Shereen Abou El Naga
(Cairo University)
Women Reading / Crossing Borders

Hany Hanafy
(Tanta University)
Re-inscribing the Boundaries of the Novelistic and History in Radwa Ashour’s Part of Europe

Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
(Northeast University)
Subversive Acts: the Theatre and Social Contestation in Syria and Egypt, 1850–1914

Nora Lafi
(Zentrum Moderner Orient)
Old Regime Urban Government in Merchant Cities of the Ottoman Empire (Middle-East and Maghreb)

Abdellah Larhmaid
(University of Mohammed V)
Jewish Minority, Muslim Majority: Formation of Nationalist Ideas in Modern Morocco

Dana Sajdi
(Amman)
The Barber of Damascus: Episodes in Early Modern Culture

Shereen Abou El Naga
(Cairo University)
Woman Reading / Crossing Borders

Abed Azzam
(Tel-Aviv University)
The Hermeneutics of the Antichrist in Nietzsche’s History of Christianity

Hülya Canbakal
(Sabanci University)
Social Conflict in 18th century `Ayntab

Constantin Iordachi
(Central European University, Budapest)
Inter-Communitarian Relations at the Lower Danube: The Case of the Dobrudjan Merchant Cities of Tulcea, Sluina and Constanta (1839–1940)

Assaad Elias Kattan
(University of Balamand)
Thinking Modernity. A Study of Reception of Modern Hermeneutics in Islamic Lebanese Circles (1992–2004)

Kader Konuk
(University of Michigan)
Jewish-German Philologists in Turkish Exile

Nora Lafi
(Université de Paris / Université de Provence, Arles)
Old Regime Urban Government in Merchant Cities of the Ottoman Empire (Middle-East and Maghreb)

Abdellah Larhmaid
(University of Mohammed V)
Jewish Minority, Muslim Majority: Formation of Nationalist Ideas in Modern Morocco

Ulrika Martensson
(Trondheim University)
Notions of Reform in Medieval Islamic Hermeneutics, the ‘new’ Orientalist Discourse, Max Weber’s ‘Interpretative Sociology’ and Cultural ‘Ideal Types’

Asli Niyazioglu
(Oxford University)
Between Two Worlds: Writing Life Stories in the Late 19th Century

Azam Puyazadeh
(Tehran University)
The Development of Tafsir from Other Worldly Orientation to Worldly Orientation

Samah Selim
(Marseille)
‘The Peoples Entertainment’: The Popular Novel in Egypt, 1904–1911

Malek Sharif
(Freie Universität Berlin)
 A Social History of the Medical Profession in 19th Century Beirut

Yücel Terzibasoglu
(Bogazici University)
Urban Property and Administration in Dispute: Ayvalik, 1877–1926

Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh
(Bir Zayt University)
Poetics of Identity and the ‘Other’: The Mahmoud Darwish Reader

Saeid Edalat Nezhad
(International Centre for Dialogue among Civilizations, Tehran)
On the Interaction of Natural Science and Qur’anic Exegesis

Biray Kirli 
(Bogazici University)
Istanbul: A World No More: Christians, Muslims and Jews in Nineteenth-Century Izmir

Mohammad Mojahedi
(Research Institute for Curriculum and Innovation, Tehran)
A Comparative Interdisciplinary Study on Hermeneutical Criteria of Distinguishing between “Core” and “Margin” in Mystical-Experience-Oriented Interpretation of the Holy Qur’an

Asli Niyazioglu
(Harvard University)
Between Two Worlds: Writing Life Stories in the Late Nineteenth Century Ottoman Society

Florian Riedler
(University of London)
Temporary Workers and Small Traders in and around Khans and Bachelor Houses in Ottoman Port Cities in the 19th Century

Canay Sahin
(Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul)
Tax-Farmers, Notables and Merchants in the Black Sea Region at the End of the Eighteenth Century

Sunil Sharma
(Harvard University)
Defining the Literary Domains of Persianate Cultural Traditions

Meltem Toksöz
(Bogazici University)
‘Furnishing Merchants’ of Port-Cities

Daniel Tsadik
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Shi’ite Tafsir of the Jewish Scriptures

Sevket Yavuz
(Canakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi)
The Project for a New Islamic Episteme and the Reconstruction of New Hermeneutics in Islam. The Reconstruction of the “Other” in Muslim Existence in Light of the Textual and Archetypal Paradigms

