This October saw the second edition of the Annual Medieval Middle East Meeting, this time at the University of Amsterdam. Dutch universities are home to a quite large number of researchers and lecturers working on the premodern Islamicate world in all its respects. However, they are spread out over various departments, ranging from languages to…

The ENIS Spring School ’25 aims to examine the complex processes through which models and visions for the future of society are (re)negotiated (imagining the future) in Muslim communities. The ENIS Spring School ’25 was designed to trace the processes through which societal models of the future are developed in past and present and (re)negotiated, all…

This CfP is closed. You can no longer submit your abstract. The ENIS Spring School ’25 aims to examine the complex processes through which models and visions for the future of society are (re)negotiated (imagining the future) in Muslim communities. This process of (re)negotiation must be understood in the context of the profound disparities that…

NISIS organizes a study day in collaboration with the Clingendael Institute on ‘The Political Relevance of Islamism in the Contemporary Middle East’ . Confirmed speakers: Younes Saramifar, assistant professor of Inhumanities at the faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Joud Alkorani, assistant professor Islam, Politics and Society at the Radboud University Nijmegen; Mohamed-Ali…