1,042 search results for “islamic spirituality and mysticism shiism” in the Public website
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Interpreting Islam from Inside and Outside
Muslim scholars work in a long and rich tradition of knowledge-production in their own culture.
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Arabic & Islamic Studies
Research projects which are assisted by the NVIC in the field of Arabic studies.
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Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000)
What made the early Islamic empire so successful and have we missed the story by neglecting crucial evidence? The 7th-century Arab conquests changed the socio-political configurations in the Mediterranean and Eurasia forever. Yet we do not really know how the Arabs managed to gain dominance of this…
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Epistemological Inquiry into Islam’s Moral Economic Teachings, Legal Discourse, and Islamization Process
Mr. S. Al Daghistani defended his thesis on 30 November 2017
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Islam, Colonialism and the Modern Age in the Netherlands East Indies
A Biography of Sayyid ʿUthman (1822–1914)
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Matrilineal Islam: State Islamic Law and everyday practices of marriage and divorce among people of Mukomuko-Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia
On 13 December 2023 Alf Farabi successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Representations of Everyday Islam in Europe: Scholars and the ‘Real World’
What forms does Muslim religiosity take in daily life? What is the relation between representations of Islam and Muslims by scholars and the views that exist in the ‘real world’?
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Faith in Democracy. Justice, Politics and Transcendence
This book explores the spiritual potential of faith, mysticism and transcendence in answer to the dangers of a mythologised state and the sacro-sanctification of (liberal) democracy and its rule of law.
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John Islam-van Klinken
ICT Shared Service Centre
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LUCIS - Centre for the Study of Islam and Society
LUCIS promotes high-quality research on Islam and Muslim societies and actively communicates the insights and findings of that research to the larger public.
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Staring at the heavens: Astronomy in medieval Islam
University Lecturer Ahab Bdaiwi:
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The formation of Islam: The view from below
By examining the impact of Islam on the daily life of those living under its rule, the goal of this project is to understand the striking newness of Islamic society and its debt to the diverse cultures it superseded. Questions will be the extent, character, and ambition of Muslim state competency at…
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Islam in Central Asia: Shrines along the Silk Road
This programme examines cultural space, national identity and the politics of tangible and intangible heritage in Islamic Central Asia.
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Edmund Hayes
Faculty of Humanities
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Islam in North Africa: A Critical Return to Youth
In recent years, and especially since the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011, a growing body of research, media reporting, and scholarly literature has focused on the role of ‘Arab youth’ as the drivers of social and political movements across the Middle East and North Africa.
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One Among Zeroes |0100| Towards an Anthropology of Everyday AI in Islam
The |0100| Project studies the discourses, practices and imaginaries of Islamic information society’s most debated component- Artificial Intelligence- using multimodal and mixed methods and comparing and contrasting narratives and imagery of AI-religious-futures in Muslim Southeast Asia.
- Daring questions in Islam
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Drone imagery in Islamic State propaganda: flying like a state
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the Islamic State's use of images taken by drones, drawing on a dataset of ISIS propaganda images from October 2016 to December 2018.
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Nico Kaptein
Faculty of Humanities
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Islamic courts and women's divorce rights in Indonesia: the cases of Cianjur and Bulukumba
This book presents the results of a research about the Islamic courts of Cianjur in West Java, and Bulukumba in South Sulawesi and the role they play in local divorce practices.
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Alireza Asghari
Faculty of Humanities
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Understanding Dutch converts to Islam: On turbulent trajectories and (non-) involvement in jihadist movements
This study focuses on increasing our understanding of the different pathways converts take during conversion to Islam.
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Islam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll
Islam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization.
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Rewriting Yusuf. A Philological and Intertextual Study of a Swahili Islamic Manuscript Poem
The present monograph, spanning a wide range of world and local literatures represents a high academic standard of both literary criticism and philological analysis. By demonstrating her expertise as an Africanist conversant with the Arabic canon, Raia reveals how the narrative of Joseph has been re-narrated…
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Jan Just Witkam
Faculty of Humanities
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One Among Zeroes |0100| Towards an Anthropology of Everyday AI in Islam
The |0100| Project studies the discourses, practices and imaginaries of Islamic information society’s most debated component- Artificial Intelligence- using multimodal and mixed methods and comparing and contrasting narratives and imagery of AI-religious-futures in Muslim Southeast Asia.
