Anna Lindh Foundation

The Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies

National Network

Hungary

Address

PILISCSABA 2087 Fo ut 2/a Hungary

Country

Hungary

City

PILISCSABA

Street address 2

2087 Fo ut 2/a

Mobile Phone

36 20 224 1595

Telephone

36 20 224 1595

E-Mail

tuske@btk.ppke.hu

E-Mail (2)

Avicenna.kkki@t-online.hu

Year of Establishment

2002

Contact Person1

Dr. Laszlo Tuske

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Fields of Activity

Heritage

General Information

The Avicenna Institute is a non-profit research centre with the objectives of promoting scholarship in the field of Middle Eastern studies. The budget being strongly reliable on the variation of state’s and private funding is very limited. In this framework, several senior and junior researchers, and fellows are assuming and pursuing our aims. Among our projects are organizing public and international scientific workshops and conferences, publishing scientific monographs, conferences’ proceedings, granting scholarship for junior researches. We have solid connections with Hungarian and international research centres, such as Pazmany Peter Catholic University, University of Saint Joseph, Beirut and Instituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli

Mission and Objectives

The Institute was founded to fulfil threefold objectives: to conduct research for thorough understanding of Arabic, Persian and Turkish cultures, to advise decision-makers, media-actors and businessmen interested in Middle-East issues, to disseminate knowledge on current topics in on-going public debates to avoid misunderstandings in intercultural dialogue.

Main Projects / Activities

The institute works on several projects: - study the factors of continuity and discontinuity in Islamic legacy in the perspective of understanding the current development in the Islamic world, mainly in philosophy, theology, political sciences and literature, classical and modern, - organizing public and international scientific workshops and conferences to disseminate knowledge, - publishing scientific monographs, conferences’ proceedings, - granting scholarship for junior researches in PhD or post-doctoral dissertations.