Contacts and Interaction: Proceedings of the 27th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Helsinki 2014

The Proceedings of the 27th congress of the Union Europeenne des

Arabisants et Islamisants (Helsinki, Finland, June 2-6, 2014) contain

forty-three scholarly articles on various aspects of the Islamic world

from late antiquity to modernity. The scholarly focus of most

contributions is the medieval Muslim civilisation. In addition to the

Arabic cultural sphere, the Persian and Turkish regions and sources are

represented in this collection of articles.
The studies discuss

social, political, literary, religious and cultural history. The variety

of approaches to the sources and methods employed shows the width of

European research on the Arab-Islamic culture. This volume provides an

easy access to the newest European scholarship on the Middle East.