The new Open Access publication Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond. Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility. edited by Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Viola Thimm is now available. This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women’s mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women’s lives. Bringing together scholars from…

On 23 November 2020 ACMES is organizing a panel on “Sharia, Justice and Legal Order” in celebration of the publication of Sharia, Justice and Legal Order Egyptian and Islamic Law: Selected Essays (Brill, 2020) by Rudolph Peters. Please read more about the program here.    

The Innovative Training Network “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) and the European Network for Islamic Studies (ENIS) organise the MIDA/ENIS Summer School 2021   Spoken images of/in Islam: Languages and Translations in Texts and Images   Online 5-9 July 2021 Call: 6 November 2020 Deadline: 1 April 2021 Host institution: Università degli Studi di Catania   The main objective of…

The virtual colloquium named “Oman Studies in Germany: New research in archaeology, history and social anthropology” that was supposed to take place on November 30 has been postponed until May or June 2021. Please read more information about the postponement below: