Research

Research Programme 2025-2029

ZMO's main research programme is entitled Thinking through Translocal Entanglements: Perspectives from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. It investigates historical and present socio-economical dynamics and cultural developments from the 16th century to the present with a particular focus on perspectives from the Islamicate world. This is always done in consideration of local and translocal practices and against the background of global networks.  While the main research programme was divided into four thematic groups in the first phase from 2020 to 2024, it will be continued in three thematically more open units from 2025 onwards.