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Lecture Series | Single Events | Exhibitions | Conferences and Symposia
Lecture Series
ZMO-Colloquium
Programme winter term 2009/10 
Programme summer term 2009
Programme winter term 2008/09
Thursday, 10 December 2009, 6 pm
Male Sociality Across the Indian Ocean
Lecture by Dr. Filippo Osella, University of Sussex, UK
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 6 pm
Money and Freedom. Promises and Concerns of
Migration among Mothers and Sons, Grooms and
Brides in Northern Egypt
Lecture by Dr Samuli Schielke, ZMO, Berlin
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
At Home in the World:
Globalizing Domesticity at the Sidon Girls School
Lecture by Prof Ellen Fleischmann, University of Dayton, USA
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
The Saudi Pot: Melting or Boiling!
National Identity, Power Structure and
Future Prospects in Saudi Arabia
Lecture by Prof Saad A Sowayan, King Saud University, Riad
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 6 pm, ZMO Towards a cultural history of Arab Nationalism: performance and popular action during Yasin al-Hashimi's funeral in Damascus in January 1937
Lecture by Dr Peter Wien, University of Maryland, curr. Fellow at ZMO
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 6 pm, ZMO Territorializing Piety: Genealogy,
Transnationalism, and Shi‘ite Politics in Modern Lebanon
Lecture by PhD Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr, University of Amsterdam, currently visiting scholar at ZMO
Thursday, 28 May 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
Is there a New Politics of Memory in the
Middle East?
Lecture by PhD Sune Haugbolle, University of Copenhagen, currently guest scholar at SFB 640
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
The Scarf Affair in Comparative Constitutional Debates: France, Germany and Turkey
Lecture by Prof. Seyla Benhabib, Yale University, New Heaven
Thursday, 26 March 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
‘There is a Spirit in that Image.’ Protestantism and Massproduced
Pictures of Jesus in Ghana
Lecture by Prof. Birgit Meyer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
Popularisation of ifta?
Media-Fatwas by Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Lecture by Bettina Gräf, ZMO
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
Play It Again Saraswathi: Gramophone and Religion in
Colonial South India
Lecture by Dr. Stephen Hughes, SOAS London
Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar 2009/10 ((every second monday)
November 9, 2009: Introduction - Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi
November 16, 2009: Munir Kamal Fakher Eldin (Majdal Shams;
Fellow of EUME 2009/10): The City, the Valley, and the Nation: on a
post-Ottoman ‘land settlement’ in Mandate Palestine, 1921-1948
December 7, 2009: Mark Levine (University of California, Irvine /
CMES Lund): Tel Aviv as a Colonial Post-Ottoman City
January 11, 2010: Ellinor Morack (FU Berlin, Berlin Graduate School
Muslim Cultures and Societies): The housing Question in Post-Ottoman
Izmir and the Population exchange with Greece, 1924-30
January 25, 2010: Nazan Maksudyan (Istanbul Technical University;
Fellow of EUME 2009/10): Changing Social Roles in Post-Ottoman Istanbul:
a Gendered Approach
February 8, 2010: Nabila Oulebsir (Université de Poitiers): French
City or Ottoman ? The Patrimonial Debate in 19th c. and early 20th c.
Algiers
April 19, 2010: Kirsten Scheid (American University in Beirut; Fellow
of EUME 2009/10): Erasure and Distortion: The Ottoman Memory in
Contemporary Beirut Art Production
April 26, 2010: Kyle Evered (Michigan State University): Ankara: the
Republican Urban Project and the Ottoman Heritage
May 10, 2010: Zeynep Celik (New-Jersey Institute of Technology): Colonial Algiers and the Ottoman Heritage: Planning, Architecture and
Governance
May 31, 2010: Zeynep Aygen (University of Portsmouth): ‘Life After
the Ottomans: Heritage and the New National Urban Narrative in
Post-Ottoman Cities of the Balkans’
June 14, 2010: Katherine Fleming (New-York University): Changing
Identities in Post-Ottoman Salonica
June 28, 2010: Sait Ozervarli (Yildiz Technical University): Intellectual
dimensions of continuity and transformation in post-Ottoman Istanbul
July 12, 2010: Conclusion - Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi
Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar 2008/09 (every second monday)
January 12, 2009: Cengiz Kirli (Bogaziçi University, Istanbul): “News and Popular
Opinions in Mid-nineteenth Century Ottoman Istanbul”
January 26, 2009: Mohsen Shuman (Zaqaziq University, Egypt): “Daily Life in
Ottoman Cairo: What Court Records Teach about Labour, Neighbourhood and
Family Relations”
February 9, 2009: Johann Büssow (Research Centre 586 “Difference and
Integration, “Universities of Leipzig and Halle-Wittenberg): “Street Politics in
Damascus: Popular Unrest during the Period of Egyptian Rule, 1831-1840”
February 16, 2009: Donald Quataert (State University of New-York at Binghamton):
“An Ottoman Rashemon and the Telling of History: the Coalfi eld Town of Eregli as
