📜📖 We are pleased to share a glimpse from our first lecture in the scope of the OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium IV, “Diverse Sciences in Islamic Civilization – Science in the service of Knowledge,” held at the DAAD Regional Office Cairo.
🎯 The event is organised within the framework of the DAAD project “Clusters of Scientific Innovation in the Middle East and North Africa” (COSIMENA), and in collaboration with the Orient-Institut Beirut, as part of the COSIMENA Call for Partnerships 2026.
🤝Bringing together esteemed scholars and critical thinkers, the lecture was filled with insightful discussions and rich presentations on the evolving relationship between science and Islam. While science is more related to experimentation, Islam draws upon faith and spiritual experience. Together, we highlighted how this relationship has shifted across history within Islamic civilization, what it meant to pursue knowledge within specific Islamicate contexts — what problems scientists and scholars were trying to solve, what social and institutional conditions shaped their work, what traditions they drew on and what they contributed to others, in addition to an emphasis on the geographical and cultural scope of Muslim scholars' contributions from the Middle East and North Africa to South Asia and China, and across different periods of the Islamic Empire.
🎤 We thank our esteemed speakers, Prof. Dr. Jens Hannsen from OIB-Institut Beirut and Dr. Yasmin Amin from OIB-Institut Beirut in Cairo, for opening the space for their insightful knowledge exchange on historical narratives and revisiting the relationship between science, Islam, and knowledge production across Islamic civilizations.
🔍 For further information about our upcoming events under the OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium IV, the COSIMENA project, and to subscribe to the COSIMENA network, please visit:
https://www.daad.eg/en/about-us/cosimena/
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us at: cosimena@daadcairo.org
