1,328 search results for “anthropology of islam” in the Public website
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Call for papers: Islam (re-)Observed
In October, LUCIS and NIMAR will host a two-day workshop in honor of the 50th anniversary of Islam Observed, Clifford Geertz' comparative study of Islam in Morocco and Indonesia. Send in your proposal and get a chance to share your work in Rabat this fall.
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Yasmin Ismail
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
y.ismail@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Mediating Islam in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Performing Dakwah through Popular TV Shows
On the 9th of November Syahril Siddik successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Religion Explored: Origin, Function and Meaning
How do ideas concerning the academic study of religion relate to the socio-cultural and political context in which they are developed?
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Garbage matters: A comparative history of waste in East Asia
Cwiertka wants to investigate how waste is produced and disposed of in modern East Asian society. With her research group she will be carrying out a comparative analysis on two levels: the international level (between China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan) and the inter-regional level (between East Asia…
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Said Reza Huseini
Faculty of Humanities
s.r.huseini@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5329
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Authority and Control in the Countryside: From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century)
Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands.
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Hajj: Global Interactions through Pilgrimage
Every year, in the last month of the Islamic calendar, millions of Muslims from around the world come together in Mecca to perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that all capable Muslims should perform at least once in their lives. In 2013, the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden organised the exhibition…
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radicalisation and ‘everyday practices’: An analysis of extreme right and Islamic State women-only forums
A growing amount of literature is being devoted to interrogating gendered dynamics in both violent extremism and terrorism, contributing to the integration of international and feminist security. This includes how such dynamics can shape differences in the motivations and participation of women and…
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The anthropological signification of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in Visayas and Mindanao epics
This paper explores the long-term endurance of “breath” as a schema of personhood in the Austronesian-speaking world, from a comparative-ethnographic approach to the “Man with No Breath” figure featured in Philippine epics. This is one of two contributions from Myfel D. Paluga and Andrea Malaya M.…
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An anthropological rethinking of the Pintados and early tattooing in the Visayas, Central Philippines
In this paper, Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio and Myfel D. Paluga recast new light on the historical tattooing of the “Pintados,” or the the name by which the inhabitants of the Visayas Islands (in the central Philippines) were called by Spanish documenters in the sixteenth century. This is one of their…
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Sharia in the West
This research projects wants to know what Muslims in the West do and mean by ‘Sharia’, and how the Western legal system responds to that. The focus is on Sharia as an informal practice by Muslims in the West, i.e. other than through state law or state courts.
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Anticipating an unwanted future: euthanasia and dementia in the Netherlands
This ethnographic exploration of anticipation published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropology Institute draws on fieldwork among people with dementia and their families in the Netherlands.
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Being Muslim in Indonesia: Religiosity, Politics and Cultural Diversity in Bima
Muhammad Adlin Sila examines the range of ways Bima Muslims constitute their Islamic identities and agencies through rituals and festivals. In response to their surroundings, what it means to be a Muslim is constantly being negotiated.
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About the programme
To maximise your personal development, we ensure tutorials are small-scale and staff members extremely accessible. In year one, you’ll have an average of 12 contact hours, half of which comprise lectures (in English) and the remainder tutorials (optionally Dutch or English).
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Scholarly meetings
At LUCIS we offer a varied programme of scholarly meetings (conferences, workshops) which reflect our multidisciplinary and comparative view on Islam and Muslim societies in past and present.
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Rehanna Nurmohamed
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
r.a.nurmohamed.2@umail.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5200
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Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists Embrace and Mimic Islamic State’s Use of Emerging Technologies
This report concerns itself with terrorist technical innovation, particularly with regards to terrorists’ incorporation of emerging technologies into their practices. More specifically, it investigates, through the elaboration of a theoretical learning framework, how terrorist groups can adopt the practices…
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Call for Papers – Islam and Evolution
The Leiden University Shii Studies Initiative (LUSSI) is hosting a two-day online conference on Islam and Evolution.
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Ahab Bdaiwi
Faculty of Humanities
a.bdaiwi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1639
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Medical anthropology in Indonesia
A lively discussion on impact and society.
