Our researcher’s paper in Frankfurt
The 21st Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology was held between July 2nd and 5th, 2026. The society brings together researchers in the field of Islamic archaeology and art history. This year, the event was hosted by the Goethe University Frankfurt. The Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies […]
Our Colleague’s Research Trip to Cairo 2025
Between 30th September 2025 and 31st October 2025, our colleague, Gyöngyi Oroszi conducted scientific research at the Institut dominicain d’études orientales (IDEO) in Cairo. During this period, our researcher worked on her forthcoming monograph and, with the help of IDEO’s rich library resources, continued developing her current research project.
Our colleague’s research trip to Cairo
Between 2-30 September, 2025, Zsuzsanna Németh conducted scientific research at the Institut dominicain d’études orientales (IDEO) in Cairo. During her stay, she collected bibliographic material in the IDEO library for her doctoral research. The research trip made a significant contribution to the progress of her dissertation.
Our researcher’s presentation in Paris (2025)
On 13–14 May 2025, the Collège de France in Paris hosted the international conference entitled ‘From Letters to Digits: The Legacy of Arabic Manuscripts in Contemporary Studies’ (2nd Escorial Arabic Codicology Alumni Meeting). The event brought together scholars who had participated in one of the Arabic codicology summer courses held over the past decade in […]
Manuscript Workshop in Berlin
The „Material Aspects of Manuscripts of the Islamicate World, with a Special Focus on Bookbinding” workshop was held at the State Library of Berlin from 9–14 September, 2024. The organisers were the Berlin State Library, al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation and the Corpus Coranicum research project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. As part of the […]
UEAI 31st Conference in Granada
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 […]
Our Colleague’s Paper Given at the 7th MEMaT Workshop in Vienna
On May 16–17, 2024, the Institut für Mittelalterforschung (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) hosted the 7th Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions (MEMaT) workshop in Vienna. The MEMaT is a multidisciplinary project led by Sabine Schmidtke (Institute for Advanced Study) and George A. Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Study, Beth Mardutho) that studies manuscripts’ production, utilisation, and transmission. The […]
Our researcher’s book has been published 2024
Our colleague, András Barati’s book titled “Exercising Authority and Representing Rule: Eighteenth-Century Persian decrees from the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad” has been published by Brill. The book provides an in-depth look at early modern Persian diplomatics through the examination of Persian decrees from the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad, as well as […]
Colleagues of our Institute at a conference on the persecution of Christians over the course of history
On April 12, 2019, the Prime Minister’s Office, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Faculty of Military Sciences and Officer Training at the National University of Public Service organized the Keresztényüldözés a történelemben conference (International Conference on Christian Persecution over the course of History). Miklós Maróth and András Szenczi represented the Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies […]
Csorba Zsuzsanna’s lecture in Lisbon
The 46th Congress of the International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM) was held from September 3-7, 2018 by the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Lisbon. ISHM has been organizing conferences since 1920, the venue and theme of which changes biennially. One of the topics of the theme […]