seen through a Corruption Court Case”
March 2, 2009: Fatiha Loualich (Algiers University): “Street Life in Ottoman
Algiers: Kinship, Property and Social Order”
March 16, 2009: Dalenda Largueche (Manouba University, Tunis): “Women’s
Daily Life in Tunis 18th and 19th Century: Gender Subordination and Justice
Negociation”
April 20, 2009: Johann Strauss (Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg): “Linguistic
Diversity and Everyday Life in Ottoman Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean and the
Balkans”
May 4, 2009: Selçuk Dursun (Istanbul, Fellow of Europe in the Middle East – The
Middle East in Europe 2008/09): “Wood for Living and Timber for Fraud: Everyday
Politics of Corruption in Trabzon in the late 19th Century”
May 18, 2009: Ismael Montana (Northern Illinois University, Fellow of Europe in
the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe 2008/09): “Ethno-Religious Contours
of West African Households in the Ottoman Regency of Tunis, 1738-1860s ca.”
June 8, 2009: Christoph Herzog (University of Bamberg): “Trivia of Late Ottoman
Daily Life”
June 23, 2009: Conclusive session of this academic year’s Ottoman
Urban Studies Seminar with a presentation Nora Lafi (ZMO): Writing the History of Everyday life in the
Ottoman Empire
Lecture series in WS 2008/09
at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
Insider und Outsider - Soziale Ein- und Ausgrenzung
in Geschichte und Gegenwart Südasiens
Next lecture:
Monday, 9 February 2009, 6 pm, Dorotheenstr. 24, 10117 Berlin, Room 1.506.
Medien und religiöse Minderheiten in Indien: Das Beispiel Islam
Lecture by Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
Monday, 26 January 2009, 6 pm, Dorotheenstr. 24, 10117 Berlin, Room 1.506.
Insider und Outsider in den indischen Literaturen der Gegenwart
Lecture by Dr. Hannelore Bauhaus-Lötzke and Maria Framke
Monday, 12 January 2009, 6 pm, Dorotheenstr. 24, 10117 Berlin, Room 1.506.
Inder in Berlin - Lebenswege, Erfahrungen und Weltsichten zwischen
Kaiserreich und Nationalsozialismus
Lecture by Dr. Heike Liebau und Dr. habil Joachim Oesterheld
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 6 pm, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, HS 3075
Denkmäler am Suezkanal von
Lesseps bis Fuad
Lecture by Prof. Klaus Kreiser
In context of the colloquium “Visualisierungen sozialer Ordnung”  by the Collaborative Research Centre 640
Monday, 22 June 2009, 6 pm, FU Berlin, Silberlaube, L113
Migration als postkoloniale Praxis
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Barbara Fritz and Dr. Knut Graw
In the context of the lecture series: "Die Ungleichzeitigkeit des Raums – Geschichte und Perspektiven der Area Studies"
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 6 pm, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10625 Berlin, Room 811
Das „Jüdische“ im marokkanischen Identitätsdiskurs
Lecture by Sophie Wagenhofer (ZMO)
In the context of Forschungskolloquiums des Instituts für Antisemitismusforschung
Thursdays, 2 pm in WS 2009/10, Universität Bayreuth, Raum S 120 (GW I, Main Campus)
AFRICA AND BEYOND: TRANSLOCAL PERSPECTIVES
Colloquium with different lectures, among others: Dr. Kai Kresse (ZMO), Dr. Nora Lafi (ZMO) and Dr. Chanfi Ahmed (ZMO);
for detailed information please check the programme
Single Events
Wednesday, 16. December 2009, 4 pm, FU-Berlin, Rost-und Silberlaube, Room K 23/11
Gewalt an Frauen, Erinnerung und Aufarbeitung: Bosnien-Herzegowina & Kurdistan-Irak im Vergleich
Lecture by Saima Mirvic Rogge and Karin Mlodoch
Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 8 pm,
GENERAL PUBLIC, Schönhauser Allee 167c
Cairoscape - Images, Imagination and Imaginary of a Contemporary Mega City
Lecture/Performance by Sherif El Azma within the Framework of the Book Presentation
Monday, 23 November 2009, 7 pm, Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin
The Dönme - Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
Book Presentation with the Author Marc David Baer
Friday, 20 November 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
Von der Peripherie ins Zentrum
der Weltliteratur: Istanbul im
modernen türkischen Roman
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Catharina Dufft, Universität Hamburg
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 6 pm, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, HS 3075
Denkmäler am Suezkanal von
Lesseps bis Fuad
Lecture by Prof. Klaus Kreiser
In context of the colloquium “Visualisierungen sozialer Ordnung” by the Collaborative Research Centre 640
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 8 pm, Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren
Berlin
Manual für den Kampf der Kulturen -
Warum der Islam eine Herausforderung ist
Bookpresentation and talk with the author Stefan Weidner and Sonja Hegasy (ZMO)
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 10 am, ZMO
Denkmäler in der Welt des Islam
Talk with Prof Klaus Kreiser and presentation by Prof Marc Baer (ZMO)
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 7 pm, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Room 0109
‘Baghdad, Yesterday.
