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The senses of Islam

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Christian Lange

Principal Investigator

Gianni Sievers

Postdoc (since 2023)

Yusuf Unal

Postdoc (since 2023)

Suzanne Compagnon

Postdoc (since 2024)

Mira de Boose

Ph.D. Candidate (since 2024)

Ruth Verboom

Student Assistant (since 2024)

Arash Ghajarjazi

PhD Candidate (2017-2021)

Eyad Abuali

Postdoc (2017-2021)

Simon Leese

Postdoc (2020-2022)

Adam Bursi

Postdoc (2018-2021)

Dafne van Kuppelvelt

Research Engineer (2018-2019)

Janneke van der Zwaan

Research Engineer (2018-2019)

Maksim Abdul Latif

Research Assistant (2018-2019)

Yusuf Çelik

Research Assistant (2020-2021)

Events

26 Jan 2026 - 16:30

“The Muslim sensorium: From the Brethren of Purity to Muḥammad Farīd Wajdī”

9 Sep 2025

SENSIS Panels at the DOT 2025

22 May 2025

Conference: Sensing the Materiality of the Early Modern Islamic World

26 Jan 2025

Teylers Winter Lecture: Willem de Famars Testas (1834-1896) and the colours of Islam

13 Feb 2025 - 09:00

Conference: Sensescapes of War and Ritual in the Early Modern Islamic World, c. 1500-1800

17 Oct 2024

Conference: “Historicizing the Muslim Sensorium: Toward a Sensory History of Islam in the Early Modern World”

7 Oct 2023 - 19:00

Thinking Through Smell: Olfaction in Early Modern Near and Middle Eastern Intellectual History

12 Sep 2019

International Conference: Sufism and the Body

14 Nov 2019

SENSIS at the 2019 Middle Eastern Studies Association conference (New Orleans, 14-17 November)

26 Oct 2018

Workshop: The senses in the Qur’an and in early Islam

30 Nov 2017

Workshop on Digital Humanities in Islamic and Arabic Studies

Recent Posts

  • Talk by Christian Lange: The Muslim Sensorium: From the 10th-century Brethren of Purity to Muḥammad Farīd Wajdī
  • Talk by Dr. Babak Rahimi: Senses of Mourning
  • Sensory History Panel at ECSAS Heidelberg 2025
  • Talk by Dr. Fani Gargova: Synagogues as Sonic Spaces
  • SENSIS Panels at the DOT 2025

Sensis
The senses of Islam

Christian Lange
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Janskerkhof 13
3512 BL Utrecht
The Netherlands

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