Call for Applications Deadline: 19 April 2026 Inter- and Transdisciplinary International Summer School 2026 within the framework of TransHumanities When: 31 August–4 September 2026 Where: Hotel Seaside, Spiez, https://www.hotel-seaside.ch Language: English ECTS: 6 Costs: CHF 600 (travel, food and accommodation [double room] covered by or ganizer; single room: CHF 750). Members of the GSAH and…

Over the past few years, we have understandably witnessed a lot of media attention for the war in the Gaza Strip, in which Israel killed more than 70,000 Palestinians after being attacked by a coalition of militant Palestinian groups that killed some 1,200 people in Israel. At the same time, two conflicts in broadly the…

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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…