"RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies (Early Islam)"
The Center for Advanced Study brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines working on Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity with a focus, but not exclusively, on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa during the first millennium CE. The overall aim of the Center is to explore new approaches to Romanization and Islamication in this period and to set the scholarly debate in this field on a new footing.
The theme of the Center’s upcoming last year is ‘The Entanglement of Islamication, Urbanisation, and Trade’. Welcome are papers that connect the previous annual themes of the Center so as to explore the regional settling down of the respective imperial modes on a comparative, intercultural level. Annual themes comprise: Imperial Structures and Representations; Imperial Religion versus Local Beliefs; Transforming Cities; and Architecture and Materials of Prestige. A particular accent on theoretical or methodological issues that can foster comparison between the Late Roman and Early Islamic empires is also appreciated.