We are happy to announce that our ESR Mounir Saifi participated in a seminar within "Islam in the 'Glocal' Mediterranean. Memory and the Uses of the Past", an online symposium organized by his university, the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), and Fundacion Euroarabe, a foundation dedicated to promoting Euro-Arab cooperation. The objective of the symposium is to facilitate exchange with the scientific community regarding: a) History and memory of Western Mediterranean Is

We finish this week by presenting you another film! Our ESR Eleonora Landucci was invited to participate at the European Researchers´ Night by the Escuela de Estudios Arabes in Granada (EEA-CSIC). She chose the topic "Anthropology in slippers: doing fieldwork in Morocco... from a computer". In her speech and video she talks about how she tries to overcome the problem of being unable to access the offline fieldwork, and how this has changed her research methodology. English s

We are happy to present the next exciting topic and film of our ESR Justin Benavidez. His research focusses on the history of knowledge through the writings of Muhammad al-Qurtubi, from the city of Cordoba. The writings of al-Qurtubi (d. 1273), in particular his commentary of the Qur'an, offer insight into the ways in which ideas about religious knowledge were read, shared, and integrated into mainstream Islamic thought. Enjoy Justin´s academic storytelling! #summer_school #d

2020 has been extraordinary in many ways – also for Muslim pilgrims as this year’s hajj was cancelled for most of them. Epidemic outbreaks are, of course, nothing new in history. How then did hajj organizers deal with these risks in the past? Our MIDA researcher Rukayyah Reichling had a closer look at the first documentary about the pilgrimage to Mecca. Based on this valuable film material from the 1920s, Rukayyah sheds light on the health measurements undertaken by the colon

We are very proud to show you the film of our ESR Zeynep Aydin. She focusses in her research on how the European public acts after terror attacks and what role mass media and social media play in terms of authority. She asks the question of how the transition from mass media to increased social media use is affecting online Islamophobia and how it is contributing to an increase in right-wing populism in Europe. Great work, Zeynep! And a nice weekend to all of you. #IslaminEur

We are happy to present MIDA´s next interesting and "confusing" film! It is realized and directed by our ESR Mohamed El-Moursi. His research focuses on Kitāb al-Tibyān or The Memoir of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Buluggīn (1073-1090), the last Zirid ruler of the Taifa of Granada. Enjoy this brief overview of his work and his participation in the online summer school. Great research, Mohamed! #online_conference #learning_from_home #summer_school #digital_age #MIDA_learning_Journey #itn_mid

We start this week with the fascinating film of our ESR Hayat Douhan. Hayat’s participation in the MIDA-ENIS summer school is an occasion to explore her research context/population, which is the Moroccan Muslim religious field/community in the diaspora. In her presentation, she tackled the issue of Moroccan Imams in Europe with a focus in Germany. Great job, Hayat! #Islam_in_Europe#Moroccan_diaspora #Moroccan_Imams #Imam_training . #open_access #sharing_knowledge #science4all

We finish this week strong by presenting you the great film of our ESR Mounir Saifi. His presentation at the MIDA 2020 summer school discusses an online article that denies the Muslim conquest of Spain around 711. Mounir tries to understand how this counter-narrative of al-Andalus, or Spain under Muslim rule, is used to claim identity space for "Self" by a female author and (a)religious minority member within the Arab world. Enjoy his work and have a nice weekend! #itn_mida #

Good morning! We are happy to start this week with the great film of Mahdieh Tavakol. Mahdiehs research is focused on the library of Baha al-Din Muhammad al-Amili (1547-1621 CE), the great Jabal Amili scholar in Safavid Persia. Her video is a brief overview of her work and the way she is trying to reconstruct this historical library whose manuscripts are now scattered around the globe. Exciting film and research, Mahdieh! #itn_mida #wisskomm #IslamAndScience #digitalage #scic

We are getting closer to the weekend with the interesting and well done film of our ESR Rayane Al-Rammal. Her #research tackles the artistic renaissance that took place during the recent and ongoing Lebanese uprisings (October 2019 - ). Rayane is asking: How are digital artivistic forms of self-expression inspired by the revolution? And how do they circulate online? Enjoy Rayane's (directing) work and have a nice weekend. Your MIDA Team #itn_mida #wisskomm #IslamAndScience #d

We are happy to present the next exciting film and topic to you, realized and directed by our ESR Robin Cognée. For his #phd he focuses on #mosque history, #architecture and #scripture in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In his film he discusses this question: How has the #IslamicCommunity of Bosnia and Herzegovina been using Internet and new online tools in order to cope with the #digitalera? Enjoy this nice film and have a good rest of the week! #wisskomm #IslamAndScience #digitalag

Good Monday everybody! We are starting this week by presenting another entertaining video of our Early Stage Researchers. Aleeha Zahra´s work is about digitization and how religious experiences can unfold within it. She is asking i.e.: How can religious authority manifest on popular social media platforms like #YouTube? This film is a short introduction, scraping the surface of her #ethnographic research project. Great job, Aleeha! #itn_mida #wisskomm #IslamAndScience #digita

We honour this Friday by presenting the next film of our young researchers. If you want to know how phd candidate and anthropologist Eleonora Landucci works, let her take you by the hand and walk you through the first steps of her research. To present her work and herself in her entertaining short film, she used an animated drawing. We are impressed, Eleonora! Enjoy and have a nice weekend you all. Your MIDA team Drawing and animation credits go to @nicola_gobbi #itn_mida #wi

Today is a special day. We proudly present the first of 15 films of the #ENIS/MIDA summer school 2020. Our ESR Elmozfar Abdelhafiz directed (t)his piece of moving art. Elmozfar, a scientist and historian, put an interesting approach into his entertaining short film. As the presenter he asks questions like: What if we were able to view and write history interactively? What if we approached it in a manner similar to video games? Enjoy. #wisdom #IslamAndScience #digitalage #scic