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Dear friends and colleagues,

This week we would like to draw your attention to two recent publications, several job offers and a conference. We also want to remind you that due to the current COVID-19 circumstances all our group events are cancelled for the time being. To compensate for this, we want to make more use of our Member Area to continue the collaborative work. We will keep you posted. Stay healthy and take care of yourself and others!

If you have any content that you think suits the purpose of the weekly, please feel free to send it to us at multiple-secularities@uni-leipzig.de.

Publications by Mohammad Magout and Hans-Georg Ebert

Mohammad Magout, our Senior Researcher, recently published his book “A Reflexive Islamic Modernity: Academic Knowledge and Religious Subjectivity in the Global Ismaili Community“. He examines how a transnational Muslim minority, Nizari Ismailis, engages academically with itself in order to enhance its legitimacy, manage cultural differences, and adapt the religious subjectivities of its followers to conditions of doubt and uncertainty. Our Senior Research Fellow Hans-Georg Ebert published his book “Islamic Family and Inheritance Law in Arab Countries: Challenges and Reforms (Islamisches Familien- und Erbrecht der arabischen Länder: Herausforderungen und Reformen)“, in which he introduces the origin and development of Islamic family and inheritance law in the Arab countries.

CfP: Conference on Combat Term ‚Enlightenment‘

The interdisciplinary conference "Combat Term 'Enlightenment'. Intellectual Strategies and Transcultural Controversies" at Saarland University will take the epoch of the European Enlightenment in the 18th century as a starting point to explore discourses and practices of enlightenment in the various disciplines and fields up to the present day and put them into relation.

 30 September – 2 October 2020 at Saarland University
Deadline: 5 April 2020