As the most restrictive corona measures are over, the birds start singing again and the sun finally shows its face, we would like to invite you all on a NISIS Junior Hike! This would give us a wonderful opportunity to come together, meet and mingle, talk about our research or anything else whilst getting some…

On Friday the 20th of May, Research Schools NISIS will organize a Workshop day about ‘Islam & the media’ for RMA and PhD students. After two plenary sessions, one with a keynote by dr. Martijn de Koning (Radboud University) and another by a speaker still to be confirmed, you can attend two different workshops. The…

ORGANIZERS • Mehdi Berriah, VU Amsterdam • Arjan Post, KU Leuven • Sarah Van Eyken, KU Leuven • Nadjet Zouggar, Aix-Marseille University OVERVIEW Over the past two decades, the growing number of works on Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) confirms the ever growing interest of scholars in the famous Ḥanbalī theologian of Damascus who is undeniably…

LECTIO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Networking through biography. Doctrinal and literary strategies in biographical literature for constructing intellectual networks from Antiquity to the Renaissance. KU Leuven, December 7- 9 december, 2022 Writing biographies or inserting biographical information into other literary genres is a proven way to construct pictures of intellectual (and other) networks. Various types of biography…