The Making of an Arab Jew’
Lecture by Prof Sasson Somekh (Tel Aviv University)
Sunday, 24 October 2009, 2 pm, Werkstatt der Kulturen,
Wissmannstr. 32, Berlin
Intercultural Philosophizing: Potential and Perspectives
Lecture by Prof. Kwasi Wiredu, University of South Florida, Tampa;
jointly organised by ZMO and the Society for African Philosophy e.V.
Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 6.30 pm, ZMO
Terms of analysis in African Studies: do we need 'conceptual decolonisation’?
Roundtable Discussion
with Kwasi Wiredu (Tampa), J.D.Y. Peel (London), Ute Luig (FU-Berlin), Katrin Bromber (ZMO-Berlin), Andreas Eckert (HU-Berlin),
Moderation: Kai Kresse (ZMO)
 Audiodocumentation of the complete discussion 
Thursday, 15 October 2009, 6pm, ZMO
The Dilemma of Yoruba Islam in Contemporary Perspective
Lecture by Prof. J.D.Y. Peel, SOAS, University of London
Thursday, 22 September 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
Questions d’historiographie sur la mémoire et l’esclavage dans le monde arabe
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Salah Trabelsi
Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 7.30 pm, Institut für Sozialmedizin,
Luisenstr. 57, Berlin
“Weibliche Genitalverstümmelung
im Diskurs”
Bookpresentation and lecture by Anna Kölling
Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 7.30 pm, Institut für Sozialmedizin,
Luisenstr. 57, Berlin
“Am Schrein des roten Sufi”
Presentation and Reading with the Author Prof. Jürgen Wasim
Frembgen (Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München) and Prof. Stefan Weidner (FU Berlin)
Monday, 7 September 2009, 7 pm, Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren
Berlin (GWZ)
„When Israelis and Palestinians
Negotiate -- Challenging
Conventional Wisdom“
Lecture by Prof. Aaron Klieman, Venue: GWZ, Schützenstraße 18, Meeting Room 308,
10117 Berlin
Dienstag, 25 August 2009, 7 pm, Leipziger Laufladen, Leipzig
Die laufende Stadt – Breitensport in Addis Abeba
Lecture by PD Dr. Katrin Bromber (ZMO)
Friday, 7 August 2009, 9 am, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen,
Denmark
“Population displacements and forest resource management in the Ottoman Empire”
Presentation by Dr. Selcuk Dursun, ZMO/EUME; in the panel “Patterns of resource use in the Ottoman Empire in the
19th and early 20th centuries,” organized by Selcuk
Dursun at the First World Congress of Environmental History (WCEH
2009) hosted by The International Consortium of Environmental History
Organizations (ICEHO) and Roskilde University (Denmark) and Malmö
University (Sweden), 4-8 August 2009.
