***Call for Papers*** ENSIE is pleased to announce its seventh biennial conference, to be held in Málaga, Spain, from 20 to 23 May 2026. This edition will explore the theme “Humans and Non-Humans”. All information at https://t.co/oVsoPghTVU!

***Publications*** ENSIE Secretary Liana Saif has recently contributed to A Sea of Sorcery, a roundtable on The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, organized by Shireen Hamza in collaboration with the Ottoman History Podcast. All contributions are available at https://t.co/ZqEpnFS435!

***Conferences*** This coming April, Fondazione Giorgio Cini is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on the evolving concept of academic freedom. Abstracts are due 15 January, 2026. Find all information at https://t.co/O1Yl9F3PCX!

***Publications*** In “Brief inventory of Manuscripts in Arabic Script Produced by Black Muslims in 19th-Century Brazil”, Fernanda Mendes provides a concise overview of these manuscripts and the existing scholarship on them. Find the full publication at https://t.co/uFpxiibIH2!

Correction: Deadline for Abstracts is 15 December 2025, of course!

***Conferences*** Of Priests and Sufis: Revisiting Catholic Scholarship on Islamic Mysticism, to be held at the Institut Dominicain d'Etudes Orientales, Cairo, 6-7 June 2026. Abstracts should be submitted by 15 December 2026. Find all information at: https://t.co/2pBRHL6AOX

Join ENSIE — the European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism! As a member, you’ll gain access to: 🔷A growing international network of researchers on Islam and esotericism. 🔷Conferences and events 📨Apply or learn more: https://t.co/etMEJ68BTT

***Conversations*** 'Aesthetics of the Political in conversation with Liana Saif'. Do not miss this event at Amsterdam University of the Arts on 27 October, featuring ENSIE Secretary Liana Saif (and warm soup)! Find all information at https://t.co/4KvwN9bC6V!

***Publications*** “The Tradition of Omar Ali-Shah in Latin America” by Mark Sedgwick explores La tradición/A tradição (“The Tradition”), a Latin American Sufi Group. Available at https://t.co/RrNTS55h9r.

***Exhibitions*** A 50-minute exhibition tour video with of the past exhibition “Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World”, starring curator Ladan Akbarnia, is now available on YouTube! https://t.co/8Mwm5PC2AI

“Hidden in Plain Sight” is a collaborative research project studying sacred books and scriptures. Their research strand ‘Talismanic Use’ looks at non-European sacred scriptures which were used as parts of rituals and embedded into statues and amulets. https://t.co/85DjcYdSiO

***Publications*** “Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire” by Marinos Sariyannis will appear on 4 December, 2025 https://t.co/wpwd7gWbXE

***Conferences*** The Al-Mahdi Institute is organising a workshop on “Esoteric Currents and Intellectual Tensions: The Ghulāt in Formative Shiism”, to be held in Birmingham from 9-10 February 2026. All information at https://t.co/AdJqGaTZIS!

New article by Travis Zadeh on 'Tracing the Sorcerer's Circle: Demons, Polysemy, and the Boundaries of Islamic Normativity', exploring the use of circles and circular diagrams in Islamic ritual magic. https://t.co/en17GuCB9U

***Publications*** Who doesn't like a Magic Trick? New Article on Perfomance Magic in the Middle Ages by Alex Metcalfe available at https://t.co/dmLYwwr27p!

***Publications*** Hot off the press: an article by Gulnaz Sibgatullina and Benjamin R. Teitelbaum on the Swedish philosopher, convert, and traditionalist Tage Lindbom. https://t.co/rqWYwyd3vi

Conference wrap-up of the 2025 ENSIE Meeting in conjunction with ESSWE10 in Vilnius 🥳: https://t.co/UQF4jf3boG https://t.co/mLHAsha9ob

***Conferences*** The Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabi Society and the Warburg Institute will host a symposium on “Mirrors of the Transcendent in the Cosmos of Ibn Arabi: The Body as Metaphor of Divine-Self Relation" on 25-26 July. More at: https://t.co/kvfYXG8RBE

***Positions*** Postdoctoral Position on “Transmission of Knowledge and the Classification of Sciences Tradition: situating Taşköprīzāde (d. 1561) in Ottoman Scholarly Culture” at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona! https://t.co/HU9j0dFajv

***Publications*** Congratulations to Ahmet Tunç Sen, who just published his first book “Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600”. Find more information and a link to a discount copy see https://t.co/lyEaKTNmY5!