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Allahu Akbar: When the Imaginative, the Beautiful and the Ethical Meet in Muslim Futures
In: Journal of Muslims in Europe Author: Sara Bolghiran (Junior member of NISIS) Online Publication Date: 06 Dec 2024 You can read the article here, or check the website: Allahu Akbar: When the Imaginative, the Beautiful and the Ethical Meet in Muslim Futures in: Journal of Muslims in Europe Volume 13 Issue 3 (2024)
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Winter School: Commensality and Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Its Diasporas
This Winter School revolves around the theme of “commensality,” which means being at the same table and eating together, with literal and metaphorical implications for respecting differences among those who share a meal. As a field of growing research in the arena of public health, scholars now connect commensality and sociability to individual and communal…
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Call for Papers: Sensing the Materiality of the Early Modern Islamic World
Historians of Islamic art have long been attentive to the sensory properties of material culture and architecture in the early modern period. The longstanding interest in perception coupled with more recent efforts to understand it as a multi-sensorial phenomenon has also nurtured breakthroughs in the study of aesthetics and major epistemological reorientations within the field….
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Report NISIS Autumn School ’24
Please check out this web page to read the report: Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies | Past Events
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