Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad dynasty in 750 CE, an important element in legitimizing their newly won authority involved defining themselves in the eyes of their Islamic subjects....
A certain triumphalist fatalism has long dominated the historiography of the rise of Christianity and that of the expansion of Islam. Eusebius and Jerome give the tone: they celebrate a Christian cult destined to...
A research-intensive course at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, July 10-21, 2017 The course will introduce its students to the ways in which Jews and Christians interacted in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, the...
Debates and discussions at Lieu Unique For our third event in the IPRA-LU “Labo Utile – questions de société” program, Béatrice de Gasquet and Vincent Vilmain will discuss onthe topic “The synagog, a man’s...
GRANT IN JEWISH STUDIES (CSIC‐UCM) The project “Jewish Cultures Across Mediterranean Europe” (CSIC‐UCM), invites applications for one year research grant in the field of Jewish studies at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) or...
The Institut Orientaliste de Louvain presents its first MOOC in Oriental Studies MOOC “Oriental Beliefs: Between Reason and Traditions”, to start on 4 October 2016. A journey through the world of beliefs as they...
