Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

 

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) is the only research institution in Germany that deals with the Middle East, Africa, Eurasia, South and Southeast Asia in an interdisciplinary and historically comparative perspective. The focus of research is the interaction of predominantly Muslim societies and their relationships with non-Muslim neighbouring regions.

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Solidarity Statement

ZMO Researchers' Statement on Israel and Palestine

Obituary Dr Abdalla Hanna

ZMO mourns the loss of Dr Abdalla Hanna (1932-2023). He was one of the most important Syrian historians of his generation.

Thinking with the South: Reframing Research Collaboration amid Decolonial Imperatives and Challenges

Out now: ZMO Studien No 44 edited by Andrea Fleschenberg, Kai Kresse and Rosa Cordillera Castillo

Islam West Africa Collection

New collaborative, open-access digital database that currently contains over 5,000 archival documents, newspaper articles, Islamic publications of [...]

Eugene Rogan: Material Life in Mid Nineteenth Century Damascus: Christian Compensation Claims After the 1860 Massacres

We cordially invite you to the third event of our ZMO Colloquium Winter Semester 2023/24 with Eugene Rogan.

Reason is a light which is certainly needed to illuminate the darkness, but it can also be useful in full daylight.

Mohammed Abed al-Jabri

Research

Age and Generation

The global increase in life expectancy brings about the reshaping of relations be- tween the generations. [...]

Environment and Justice

Human-environment re- lations in Asia, Africa and the Middle East are chang- ing at an ever-increasing [...]

Representations of the Past

In times of social crises and upheaval, as well as a lack of utopias and visions for the future, pasts [...]

Contested Religion and Intellectual Culture

How does religiosity interrelate with morality and intellectual culture? The research unit Contested [...]

Cross-Cutting, Exploratory and Supplementary Research

Research in this unit addresses questions of the overall programme and supplements it conceptually and [...]
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