OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium IV on Diverse Sciences in Islamic Civilization - Science in the Service of Knowledge

The DAAD Regional Office Cairo invites you to attend the 1st public lecture under the “ OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium IV: Science in the service of Islam” organised within the framework of the DAAD project “Clusters of Scientific Innovation in the Middle East and North Africa” (COSIMENA), and in cooperation with the Orient Institut Beirut (OIB), as part of the COSIMENA Call for Partnerships 2026.

Target Group

Researchers and scientists working in all science fields and the public.

Biography of Speakers

Prof. Dr. Jens Hanssen is a German-Canadian who received his PhD in Middle East History in 2001 from Oxford University for a thesis on late Ottoman Beirut. Hanssen has taught at the University of Toronto since 2002. In 2023, he became the 13th Director of the Orient-Institut Beirut.

Dr Yasmin Amin is an Egyptian-German who received her PhD in Islamic studies in 2021 from Exeter University’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, researching ‘Humour and Laughter in the Ḥadīth’. Her research covers various aspects of gender issues, early Muslim society and culture as well as the original heritage texts. Since 2022, she is the representative of Orient-Institut Beirut in Cairo.

Key information about the event

Date: Wednesday, 08^th April 2026

Time: from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (CLT)

Location: DAAD Regional Office Cairo (11- El-Saleh Ayoub Street, Zamalek, Cairo)

The event aims to shed light on the following perspectives

Engaging with the relationship between Islam and science
Shedding light on the rich diversity of scientific traditions across a vast region, from the Middle East and North Africa to South Asia and China, and across different periods of the Islamic Empire
Exploring how Muslim scholars made remarkable contributions to applied sciences