We are delighted to announce that the call for papers for the esteemed III International Colloquium “Islamic Mysticism in al-Andaluz: Gnosis, Norm and Transgression” is now open until April 30, 2024. We cordially invite you to contribute your valuable insights to this prestigious event.

This Colloquium will take place online on the 2nd and 3rd of July 2024 and will seek to move towards gnosis through the confrontation, harmonious or not, between the social norms of external and public discipline, on the one hand, and internal spiritual realities that obey other values ​​that, at certain moments, challenge, surpass, and subvert the norm.

We eagerly await your insightful proposals, which should be sent to the following emails: antoniorei@fcsh.unl.pt and pilargarrido@um.es. Your contributions are highly valued and will enrich the discourse at our Colloquium.

Organized by the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM / NOVA FCSH) and the Arqueología, História y Património del Mediterráneo Occidental Research Center of the University of Murcia (ARHIS / UMU), this is the third in a series of International Colloquiums focusing on Islamic Mysticism in al-Andalus, which has been ongoing since 2022.

The first Colloquium, “Islamic Mysticism in al-Andalus: Texts and Contexts” (Lisbon, November 2022), focused on sources, authors, cultures, sociologies, and diachronies, and the second, “Islamic Mysticism in al-Andalus: Gnosis, Symbol and Metaphor” (Murcia, September 2023), addressed textual, connotative and symbolic structures of literary and artistic sources, and the respective symbolic vocabularies and idiosyncrasies associated with them, as instruments for gnosis.