (Gibb 1958; Hitti 1970), certainly has its uses in the study of Islam, its straightforward application…

On Thursday April 23, NISIS organizes its third film screening in collaboration with a group of French documentary makers. This time, the evening starts with networking drinks, where NISIS Junior members can meet Senior members. NISIS is an unparalleled research school in the Dutch academic landscape, that unites nine different universities and offers high quality…

Concepts have long lost their innocence, not least due to post-modern and post-colonial critique. In the heydays of modernity, researchers tended to presume the universalism of key analytical concepts: every society was thought to have some form of state, some version of religion, art, literature, or science. All of those supposedly universal concepts have been…