Workshop | "What is Islam About: Concept and Conceptualization of Islam from an Interdisciplinary Perspective" — Goethe-University Frankfurt, 21-22 February 2025

The terms ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslims’ are part of our scientific discussions and social reality. We conduct research on Islam in the past and the present and study texts, artefacts and people in various disciplines from different perspectives and in many places. A preliminary overview of research shows that the two terms signify different things both within different disciplines and in exchanges between them. Nevertheless, the various academic fields seem to share several premises: Muslims are oft...