THIS CALL WAS CLOSED ON MAY 1st. We don’t accept any registrations received after the closing date. Peripheral Islam: Muslims on the Geographical, Normative, Political and Religious Margins When picturing the mainstream of Islam, many people will think of Arabs from the Middle East. While the latter area is clearly the first region in which…

What is specifically Islamic about Islamic philosophy? The discipline of philosophy (Arabic: falsafa) finds its roots in ancient Greece and deals with topics that, if not universally relevant, are at least not specifically tied to Islamic tradition. So what is it that makes philosophy stand out as being Islamic? Is this related to the philosophers in…

NISIS Study Day “Islamic Philosophy?”, Radboud University, Nijmegen, April 2024 This event is fully booked, therefore it is not possible anymore to register. As Western faculties strive to diversify their curricula to combat its historically Eurocentric focus, interest for non-Western philosophical traditions has been on the rise. One of the beneficiaries of this trend has…

  The NISIS Junior Council invites all Junior Members to join our monthly seminar which will be held online on the last Monday of each month at 3.30pm. This seminar is meant as a way to keep in contact, discuss any problems that we face as PhD’s and specifically PhD’s in Islamic studies (in the…