OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium IV on Diverse Sciences in Islamic Civilization - Science in the Service of Knowledge
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, 08th 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
Registration
To participate in the event, please register here: https://www.daad.de/surveys/962275?lang=en
Deadline for Registration: 01 April 2026
After your registration, the selected participants will receive a confirmation email with all the necessary information 3 days before the event.
