Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society

Research programmes

LUCIS funds several research programmes to boost interfaculty and interdisciplinary cooperation and to widen the involvement of LUCIS members.

Current research programmes

• MENA Cultures and Global Aesthetics
• Islam in Central Asia: Shrines along the Silk Road
• Travelling Islam: The Circulation of Ideas in Islamic Africa
• Framing Late Antique Religion

Previous research programmes

• Islam in North Africa: A Critical Return to Youth
• Re-presented Pasts: Uses and Re-Uses of the Past in Pre-Modern Islam
• Historical Muslim Societies
• Law and Governance in Muslim Societies
• Shiʿi Studies
• Islam in Southeast Asia
• Islam in North Africa
• Islam in the West