The Senses of Islam: A Cultural History of Perception in the Muslim World

Project Information

SENSIS

Grant agreement ID: 724951

DOI 10.3030/724951

Project closed

EC signature date 22 March 2017

Start date 1 September 2017

End date 31 August 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 000 000,00

EU contribution € 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Netherlands

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

“You were not commanded to stroke it, but to pray nearby it”: debating touch within early Islamic pilgrimage

Author(s): Adam Bursi
Published in: The Senses & Society, Issue 17.1, 2022, Page(s) 8-21, ISSN 1745-8935
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2021.2020604

The senses of cholera: transformations of gustation and olfaction in 19th-century Iran

Author(s): Arash Ghajarjazi
Published in: The Senses & Society, Issue 17.1, 2022, Page(s) 109-126, ISSN 1745-8935
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2021.2020629

"""What no eye has seen and no ear has heard"": Towards a sensory history of early Islam"

Author(s): Christian Lange
Published in: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, Issue 51, 2021, Page(s) 245-292, ISSN 0334-4118
Publisher: Max Schloessinger Foundation

Al-Jāḥiẓ on the senses: Moderate sensualism and Muslim synaesthesia

Author(s): Christian Lange
Published in: The Senses & Society, Issue 17.1, 2022, Page(s) 22-36, ISSN 1745-8935
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2021.2020605

Introduction: Islamic sensory history

Author(s): Christian Lange
Published in: The Senses & Society, Issue 17.1, 2022, Page(s) 1-7, ISSN 1745-8935
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2021.2020603

Connoisseurs of the senses: tobacco smoking, poetic pleasures, and homoerotic masculinity in Ottoman Damascus

Author(s): Simon Leese
Published in: The Senses & Society, Issue 17.1, 2022, Page(s) 90-108, ISSN 1745-8935
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2021.2020616

Visualizing the soul: Diagrams and the subtle body of light (jism laṭīf) in Shams al-Dīn al-Daylamī’s The Mirror of Souls (Mirʿāt al-arwāḥ)

Author(s): Eyad Abuali
Published in: Critical Research on Religion, Issue 9, 2021, Page(s) 157-174, ISSN 2050-3032
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/20503032211015299

“I tasted sweetness, and I tasted affliction”: pleasure, pain, and body in medieval Sufi food practices

Author(s): Eyad Abuali
Published in: The Senses & Society, Issue 17.1, 2022, Page(s) 52-67, ISSN 1745-8935
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2021.2020607

Words Clothed in Light: Dhikr (Recollection), Colour and Synaesthesia in Early Kubrawi Sufism

Author(s): Eyad Abuali
Published in: Iran, 2019, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 0578-6967
Publisher: British Institute of Persian Studies
DOI: 10.1080/05786967.2019.1583046

The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny

Author(s): Arash Ghajarjazi
Published in: Iranian Studies, 2019, Page(s) 1-6, ISSN 0021-0862
Publisher: Society for Iranian Studies
DOI: 10.1080/00210862.2018.1562288

Dreams and Visions as Diagnosis in Medieval Sufism

Author(s): Eyad Abuali
Published in: Journal of Sufi Studies, Issue 8/1, 2020, Page(s) 1-29, ISSN 2210-5948
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/22105956-12341313

Scents of Space: Early Islamic Pilgrimage, Perfume, and Paradise

Author(s): Adam Bursi
Published in: Arabica, Issue 67, 2020, Page(s) 1-34, ISSN 0570-5398
Publisher: Brill

Are you sure your tool does what it is supposed to do? Validating Arabic root extraction

Author(s): Janneke van der Zwaan, Maksim Abdul Latif, Dafne van Kuppevelt, Melle Lyklema, Christian Lange
Published in: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2019, ISSN 2055-7671
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqz045

Connecting the Dots: Diacritics, Scribal Culture, and the Qurʾān in the First/Seventh Century

Author(s): Adam Bursi
Published in: Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association, Issue 3, 2018, Page(s) 111-157, ISSN 2474-8390
Publisher: Longwood

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind: Light and luminous being in Islamic theology

Author(s): Christian Lange
Published in: Critical Research on Religion, Issue 9, 2021, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 2050-3032
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/2050303220986975

Text mining Islamic law

Author(s): Christian Lange,Maksim Abdul Latif, Yusuf Çelik, A. Melle Lyklema, Dafne van Kuppevelt, and Janneke van der Zwaan
Published in: Islamic Law and Society, Issue 28.3, 2021, Page(s) 234-281, ISSN 1568-5195
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15685195-bja10009

Book chapters (5)

Follow the Light: Adriaan Reland (1676-1718) on Muhammad

Author(s): Christian Lange
Published in: Bart Jaski, Christian Lange, Anna Pytlowany and Henk van Rinsum (eds), The Orient in Utrecht: Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Early Modern Humanist, Philologist and Scholar of Religion, 2021, Page(s) 65-90, ISBN 978-90-04-46217-5
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004462175_005

Qurʾānic anosmia

Author(s): Christian Lange
Published in: Non sola scriptura: Essays in honour of William Graham, 2022, Page(s) 23-43, ISBN 9781003252221
Publisher: Routledge

Het islamitische recht digitaal bekeken

Author(s): Christian Lange
Published in: Joas Wagemakers and Lucien van Liere (eds), Wie is er bang voor religie? Waarom kennis van religie belangrijk is, 2019, Page(s) 188-194
Publisher: Parthenon

Beards of paradise: Hair in the Muslim Eschaton

Author(s): Christian Lange
Published in: Youri Volokhine, Bruce Fudge and Thomas Herzog (eds), Barbe et barbus. Symboliques, rites et pratiques du port de la barbe dans le Proche-Orient ancien et moderne, 2019, Page(s) 119-129
Publisher: Lang

Torture and Public Executions in the Islamic Middle Period (11th to 15th Centuries)

Author(s): Christian Lange
Published in: Philip Dwyer and Joy Damousi (gen. eds.), The Cambridge World History of Violence, vol. 2, AD 500–AD 1500, 2020, Page(s) 164-184
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Techniques of the senses: 19th-century media and Shiism in Iran

Author(s): Arash Ghajarjazi
Published in: Quaestiones infinitae, Issue 135, 2021, Page(s) 1-298
Publisher: Utrecht University
DOI: 10.33540/976

Other (4)

Smelling Sacred Spaces: Pilgrimage Practices and Olfactory Experiences in Early Islam

Author(s): Adam Bursi
Published in: Utrecht Religie Forum Webblog, 2019
Publisher: Utrecht University

“If you can help, then do it!’ Discussions of Health and Medicine in Late Antique Religious Communities

Author(s): Adam Bursi
Published in: Utrecht Religie Forum Webblog, 2020
Publisher: Utrecht University

The media ecologies of Shia clergy: a short reflection on the co-evolution of religion and media in nineteenth-century Iran

Author(s): Arash Ghajarjazi
Published in: Utrecht Religie Forum Webblog, 2020
Publisher: Utrecht University

The Facial crisis of Shiite Iran

Author(s): Arash Ghajarjazi
Published in: Religious Matters Webblog, 2020
Publisher: Utrecht University