International conference "Historicizing the Muslim Sensorium: Toward a Sensory History of Islam in the Early Modern World" — Utrecht University, 17-18 October 2024

This conference brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to advance the history of the senses inthe early modern Islamic world (c. 1500-1900). We will explore how Muslims across different historical, geo-graphical, social, and intellectual contexts experienced sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. What does Is-lamic sensory history teach us about the “gunpowder empires” of the Ottomans, the Safavids, and theMughals that conventional history does not? Information and programme:...