The 31st Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI) was held in September 2024 under the title ‘Dynamics between Power and Society in Islam’. The UEAI is one of Europe’s long-standing scholarly societies, which has been bringing together lecturers and researchers from leading European universities every two years since 1962 through multi-day conferences to present their latest research in Arabic and Islamic studies. This year, the event was hosted by the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada).

The Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies was represented by Zoltán Szombathy, Zsuzsanna Csorba, István Lánczky, András Mércz, Gyöngyi Oroszi, and Mónika Schönléber, who gave the following presentations:

– Zoltán Szombathy: The Concept of Trust in Muslim Religious Discourse;

– Zsuzsanna Csorba: What to Expect When on the Road: Insights from Medieval Arabic Travel Regimens;

– István Lánczky: The Sharīʽa in Avicenna’s Political Philosophy;

– András Mércz: A Latin Bible in Muslim Hands;

– Gyöngyi Oroszi: Narrating the Humorous in The Thousand and One Nights;

– Mónika Schönléber: Narrating Conquests in the Northern Frontier Zone of the Islamic Empire.

The conference’s detailed programme and the presentations’ abstracts are here.