M Mahdieh Tavakol works on "Books from the library of Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmilī (953-1030/1547-1621), from carriers of knowledge to...

Early Stage Researcher Elaheh Habibi works on War Photography in Iran. Her project title "Visual Battlefield: Past Inspirations and...

Mahdieh Tavakol researches on the library of Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad al-ʿĀmilī (1547-1621). The manuscripts of this collection are spread...

Justin Benavidez works on knowledge transfer between Al-Andalus and Egypt. He focuses on Muhammad al-Qurtubi, who built these bridges of...

It has been half time of the MIDA. The Team met in Paris, September 2021. The film shows Prof. Pascal Buresi and Prof. Thijl Sunier...

Zeynep Aydin's article "The Web of Hate: Fragmentation of Media Authority and its Link to Right-Wing Populism and Cyber Islamophobia'',...

During his training at BRILL Mohamed El-Moursi made this Interview about "Studying the Qurʾān in a Broader Context: Late Antiquity,...

Mohamed El-Moursi is an Early Stage Researcher (ESR), working at EHESS in Paris. His research focuses on Kitāb al-Tibyān or The Memoir...

We are happy to announce the most recent publication of Rukayyah Reichling, one of our Early Stage Researchers based in Amsterdam: "A...

Condensing a whole doctoral research project into THREE minutes – is that even possible? Yes, it is! Rukayyah Reichling, our Early Stage...

Hayat Douhan works on diasporic Islam among Moroccan Muslims in Germany. Her main question is how the digitization influences the...

For a decade, TRT (Turkish state broadcaster) has been increasingly producing TV series about Ottoman history. One of the most popular...

MIDA is pleased to announce that we have good news from our Early-Stage Researcher Mustafa Colak's project! Peter Verhaar and Ben...

"Islamophobia or Liberty of Expression: How the Image of Islam is Debated on Social Media" Aydin Zeynep works on how we talk about Islam...

Professor Amr Ryad was selected for the Humboldt Research Fellowship Program for Experienced Researchers. In collaboration with Professor...

WORKSHOP: The Popular Outreach of Turkish TV Series (6-10 December 2021) "The Turkish dizi (television series) has yielded a highly...

What is the experience of the majlis sermon online and offline? How is it different and similar for both practitioners, & for the...

Robin Cognée deals with the architecture and scripture of the Bosnian mosque. For more information about his current research, click...

ESR Mounir Saifi deals with the discourse of Al-Andalus online. For more information about his current research, click here:...

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 7th marks "Dan džamija" (the "Day of the mosques"), the annual commemoration of all the mosques destroyed...

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Since its introduction in the very first decade of the 8th century (during the reconstruction of the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina, by...

Mohamed El-Moursi is one of our Early-Stage Researchers from the MIDA project. His research focuses on the character and self-description...

Witnessing the empty streets of this unfamiliar country almost felt like an archaeological adventure into the relics of a lost civilization

From the 19th of March onwards BRAIS, the British Association of Islamic Studies will organize a series of online sessions with papers...

We’re happy to announce the publication of the Special Issue "Religious Transformation in the Middle East - Spirituality, Religious...

One of the important issues adressed in my thesis, entitled « Mosque architecture and scripture in Bosnia and Herzegovina : between...

We say Goodbye to 2020 by presenting you the last MIDA film for this year. Our ESR Mustafa Colak´s presentation about his research topic...

Interview with Elaheh Habibi, our MIDA Ph.D. fellow about her selected film "About Love on a Small Island" at Athens Ethnographic Film...

As part of a challenge by the Research Execution Agency of the European Commission, researchers funded by the EU were asked to explain...

Workshop: Visual and Material Mediation of Islam in the Digital Age, 4th Congress of Studies on the Middle East and Muslim Worlds- 28-30...

We finish this week by presenting you another film! Our ESR Eleonora Landucci was invited to participate at the European Researchers´ ...

We are very happy to present a new MIDA film today! Enjoy the great storytelling of ESR Rayane Al-Rammal. During a network analysis...

We start this week with great news! Our MIDA website got a new look - check it out and share it: itn-mida.org #websiterelaunch #newdesign...

We are happy to present the next exciting topic and film of our ESR Justin Benavidez. His research focusses on the history of knowledge...

2020 has been extraordinary in many ways – also for Muslim pilgrims as this year’s hajj was cancelled for most of them. Epidemic...

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...

We are happy to present MIDA´s next interesting and "confusing" film! It is realized and directed by our ESR Mohamed El-Moursi. His...

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...

We finish this week strong by presenting you the great film of our ESR Mounir Saifi. His presentation at the MIDA 2020 summer school...

Good day you all! We proudly present the next recap of one of the presentations given during the MIDA summer school by our ESR Lena...

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...

We are getting closer to the weekend with the interesting and well done film of our ESR Rayane Al-Rammal. Her #research tackles the...

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...

Good Monday everybody! We are starting this week by presenting another entertaining video of our Early Stage Researchers. Aleeha Zahra´s...

We honour this Friday by presenting the next film of our young researchers. If you want to know how phd candidate and anthropologist...

Today is a special day. We proudly present the first of 15 films of the #ENIS/MIDA summer school 2020. Our ESR Elmozfar Abdelhafiz...