Acknowledgements
This volume is the result of a NWO (the Dutch Research Council) Internationalisation in the Humanities research project “Engaging Europe in the Arab World: European missionaries and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850–1970)”, in cooperation with the IEG Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz, Germany) and the IISMM, Institut d’ études de l’ Islam et des Sociétés du monde musulman (Paris, France).
We would like to thank the Dutch Research Council for financing this research project, as well as the IEG Leibniz Institute of European History, the IISMM Institut d’ études de l’ Islam et des Sociétés du monde musulman and the Institut Universitaire de France for their financial and administrative support of the international workshops where some of the papers for this book were first presented and discussed. We would also like to thank Volda University College for their contribution to funding this publication.
We are grateful to many colleagues in Leiden, Mainz, Paris, and elsewhere who, through their contributions to conferences, workshops and through extended email conversations over the years, helped us to flesh out our questions, concerns, and approaches.