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.
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.
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...
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...
