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Panel „A Culture of Certainty: Islam, Knowledge, and the Search for Truth in Unstable and Uncertain Times“ (Vienna, 11.07.2025)
In July, I will be attending the annual conference of the European Academy of Religion in Vienna. Claire Gallien (Cambridge) invited me to participate in the panel she organized on the intriguing topic, „A Culture of Certainty: Islam, Knowledge, and the Search for Truth in Unstable and Uncertain Times.“ The panel is scheduled to take…
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CfP Conference „Poetry and Knowledge“ (Münster, 20.-22.11.2025)
We invite papers for an upcoming conference in Münster, Germany (November 20–22, 2025), focusing on Arabic poetry as a medium of knowledge. In premodern Islamic societies, poetry was one of the central literary forms for transmitting and disseminating knowledge. Poetry can be found in almost all fields of knowledge, from Qurʾanic sciences, jurisprudence, grammar, rhetoric,…
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Workshop „The Visual Scribe“ (Berlin, 10.-11.04.2025)
On 10 and 11 April 2025, I will be attending the workshop ‘The Visual Scribe: Tables and Diagrams in Middle Eastern Manuscripts‘ in Berlin, with a talk on the representation of lineage in genealogical trees from the Western Maghrib in the 17th and 18th centuries. Anyone wishing to participate online or in person is kindly…
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