Call for Papers | ENIS Spring School 2026, “Islamicate Concepts: Between Particularism and Universalism”, Freie Universität Berlin, 14 - 17 April 2026 — Registration by : 13/03/2026

Concepts have long lost their innocence, not least due to post-modern and post-colonial critique. In the heydays of modernity, researchers tended to presume the universalism of key analytical concepts: every society was thought to have some form of state, some version of religion, art, literature, or science. All of those supposedly universal concepts have been unmasked to be historically formed – this notably applies to the very concept of ‘society’ as well (Zemmin, 2016). Moreover, concept...