News15 January 2025|Online LectureReligions and EmpiresPhoto: © State Hermitage Museum, St. PetersburgWe cordially invite you to our guest lecture “Religions and Empires" on Wed. Jan. 15, 2025, 5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For registration please...12 December 2024|EventA Family of Empires of Salvation Religions - The First 300 YearsPhoto: © SinaniThe program and abstracts for the hybrid workshop "A Family of Empires of Salvation Religions - The First 300 Years" are now online. Kindly take a...11 December 2024|EventA Family of Empires of Salvation Religions - The First 300 YearsPhoto: © MewesThe world of nation-states and secular salvation ideologies (Communism, Socialism, National Socialism, Fascism, etc.) is being shattered by imperial...13 November 2024|Online LectureChanging Agricultural LandscapesPhoto: © HeidenreichWe cordially invite you to our guest lecture “Changing Agricultural Landscapes" on Wed. Nov. 13, 2024, 5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For registration...6 November 2024|NewsSummary Book Launch Michael CookPhoto: Princeton University PressNow Online the Summary of the Book Launch by Michael Cooks 2024, A History of the Muslim World from its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity, Princeton...30 October 2024|EventA History of the Muslim World: From Its Origin to the Dawn of ModernityPhoto: Michael CookSave the date for the online book talk with Michael Cook organized by the RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies -Islam on...24 October 2024|EventVillas, monasterios y almunias en la península ibérica: élites, economía y poder (ss. IV-X)Photo: S. PanzramWe would like to invite you to the International Workshop "Villas, monasterios y almunias en la península ibérica: élites, economía y poder (ss...17 October 2024|WebinarWebinar on Islamic Numismatics with Stefan HeidemannPhoto: RomanIslam Center Time: Thursday, 4-6pm, Every two weeks Date: First session October 17, 2024 Last session January 23, 2025 This webinar is also part of...20 June 2024|EventSilver and Gold for the EmpirePhoto: © RomanIslam CenterThis workshop explores the role of mining and minting in the western Mediterranean world at the end of the Long Antiquity. It looks at the three large...17 June 2024|EventThe Quest and Conquest of Capital Cities in the "Translatio Imperii”Photo: © The METAll three major empires of the larger western hemisphere, the Roman, the Islamic and the Spanish Empire conquered capital cities of preceding empires...12 June 2024|Online LectureSlavery in the Iberian Peninsula and Islamic North AfricaPhoto: © BNPHumans as property are a deeply ingrained feature of human societies since the rise of a monetary economy in the Ancient Orient. Jeffrey Fynn-Paul...4 June 2024|InternationalesRediscovering the Chronicle of John of NikiuPhoto: British LibraryFirst published in 1883, the Chronicle of the Severan-miaphysite bishop John of Nikiu (fl. 690s) is the sole universal history to have survived from...13 May 2024|Call for ApplicationA City's tale between Rome and al-AndalusPhoto: © Wikimedia CommonsWe would like you to take note of the Call for Applications for the V Intensive Summer Course at the Casa Árabe in Cordoba, "A City's tale between...24 April 2024|Online LectureMusic in the Roman and Islamic EmpirePhoto: © HeidemannSound and Music are the most subtle and distinct way a culture and a religion in particular identifies. The communal act of singing and listening to...30 January 2024|EventRound table on „Between Sahara and Sea. Africa in the Roman Empire“ (with Touatia Amraoui, Stefan Ardeleanu, Sami Ben Tahar, David J. Mattingly, Sabine Panzram and David L. Stone)Photo: © Michigan PressIn collaboration with the University of Michigan Press, the Center for Advanced Study “RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural...29 January 2024|EventMilitary Foundations, Ribāṭs, and UrbanizationPhoto: © J. F. Esteban BarahonaRegistration until January 29, 2024 Kindly register for the the workshop "Military Foundations, Ribāts, and Urbanization" February 1–2, 2024...17 January 2024|Online LectureLuxury CeramicsPhoto: © Gómez MartínezWe cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture “Luxury Ceramics" on Wed. Jan. 17, 2024, 5 -7 pm (German time) on Zoom. For...2 January 2024|Call for PaperCfP Military Foundations, Ribāṭs, and UrbanizationPhoto: © J. F. Esteban BarahonaThe RomanIslam Center (Early Islam) invites abstracts for the workshop "Military Foundations, Ribāts, and Urbanization" February 1–2, 2024, organized...14 December 2023|Online LectureEmpowering the Sacred SpacesPhoto: © KHM-MuseumsverbandWe cordially invite you to our interdisciplinary guest lecture “Empowering the Sacred Spacesr" on Thurs. December 14, 2023, 5 -7 pm (German time) on...7 December 2023|EventAnthropology of the ObjectPhoto: © METUniversität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, AS-Saal, 20146 Hamburg. How can objects reveal processes of cultural and social change in the Early...Show all news