The present MRSEI project will establish an international network of international institutions and European partners to respond to the project call: MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE INNOVATIVE TRAINING NETWORKS for 2017-2018 (Call identifier: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017 or H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018). For a number of years, the Institute for the Study of Islam and the Islamic World (IISMM-EHESS) and its Dutch equivalent, the Netherland Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies (NISIS), have collaborated on a partnership to establish annual spring doctoral schools on Islamic studies. Thanks to the support of French and Dutch institutes abroad, as well as the support of local partners each time, the spring doctoral schools in Tunis, Rabat, Madrid, Istanbul, and elsewhere have allowed each year about forty doctoral candidates working in history, anthropology, sociology, geography, archeology, art history, and even psychology, from France, the Netherlands, Indonesia, the host country, and, to a lesser extent, the rest of the world, to share their experiences, their sources, their methods, and their research questions around a central theme chosen beforehand by the organisers. In March 2016, the Department of Islamic Studies at the University of Marburg in Germany participated in the doctoral session that was held in Istanbul. The German Institute in Istanbul, the University of Koç in Turkey, and the French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA) were our local partners. The success of these sessions over the years has convinced us of the necessity to develop around this initial core a European-wide network for the study of Islam and Islamic societies for the digital age. This is especially pertinent at a time when public demand is particularly high for questions concerning Islam, when local access is often difficult, and as we see the development of digital tools that contribute to new approaches. The project that we and our new partners are planning to propose will orient research towards promising research themes that are undergoing theoretical, technical, and methodological renewal, by developing partnerships with university centres, as well as cultural actors (museums, libraries). This network will be made up of six main partners: The Institute for the Study of Islam and of the Muslim World (IISMM), housed within the EHESS The French National Institute for Art History (INHA) The Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies (Leiden, the Netherlands) The University of Marburg (Germany) The University of Bonn (Germany) The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Madrid, Spain) Secondary partners will include museums, libraries, political research institutes, universities… Many various disciplines will be represented within these institutions: history, art history, archeology, geography, anthropology, economics, political science, Islamic studies, linguistics… The general title chosen for the project is intentionally large: Islamic Studies in the Digital Age. It is comprised of five themes: Mobility and Migration Narrativity and cultural production Readings and the use of the past Contestation of authority and knowledge Material and visual culture We are requesting a budget of 3-4 M € to help in the creation of a network of young social science researchers working on Islam. This would finance 20-30 doctoral theses over four years, on themes that allow for a trans-disciplinary approach to the sources and in various fields, covering the entire history of Islam, as well as Islamic cultural societies.