The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) of Jerusalem is a national institution devoted to academic research. Located at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on the Edmond J. Safra campus at Givat Ram, the IIAS is a self-governing body, both in its administrative function as well as its academic pursuit.
The primary function of the Institute is to encourage and support collaborative research. Along with collaborative Research Groups, the Institute annually hosts six Advanced Schools as well as many conferences.
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APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2022-23
Applications are now open for Research Groups and Individual Fellowships at the IIAS for 2022-23.
Click here for information on the application process for Research Groups, and a link to the application form.
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The Open Calls for Research Groups and Individual Fellowships can be found here.
Uriel Simonson (University of Haifa) and Luke Yarbrough (UCLA), organizers of the 2020–21 IIAS Research Group “Cultural Brokerage in Pre-modern Islam,” are celebrating the publication of a new book that they co-edited with Nimrod Hurvitz (Ben Gurion University) and Christian Sahner (University of Oxford).
Their book, Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook, contains 57 primary-source passages that shed light on processes of conversion across the first millennium of Islamic history. The selections are introduced and translated, from a dozen languages, by more than forty leading scholars.
The co-editors have contributed sweeping introductions on conversion to Islam as a historical phenomenon spanning eras and far-flung locales.
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