From 2019 to 2023, the MIDA (Mediating Islam in the Digital Age) project brought together a diverse and talented group of researchers who...

Reflections on a Turn Toward Lived Nonreligion Looking at the diverse experiences of former Muslims shows that becoming and being...

Recently Rukayyah Reichling published her research about the first moving pictures about the Hajj and Mecca. #BRILL #hajj #media...

Venture into the captivating world of my PhD dissertation, where I unravel the stories behind Iran's pivotal photographic moments. This...

In this short biopic, Justin M. Benavidez explores the life and writings of al-Qurtubi (‘the Cordoban’). Al-Qurtubi (d. 1273) lived in a...

In February 2023, we wrapped up the MIDA project with a final conference at KU Leuven, Belgium. Whilst many knots came to a close, some...

The Trauma-Film Collective and Al-Jazeera Documentary are pleased to introduce to you, a six-episode documentary series sketching the...

In this film we present the research of ESR Robin Cognée while walking through the old city of Tunis. Cognée compares the Tunisian and ...

Dear all, we are pleased to announce the dates of the ITN-MIDA Final Conference. For 4 years, ESRs, Supervisors, Beneficiaries and...

"A year and a half ago, I learnt what grief was. Before that I had known waves of sadness, despair, depression, heartbreak and anger. But...

NEW FILM RELEASE Lena Richter's research is about non-religious everyday activism in Morocco and the Moroccan diaspora in Europe. Already...

Rayane al-Rammal contributed to the Brill publication The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement: Beyond the Arab Uprisings (edited by...

Tunis, September 2022 The International Forum for Humanities and Social Science INSANIYYAT took place in Tunis this year. Also MIDA...

On Friday the 28th of October at 3.45 p.m. I shall give my valedictory lecture as professor of Islam in European Societies at the Vrije...

This course will be rooted in anthropological and sociological theory, whilst encouraging students to bring in literary theory through...

The Moroccan elections of September 2021 were unusual for various reasons. As electoral campaigning took place under pandemic...

Pascal Buresi & ESRs Elmozfar Kotoz Ahmed, Mustafa Oğuzhan Çolak, Rukayyah Reichling and Lena Richter: MIDA in the spotlight for the...

Justin Benavidez works on the transfer of knowledge, in particular from Al-Andalus to the Islamic East. In his research he focus on the...

The ENIS/NISIS-MIDA Summer School 2022 takes place from Monday 20 June to Friday 24 June 2002 at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University,...

As part of my involvement in the project “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA), I spent an internship in the Gotha Research Library...