2,057 search results for “anthropology of islam” in the Public website
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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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Decolonizing European Anthropology?
As convener for the EASA Network for the Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity, Jasmijn Rana organized a two-day symposium on Decolonizing European Anthropology. It brought together anthropologists from different European countries and non-European anthropologists working in and on Europe. Discussions…
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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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POSTPONED - Gastro-Politics & Gastro-Ethics of Diversity: Negotiating Islam in an Entangled World
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Veni grant for Mahmood Kooriadathodi: Can Islam be Matriarchal?
One of the major stereotypes about Islam is that it is very male-dominant and women-oppressive, but is Islam really that patriarchal? Mahmood Kooriadathodi has been awarded a 250.000 euros Veni grant for his project ‘Matriarchal Islam: Gendering Sharia in the Indian Ocean World’.
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Feminist fatwas of female Islamic scholars
It matters a lot whether a fatwa is given by a female or male Islamic scholar, discovered doctoral student Nor Ismah.
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Ahab Bdaiwi
Faculty of Humanities
- "Towards an Anthropology of AI in Islam" Public lecture by Bart Barendregt
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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.
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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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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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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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Qur'ans of the Umayyads
A First Overview
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Anthropology of health and care in Indonesia
Debate, Roundtable
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Team profiles Project 0100
Meet Bart, Reza, Weiyan, James, Daphne and Yasmin.
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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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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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About this minor
Everything you need to know about the minor Islam: Religion and Society.
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Researchers from Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Sandrine Gallois
Faculteit Archeologie
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Wouter van Beek
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Anthropology of Asia at Leiden Update
Conference, Network event
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Leiden University Shi'i Studies Initiative (LUSSI)
Shiʿi Islam
- The Anthropology of the Anthropocene | Masterclass
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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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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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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.
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Matters of Humanities
‘Islam and Muslims are not something that happened to Europe; they are part of Europe. In fact, Islam is one the biggest constants in European history,’ argues Professor Maurits Berger in the new eight-part Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe podcast series of the Leiden University Faculty…
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Thijs Jan van Schie
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Rosalinde Spitters
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Janine Prins
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Soukaina Chakkour
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marijke van Kester
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Raymond Corbey
Faculteit Archeologie
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Book presentations
Now and then we organise book launches to present the latest publications, both academic and popular, in our broad field.
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Publications
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 themes
LUCIS’ research on Islam and society is guided by three overarching themes, which are fundamental to our research programmes.
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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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