On Friday 14 June 2019, from 16.00 – 19.00 hours we will celebrate that NISIS is as of 1 January 2019 hosted by Utrecht University and led by Christian Lange! We cordially invite NISIS members to celebrate with us in the garden of Drift 15. Please register here before June 3.

The long-term research project “Bibliotheca Arabica – Towards a New History of Arabic Literature” based at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig (Germany) invites applications for a part-time PhD position working within the micro-historical sub-project “Libraries between the Mamluk and Ottoman Era” The application deadline is 18 May 2019. Start date is…

For the Workshop ‘Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies in Dialogue’ you can now register through this link. Please make sure to register before May 13, 2019! We are looking forward to welcoming you in Amsterdam.

Conveners: Prof. Dr. Marjo Buitelaar (University of Groningen) & Dr. Richard van Leeuwen (University of Amsterdam). Date: 12 & 13 December 2019. Venue: University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Key note speakers: Professor Seán McLoughlin (University of Leeds) To be announced Respondent: Professor Simon Coleman (University of Toronto) Given the centrality of Mecca and the…