The research group on Kinship and Community in the Early and Medieval Islamic Mediterranean met last week in Oxford (January 9-10, 2020). It was the second meeting of the group, after it had met for the first time in December 2018 in Haifa. As in the first meeting, sessions included joint readings and discussions of texts related to the tensions, interplay, and overlap between communal and kinship affiliations, as they show up in sources of diverse confessional backgrounds, linguistic and literary kinds, and geographical provenances. Brief summaries of the different presentations can be found here. The group is now planning its third and last meeting which will take place in Haifa around spring 2021 in the format of an international conference. Finally a big word of thanks and appreciation to Dr. Christian Sahner of the Oxford Oriental Institute for assisting in organizing the meeting in Oxford.