Islamic studies. The intellectual and political conditions of a discipline

The Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society, founded in 1961, has long since acquired the reputation of an important meeting ground between scholars and intellectuals from different countries that allows them to lead controversial and also less controversial discussions in a hospitable environment. It took the German Oriental Society, founded in October 1845, roughly 120 years to establish such an institutional presence in the Arab World. The foundation of this institute symbolizes an..