Center

The Center for Advanced Study “RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies” is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It opened in April 1, 2020 and will run for four years.

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The fellowship program is one of the central components of the RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies. It brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines working on Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity with a focus but not exclusively on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa during the first millennium CE.

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The Center brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore new approaches to Romanization and Islamication in this period and to set scholarly debate on a new footing...

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A comparative study of empire, approached by transcultural assimilation processes in what was historically a close-knit region – the western Mediterranean – through the example of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa is to be the substance of research...

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Prof. Dr. Stefan Heidemann (Islamic Studies)

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Prof. Dr. Sabine Panzram (Ancient History)

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