Call for papers | Conference "Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE)", Leiden, 14-16 September 2026 — LIMITE : 01/02/2026

We invite proposals for the conference entitled ‘Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE)’ to be held in Leiden between 14-16 September 2026. In this conference, we seek to explore how particular ruins were interpreted, described, memorialised and utilised in the Islamic period, from 622-1800 – i.e. from the dawn of Islam to the onset of the philological and archaeological discoveries in the nineteenth century. The purpose of our conference is to explore ho...