Randa Abou-Bakr
(Cairo University)
Re-Examining Cultural Theory: Egyptian Colloquial Poetry as Subversive Discourse

Hülya Adak
(Sabanci University)
Self and Subjectivity in Live Story Narratives of the Middle East

Maher Jarrar
(American University of Beirut)
Space and the Poetics of Prose in Modern Arabic Narrative

Morteza Kariminiya
(University of Tehran / Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation)
The Role of Shaikh Tusi in the Development of Early Shi’ite Exegesis

Georges Tamer
(Universität Erlangen)
The Concept of Time ind Qur’an and ist Hermeneutics

Yehia Zekri
(Cairo University)
Arab-Jewish Literature

Jillali el-Adnani
(Marocco / Arles)
Conflicts and Hierarchy: Or How the Neat and Polished Up Saint’s Image was Frozen

Abdallah Chanfi Ahmed
(Zentrum Moderner Orient)
Da’wa et Ngoma: Quelques aspects de l’Islam traditionnel contestés par les nouveaux ulémas aux Comores et en pays swahili (Afrique orientale). Une approche anthropologique

Samer Mahdi Ali
(Indiana University)
Generosity like God’s: Praise Ceremony and the Cultural Foundation of an Old Virtue

David Atwill
Along the Multiple Periphery: Islamic Language, Ethnicity, and Symbols in the Borderworld of SW China

Vladimir Bobrovnikov
(School for Oriental Studies, Moscow)
Crime, Custom and Ethnography among the North Caucasian Muslims

Christèle Dedebant
(EHESS Paris) 
Islamicate in Pakistan

Syrinx Hees
(Bonn)
“Islamic Art” in Modern Discourse. How is an “Islamic Code” Used in the Discourse on Art?

Farish Noor
(University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur)
Returning to the Future. The Rediscovery and Reinvention of the Islamic Civilizational Project in Malaysia as a Response to the Crisis of Globalisation and Secular Modernity

Cyris Schayegh
(New York University)
Engineering Homo Faber? Health Science and Work in the Formation of the Iranian Modern Middle-Class, 1910s–1940s. A Socio-Cultural History

Jamila Bargach
(Marocco)
Genealogies and Debates on Kafala, Adoption, and Abandoned Children

Robert Crews
(Princeton University)
The House of Islam in a Christian Empire: Religion, Law, and the State in Imperial Russia

Jan Goldberg
(St. Anthony’s College, Oxford)
Majalis al-Tujjar (1845–76) and Actor sequitur forum rei: Al-Khawaga Ya’qub al-Haddad v. al-Khawaga Markar (1855–56)

Hakan Karateke
(Burhanye, Turkey)
Changes in the Bases of the Ottoman Sultan’s Legitimacy, as Reflected in the Siyaset-name Literature (16th–20th Century)

Farish A. Noor
(University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur)
Returning to the Future. The Rediscovery and Reinvention of the Islamic Civilizational Project in Malaysia as a Response to the Crisis of Globalisation and Secular Modernity

Khaled Adham
(Cairo University)
Architectural (B)Order and Social Order: Postmodernity and the Socio-Urban Condition of the Production of Space in Late 20th Century Cairo

Abdallah Chanfi Ahmed
(Zentrum Moderner Orient)
​​​​​​Les Pratiques de l’«Islam populaire» face à la propagande des jeunes ulémas-wahhabito-frères musulmans aux Comores et en Afrique de l’Est

Zourabi Aloiane
(Central European University, Budapest)
The Kurds and the Caucasus: Cultural and Religious Links in Early Modern and Modern Period

Rahal Boubrik
(Université de Provence)
Traditional Religious Men and Political Power in Mauritania

Christoph Herzog
(Universität Heidelberg)
Ottoman Modernisation and Sunnite Dissent in Baghdad: The Cases of Abu t-Tana’ and Mahmud Šukri al-Alusi

Nabila Oulebsir
(EHESS, CNRS)
L’invention de l’occident musulman. Le rôle de l’École historique française d’Alger (1900-1962)

Abdallah Chanfi Ahmed
(Comoros)
Islam et modernité

Zeynep Aygen
(Mimar-Sinan-University Istanbul)
Public Participation in the Cities of Islam

Pardis Minucher
(Columbia University New York)
The Homeland from Afar: Experiences of Iranians in Istanbul from June 1908–1909

Stephan Rosiny
(Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
“Islamic Economy”. Theory and Practice of Hezbollah in Lebanon