Saturday, 11 July 2009, 1.30 pm, ZMO
Open Day 2009
Events, Guided Tours and Program for Children around the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
Tuesday, 7 July 2009, 8 pm, Arsenal Cinema, Potsdamer Platz 2, Berlin
CASANEGRA, by Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, Marokko 2008, OmE, 110 min
Premiere of the motion picture with an introduction by Dr Sonja Hegasy
Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 2 pm, ZMO
Local Cultures –
Global Theories
with Dr Sadhana Naithani, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Thursday, 2 July 2009, 8 pm, Uqbar, Schwedenstr. 16,
13357 Berlin-Wedding
Screening: Message From Paradise #1
A documentary film by Daniela Swarowsky and Samuli Schielke (A/Fi/NL)
Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 7.30 pm, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
EX OKZIDENTE LUX - Zur „Kritik der arabischen Vernunft“ – eine Neuvermessung des euromediterranen Dialogs
Talk with Sonja Hegasy, ZMO, Gudrun Krämer, Islamwissenschaftlerin, FU Berlin, Stefan Weidner, Journalist, Autor, Vincent von Wroblewsky, Philosoph, Übersetzer Perlenverlag;
Presentation by Jörg Lau, Journalist, Die Zeit |
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Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 6.30 pm, Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle, Englischer Saal
Weltgewandt und Wortgewaltig. Neues von den globalen Perspektiven des Halleschen Pietismus. Ein internationaler Abend
Presentation of among others "Indische Mitarbeiter der Tranquebarmission (1706-1845)" by Dr. Heike Liebau (ZMO)
Tuesday, 16 Juni 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
Literatur und Erinnerung in der Türkei:
Vergangenheitsentwürfe in der türkischen
Literatur nach 1980
Lecture by Dr. Börte Sagaster, University of Cyprus,
Nikosia, and presentation
by Dr. Heike Liebau, ZMO
Monday, 15 June 2009, 8 pm, Arsenal Cinema, Potsdamer Platz 2, Berlin
Arabs and Terrorism
The ZMO and the researchprogram "Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe" presenting the opening night for the documentary film by Bassam Haddad (George Mason University), presentation by Sinan Antoon (EUME Fellow)
Wednesday, 3 June 2009, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Villa Jaffé, Wallotstr. 10
"Don't Immanentize the Eschaton!"
Lecture by Haggag Ali, Cairo University, Fellow of EUME 2008/09;
Presentation by Dyala Hamzah, ZMO
Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
Future of Mud: a Tale of Houses
and Lives in Djenne 
Public Film Screening with an Introduction and Commentary by the Co-Producer and anthropologist Trevor Marchand
The official teaser on youtube.com
Thursday, 19 May 2009, 7.30 pm, Zweitausendeins-Laden
Journalist Bettina Marx (Deutsche Welle) presents her new book:
„Gaza. Land ohne Hoffnung“
Talk with the author and PhD Katja Hermann
Documentation of the event on publicsolidarity.de
Monday, 11 May 2009, 4 pm, FU Berlin
Kosmopoliten im Geiste? Auf der Suche nach der Welt in der ägyptischen Provinz
Lecture by Dr. Samuli Schielke (ZMO) in context of the Socialanthropologic Colloquium at the FU Berlin
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
The Impact of the Discovery of the Cairo Geniza
on Oriental Studies
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Paul Fenton (Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne) and presentation by Dr. Sonja Hegasy
Monday, 27 April 2009, 7 pm, BBAW
Pflicht oder Wahl:
Zur Theologie und Politik der Verhüllung
muslimischer Frauen
Lecture by Ziba Mir-Hosseini, London
Venue: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Thursday, 23 April 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
A New Democracy and Many Old Wars: One Year of
Democracy in Pakistan
Lecture by Dr. S. Akbar Zaidi, Karachi, Pakistan
Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 7 pm, GTZ-Haus, Reichpietschufer 20, 10785 Berlin
Gewalt, Erinnerung und Aufarbeitung im Irak -
Anfal überlebende Frauen engagieren sich für eine Erinnerungsforum in Kurdistan-Irak
Event with among others Karin Mlodoch (ZMO)
Sunday, 29 March 2009, 4 pm, KKW Zossen
Der israelisch-palästinensische Konflikt
Discussion with Dr. Michael Kohlstruck (Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung der TU Berlin) and Dr. Sonja Hegasy (ZMO), Presentation by Georg-Heinrich von Eichborn, in the context of: 'Zossen zeigt Gesicht'
Venue: Kulturkraftwerk Zossen, Am Nottehafen 4, 15806 Zossen
Thursday, 3 March 2009, 7 pm, KörberForum, Kehrwieder 12, Hamburg
Der Mittelmeer-Raum: eine politische und kulturelle Einheit?
Talk with André David Azoulay (Anna Lindh-Foundation) and Sonja Hegasy (ZMO)
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 6 pm, OSI-Club
Reformdiskurse in Afrika und deren Bedeutung für die Entwicklung am
Beispiel Kenia
Lecture by Dr. Kai Kresse, ZMO
In context of the lecture series: Entwicklung in Afrika - Fortschritt oder Rückschritt?
Friday, 6 February 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
Annual lecture of "Gesellschaft zur Förderung des ZMO e. V."
