Conferences

2026
Conference at the Kairouan Islamic Studies Center in Tunisia (February 2026)
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2025
Third International Conference at the Arabic Language Academy in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (November 2025)
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International Symposium, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris (May 2025)
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Global Forum: Human Education in the Third Millennium, Bengaluru, India
(February 2025)
The Global Forum 2025, "Reimagining the Education of Humanity for the Third Millennium," took place at Azim Premji University in Bengaluru, India, February 13 to 15, 2025, with a view to reimagining education for the future. The Forum was attended by 160 participants from 27 countries on all inhabited continents. [Closing Statement] [Website]


2023
First International Conference at the Arabic Language Academy in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (Fall 2023)
[more] [Program] [Article (in Arabic)] [Video]


2021
International Conference, "Ignaz Goldziher and His Correspondents: Islamic and Jewish Studies around the Turn of the Twentieth Century" (Göttingen, Princeton and Budapest; online, November 12–13, 2021) [more] [Program]


2018
Islamic Studies at the University of Göttingen and the al-Abbasiyya Shrine (Göttingen, October 8–10, 2018) [more] [Program]

International Symposium, "Ethical Instruction as Educational Discourse: Thought and Impact of the Classical Muslim Thinker Miskawayh (d. 1030)" (Göttingen, May 24–27, 2018)

Göttingen Lecture, "Miskawayh: The Uneasy Coexistence of the Philosopher and the Historian?" by Professor Dr. Wadad Kadi, University of Chicago (Göttingen, May 24, 2018) [Video]


2013
Collaborative Workshop "Teaching Ethics and The Ethics of Teaching" (Cairo and Alexandria, March 17–21, 2013) [more]


2012
International Workshop, "Magie im Islam: Zwischen Glaube und Wissenschaft" (Göttingen, July 11–13, 2012) [more]


2011
International Congress, "Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Historical Foundations & Contemporary Impact" (Göttingen, October 1–5, 2011) [more] [Program]

International Workshop, "Representations and Visions of Homeland in Modern Arabic Prose Literature and Poetry" (Göttingen, June 30–July 1, 2011) [more]


2009
International Symposium, "Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam" (Göttingen, May 27–31, 2009) [more] [Program]