The blended-learning MA program Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World is dedicated to the study of the extremely rich and diverse intellectual heritage of the medieval Muslim world. Unlike traditional academic approaches that tend to study this history according to separated and rather monolithic disciplines, this degree program systematically crosses disciplinary, religious, cultural and philological boundaries in order to gain new and innovative insights.

The overall goal of the one-year, English spoken MA program is to provide its international graduate students with a thorough understanding of the deep and manifold interconnections between the Muslim, Jewish and Christian intellectual output during medieval times. The program is thus characterized by a strongly research-driven and interdisciplinary approach. Students will become acquainted with a broad spectrum of aspects of the Islamicate world, such as rational theology and philosophy, law and legal methodology as well as material culture and social history with an emphasis on primary texts in the original language (Arabic). They will be trained and mentored by internationally renowned guest lecturers who are counted among the leading experts in their respective fields of research. The primarily web-based MA program also includes three face-to-face sessions per academic year, during which the students and teachers will actually come together for several days or a couple of weeks for discussion, teaching and examination.