Name: Conference: Sources of Pluralism in Islamic Thought
Start: 2018-07-09T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2018-07-11T23:59:59-04:00
Location: Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz

June 2018

Open Call: Modeling Travels in History: an ORBIS-esque Hackaton

June 30, 2018

Everyone is familiar with Google Maps—all of us are using it on a daily basis. In 2012 a group of researchers at Stanford (led by Walter Scheidel), developed Orbis (http://orbis.stanford.edu/), which, one may put, applied the same geographical principles to a particular historical context. Dubbed “a Google Maps for the Roman Empire”, this model became … Continue reading Open Call: Modeling Travels in History: an ORBIS-esque Hackaton

July 2018

Course: Digital Islamic Humanities

July 2, 2018 - July 4, 2018

Ghent University Ghent, Belgium

The three-day intensive course in Digital Islamic Humanities is intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants. It will be offered by Dr Maxim Romanov (Universität Wien) and will be held immediately before the fifth conference of the School of Mamluk Studies at Ghent University, in collaboration with the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities … Continue reading Course: Digital Islamic Humanities

Workshop: Cultural Expertise in Ancient and Modern History

July 4, 2018 - July 5, 2018

This workshop takes place within the project Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? (EURO-EXPERT) funded by the European Research Council and directed by Livia Holden. This workshop explores cultural expertise in the ancient and modern history of expert witnessing. The stress of this workshop will be on development and change of culture-related expert witnessing, … Continue reading Workshop: Cultural Expertise in Ancient and Modern History

Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies

July 5, 2018 - July 7, 2018

Ghent University Ghent, Belgium

The first day of the conference, July 5, will be themed. The theme of this part of the conference will be Historiography/Adab. The following two days of the conference (July 6 and 7) will be structured in pre-organized panels that will focus on any aspect of the intellectual, political, social, economic, and artistic life of … Continue reading Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies

Conference: Sources of Pluralism in Islamic Thought

July 9, 2018 - July 11, 2018

Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz Casablanca, Morocco

As a global religion, Islam and its jurisprudence have offered heterogeneous responses to a range of questions facing different faiths and communities. Modernity imposed new questions upon religious scholars, theologians and philosophers, demanding of them a new version of pluralism in the theological and political arenas. While doctrinal or philosophical exclusivism rejects “the other” in … Continue reading Conference: Sources of Pluralism in Islamic Thought