News and upcoming events (2025)15 October 2025|WebinarLiving Together: The Merging of Cultures and Laws through Arabic Documents and Manuscripts from Toledo and Egypt (12th to 14th century)Photo: LMU/A. KaplonyDr. Rocio Daga Portillo (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich) in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Ignacio Sánchez (Director of Research Institut Escuela...5 August 2025|LectureImaginative Constellations of the Bactrian Camel in Late Antique to Early Islamic Central Asia (Sogdiana)Photo: © SinaniThe Asien-Afrika Institut of the University of Hamburg and the Imam Bukhari International Scientific Research Center in Tashkent, Uzbekistan kindly...1 July 2025|ForschungFrom Classical ML to AI in Arabic and Islamic StudiesPhoto: © M.RomanovOrganizers: EIS1600 Team—Alicia Gonzalez Martinez, Hamid Reza Hakimi, and Maxim Romanov, University of Hamburg We are excited to announce the...10 June 2025|LectureSamarkand Sogdia: A Study Based on Written and Cartographic SourcesPhoto: © IBISRCThe Asien Afrika Institute Hamburg and the Imam Bukhari Institute in Samarqand would like to invite you to the next lecture in our series on the...20 May 2025|LectureApproaching and Distancing from Home in al-Fārābī's Great Book on MusicPhoto: © SinaniWe cordially invite you to the next lecture in our series on the history and culture of Central Asia, with a special focus on the Zerafshan Valley...30 April 2025|Islamic Material CultureConqueror like Caesar and Alexander the Great: Mahmud of GhazniPhoto: © WDR ZeitzeichenProfessor Stefan Heidemann was a guest on the WDR podcast "Zeitzeichen" (Time Sign), a daily podcast about history from antiquity to the present day...22 April 2025|LectureHistorical Names of the Central Asian RegionPhoto: © IBISRC Uzbek Khan, mint Khwarazm, 1317-8 CE © zeno.ru #211673 We coridally invite to the first lecture in our series on the history and culture of Central...21 April 2025|LectureThe Political Geography of the Last and Largest Empire of the Long Late AntiquityPhoto: Jimes.wustl.eduThe Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies invites you to a lecture on the Caliphate and governance in the 7th Century CE. The...15 March 2025|Internationales15th Numismatic Seminar at Hofstra University, NYPhoto: © Stefan HeidemannProgram of the 15th Kochnev Memorial seminar Hofstra University, Breslin Hall Room 109,March 15, 2025, Saturday, from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm.The...18 February 2025|LectureTimur’s Triumphant Return to Central Asia in the Early Modern PeriodPhoto: © SinaniWe cordially invite to the last lecture of this winter term's series on the history and culture of the Zerafshan Valley. The lecture will be...17 February 2025|WebinarThe 24th Arabic Papyrology WebclassPhoto: Khaled YounesProf. Dr. Khaled Younes, University of Sadat City Webinar application necessary, apply before March 30, 2025 Monday, 6:00 - 8:00 PM (Central European...21 January 2025|LectureA lecture by Dr. Oysara Madaliyeva on the manuscripts and research of ʿAlī-Shīr Navāʾī’s (Alisher Navoi) ‘Badāyi' al-Bidāya’Photo: © SinaniWe cordially invite to the third lecture of this winter term series on the history and culture of the Zerafshan Valley. The series is jointly...
