Tetiana Kalenychenko and Denys Brylov are both 2022/2023 non-resident Prisma Ukraïna Fellows at the Forum Transregionale Studien.
By Regina Elsner. Russian Orthodoxy is often suspected to be pre or anti-modern because of its difficulties engaging with a plural and secular society – for example, when relating to democracy, human rights, or gender diversity. After the end of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church associated increasingly with the agenda of the political elites in Russia and other successor states of the Soviet Union.
By Khadija Mohamed Embaby and Amira Mittermaier. In times of profound uncertainty, what does God offer to believers? And how does uncertainty affect believers’ ideas about, and relations to, God?
By Adam Mestyan. Some years ago I came across a fragmented, nineteenth-century Arabic manuscript in Cairo. The work, The Garden of Ismail’s Praise, caught my eye as one of a number of compositions written in praise of Ismail Pasha (r. 1863–1879), the “khedive”, or Ottoman governor, of Egypt.
By Razak Khan This article is part of the TRAFO Series “40 Years After Orientalism”. I emphasize in it accordingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the...
By Regina Elsner Lucian Leustean (ed.), Forced Migration and Human Security in the Eastern Orthodox World. London: Routledge, 2019, 312p, ISBN 9780815394709, £96. In 2018, Ulrich Schmiedel and Graeme Smith observed...
Hans-Peter Pökel joined the Orient-Institut Beirut as a research associate in 2014. Previously, he worked as a Junior Lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin where he taught Classical Arabic literature and...
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