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Crete as melting pot: research into Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Islamic material culture at Gortyn, Greece
What does the excavated material tell us about the continuation and/or change of urban life during the transitional phrases from Antiquity to the Middle Ages on Crete and in the eastern Mediterranean more generally?
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Re-Presented Pasts: Uses and Re-Uses of the Past in Pre-Modern Islam
A platform to research memory and culture in the Muslim world. This programme explores the ways modern memory studies methodologies can be applied to pre-modern Muslim societies to reveal the uses of the past and senses of tradition in diverse contexts of Muslim thought.
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Women issuing fatwas: female Islamic sholars and community-based authority in Java, Indonesia
On 12 January 2023 ms. Nor Ismah successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Languages of Islam and Christianity: Institutional Discourses, Community Strategies and Missionary Rhetoric
On February 20th, Gulnaz Sibgatullina succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Gulnaz on this great result.
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Teachers and lecturers broaden their perspective of Islam
Islam can be a difficult or sensitive subject to discuss with pupils, regardless whether they are Muslim. Fourteen secondary-school teachers and university lecturers went on a fact-finding trip to Morocco accompanied by experts from NIMAR (the Netherlands Institute in Morocco). What did they learn from…
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'Authentic Islam': The Religious Profile of Taqī al-Dīn al-Hilālī (1893-1987) as Reflected in his Fatwas
Abdessamad El Amraoui defended his thesis on 6 Mai 2015.
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Philippine Confluence: Iberian, Chinese and Islamic Currents, C. 1500-1800
Situated at the crossroads of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Spanish Philippines offer historians an intriguing middle ground of connected histories that raises fundamental new questions about conventional ethnic, regional and religious identities.
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Back to the roots of Shia Islam: ‘We need to get the full picture.'
When discussing the history of Islam, the focus is almost always on the history of the Sunni majority. University Lecturer in the history of Islam, Edmund Hayes wants this to change. His new ERC-funded project , focuses on the development of the early Shia community.
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Leiden Islam Academy launches online course ‘Islam in de klas’ for teachers
‘Islam in de klas’ is a new course targeting primary school teachers to go online on 18 March by the Leiden Islam Academy (LIA). The online course aims to help teachers get better equipped when dealing with Islam-related dilemmas in primary classrooms.
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Large grant for research into Islamic non-conformism
In the coming years, Asghar Seyed Gohrab receives an advanced European Research Council grant of two and a half million euros to spend on his research into non-conformism in Islam. ‘Hopefully I can use this to contribute something to society, to pass something on to future generations.’
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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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Ritualization of concert practice in Russian post-minimalist music
This research is driven by the necessity to investigate the subject of performing instrumental works by Russian post-minimalist composers, and to explore possibilities of incorporating the spiritual ideas that informed those works in a concert practice.
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Academics and lecturers develop teaching material on Islam
A number of different course curricula were presented at a training conference on ‘Islam in the Class’ op 17 November. The course materials were developed by Leiden academics in collaboration with teachers involved in pre-university education.
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Leiden University Centre for Intercultural Philosophy (LUCIP) is a centre housed in the Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University.
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Rebel Legal Order, Governance and Legitimacy: Examining the Islamic State and the Taliban Insurgency
This article explores how ISIS and the Taliban have fostered support through their parallel legal systems.
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Islamic TV in Indonesia: piety or commodity?
In Indonesia, some Muslim preachers are TV stars with massive followings. Syahril Siddik studied how they operate and how their viewers react. On 9 November, he successfully defended his dissertation in Islamic Studies.
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Islamic courts and women’s divorce rights in Indonesia
What role do the Islamic courts play in protecting women’s divorce rights? How do they perform with regard to spousal support, child support and marital property? Stijn van Huis defends his PhD thesis on September 8, 2015
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CFP Monotheisms in Medieval Islamic Thought
The Leiden University Centre for Islamic Thought and History (LUCITH) is hosting a two-day in-person conference on the topic of monotheism in medieval Islamic thought.
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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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Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast
Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. In eight episodes, professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger argues that the Islam and Muslims are an important part of European history: ‘That was…
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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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Nathal Dessing
Faculty of Humanities
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Online course for diplomats bridges perceptions between Islamic and Western worlds
Professor Maurits Berger is presenting an online course, starting on 6 November, on the images that Islam and the West hold of one another. The course will be useful for diplomats from Teheran to Islamabad.
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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…