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Medical anthropology in Indonesia
A lively discussion on impact and society
- "Towards an Anthropology of AI in Islam" Public lecture by Bart Barendregt
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
k.j.cwiertka@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2599
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Between expectations and opportunities: urban youth navigating duress in a globalized southern Nigeria
This project looks at the ways in which youth in southern Nigeria navigate their lives in a context of experiencing long-term socioeconomic uncertainty and political insecurity (duress).
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Anticipatory Grief in Dementia: An Ethnographic Study of Loss and Connection
Natashe Lemos Dekker addresses the experiences of family members of people with dementia as they expressed their sense of gradually losing the person with dementia in the article 'Anticipatory Grief in Dementia: An Ethnographic Study of Loss and Connection' published in Culture, Medicine, and Psychi…
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About
LUCIS is an interfaculty knowledge centre offering a multidisciplinary and comparative view on Islam and Muslim societies.
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The Future is Elsewhere: Towards a Comparative History of the Futurities of the Digital (R)evolution
How did digital intermediality symbolise and facilitate the transfer of content from popular culture into policy statements and vice versa in the period between 1945 and the new millenium?
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Qur'ans of the Umayyads
A First Overview
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Annual conference
Until 2019, LUCIS organised an annual conference to highlight state-of-the-art research on a central theme within the academic study of Islam and society. Researchers from around the globe convened in Leiden to share and discuss their work.
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Weblogs and podcasts
Academic staff and students blog about their research and teaching.
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Library
Our library contains around 23,000 books, journals and historical documents under the care of a specialized librarian.
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Women at the Cutting Edge. Assessing the gendered impacts of industrial logging on well-being in Solomon Islands
How do women and men living in logging concessions in Solomon Islands experience the impacts of logging during and after logging operations? This project assesses how and why industrial logging affects men and women differently. Using insights from an ethnographic case-study of the logging industry…
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Waarom stichten jullie niet een eigen school?: religieuze identiteitsontwikkeling van islamitische basisscholen 1988-2013
On the 9th of June Bahaddin Budak successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Historical Muslim Societies
How did institutions and structures operate throughout the Muslim world from the earliest history of Islam into the early modern period?
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Join the NIMAR study trip to Morocco: Islam and citizenship
Are you a teacher (history, social studies, religion, philosophy, geography, etc.) and do you have questions about the relationship between citizenship and Islam? Consider joining NIMAR's study trip to Morocco.
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Framing Late Antique Religion
This research programme encourages the analysis of nascent Islam within the framework of religious studies.
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Arabic Studies
Dating back more than 400 years, Leiden University has the oldest continuous chair of Arabic outside the Arabic-speaking world. Today the MENA region is studied at Leiden from before the coming of Islam up to today from a wide array of disciplines. And Arabic is studied within the diverse linguistic,…
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Project Office IRP
Programme management of research programme “Strengthening knowledge of and dialogue with the Islamic/Arab world”
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Team profiles Project 0100
Meet Bart, Reza, Weiyan, James, Daphne and Yasmin.
- The Anthropology of the Anthropocene | Masterclass
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About this minor
Everything you need to know about the minor Islam: Religion and Society.
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Sandrine Gallois
Faculteit Archeologie
s.l.gallois@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6086
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Regional context changes Islamic law
Mahmood Kooria shows in his dissertation that Islam often adapts to the regional context. PhD defense 14 December.
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Wouter van Beek
Afrika-Studiecentrum
w.e.a.van.beek@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6641
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Leiden University Shi'i Studies Initiative (LUSSI)
Shiʿi Islam
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China: custom anthropological solution for a world power
Global versus local, democracy versus dictatorship, tradition versus modernisation: such contrasts make it difficult for anthropologists. They look in detail at what really happens and can therefore add some nuance to blueprints and debates, is what Frank Pieke, Professor in Modern China Studies, will…
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Publication series
LUCIS publishes two peer-reviewed book series, “Leiden Studies in Islam and Society” (Brill) and “Debates on Islam and Society” (Leiden University Press).
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Research programmes
LUCIS funded several research programmes to boost interfaculty and interdisciplinary cooperation and to widen the involvement of LUCIS members.
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Videos and MOOCs
LUCIS produces various video series and MOOCs to showcase the variety of expertise available at Leiden University.