Persische Sprache und vormoderne
Globalisierung
Lecture by Prof. Bert G. Fragner, "Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaft"
Friday, 30 January 2009, 6 pm, ZMO
New year's reception and opening of the exhibition 'Die Türkische Bibliothek'
Disclosure by Dr. Bettina Berns, Robert Bosch Stiftung
Pictures of the new year's reception
Wednesday, 21 Januar 2009, 5 pm, Villa Jaffé, Wallotstr. 10, 14193 Berlin
Between the City and the Empire
Lecture by Prof. Vangelis Kechriotis (Fellow of EUME) and presentation by Prof. Ulrike Freitag (ZMO)
Thursday, 8 January 2009, 5 pm, Centre Marc Bloch
How to write the history of colonization?
Some remarks on recent French
historiography
Lecture by Prof. Emmanuelle Saada, Columbia University,
New York
Wednesday, 7 January 2009, 5 pm, Villa Jaffé, Wallotstr. 10, 14193 Berlin
(Re)Conquest of the Forest
Lecture by Dr. Selcuk Dursun (Istanbul, Fellow of EUME 2008/09) and
presentation by Prof. Roger Chickering (Georgetown University; Fellow
of the Wissenschaftskolleg 2008/09)
Exhibitions
"Die
Türkische Bibliothek"
At ZMO from 2 February to 31 December 2009, on weekdays: 10 am to 4 pm.
Der Mensch im Mittelpunkt –
Impressionen aus Oman und Marokko
18 November 2008 - 31 January 2009
Photoexhibition by Eckhard Pfeiffer in Cooperation with the "Deutsch-Arabische Freundschaftsgesellschaft" (DAFG)
Reservation by phone: 030/20648888, DAFG-Geschäftsstelle,
Friedrichstr. 185,
10117 Berlin
Conferences and Symposia
26th to 28th November 2009, HU-Berlin
Transfer in Dispute. Controversial Representations of Cultural Borrowings in East Asia, the Arab World and Europe
Conference arranged by the Collaborative Research Center SFB 640, a. o. with Jörg Feuchter, Friedhelm Hoffmann und Bee Yun
from Thursday, 8 October 2009, Bonn
DAVO - Kongress 2009
Annual conference of the "Deutschen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient" (DAVO), a. o. with lectures by Dr. Steffen Wippel (ZMO) and PD Dr. Katrin Bromber (ZMO)
Friday, 24 July 2009, 4 pm, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Ritual praxis and its limits. Affectuality and the divinatory horizon in Senegal
and Gambia
Lecture by Dr. Knut Graw in the context of the conference "Feeling the Divine-Emotions in Religious Practice: Historical and Cross-Cultural Approaches"
Venue: Lentzeallee 94,
14195 Berlin
13 to 14 July 2009, from 9 am, ZMO
How to talk about the non-Muslim experience in the Ottoman society:
From narrating community life to integrating plurality
Workshop convened by
Vangelis Kechriotis (Fellow of Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe, Berlin)
26 to 27 June 2009, from 9 am, ZMO
Vivre en transit et cosmopolitisme vécu par le bas
Workshop by Dalila Nadi (ZMO) and Steffen Wippel (ZMO)
June 11-12, 2009, ZMO
Gendered Memories:
Cultural Representations, Local Practices, and
Transnational Regimes in the Middle East and
North Africa
Workshop arranged by SFB 640 , the University Zürich and the ZMO, in cooperation with the Georg-Eckert-Institut
Tuesday, 26 May 2009, German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London
South Asian Experiences of the World Wars: New Evidence and New Approaches
International Workshop arranged by the SOAS , the German Historical Institute London and the ZMO
7 May 2009, 7.30 pm, Simon-Bolivar-Saal
Making Muslim Futures in Europe: Religious Knowledge & Politics
Keynotelecture by Peter P. Mandaville
of the conference"Living Islam in Europe: Muslim Traditions in European Contexts“
Tuesday, 21 April 2009, 10 am to 4 pm, ZMO
Gewalt, Erinnerung und Aufarbeitung im Irak –
Anfal überlebende Frauen in Kurdistan-Irak engagieren sich für eine
selbst gestaltete und verwaltete Gedenk- und Begegnungsstätte
Workingchat with among others Karin Mlodoch (ZMO)
Previous registration is required.
11 to 13 March 2009, 9 am, ZMO
Migration at Home -
Migratory Imaginations and Imaginary
Cosmopolitanisms in Africa and Beyond
Workshop by Dr. Knut Graw (ZMO) and Dr. Samuli Schielke (ZMO)
6. to 7. December 2008, ZMO
Contemporary Modes of Global Muslim Missionary Activity:
The Tablighi Jama'at Revisited
Workshop by Dr. Dietrich Reetz und Dr. Marloes Janson
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