Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society
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.
| 12-14 September | International Conference: Historicizing the Shiʿi Hadith Corpus |
| 24-25 June 2021 |
Travelling Islam: The Circulation of Ideas in Islamic Africa in cooperation with ASC and LUCAS |
| 12-14 September 2019 | Negotiation in Conquest: Wars, Treaties, and Recollections of the Rise of the Caliphate |
| 22-23 November 2018 | Urban Space and the Common Good in cooperation with the NIMAR |
| 16 November 2018 | Shiʿi Piety: Theory and Materiality from Premodern to Postmodern |
| 27-28 October 2018 | Islam (Re-)Observed: Geertz Comparative Study of Morocco and Indonesia 50 years on in cooperation with NIMAR |
| 2-3 November 2017 | Collecting the Muslim World |
| 3 April 2017 | Innovative Forms of Islamic Higher Education in Western Europe: between Scholarly and Societal Demands |
| 30-31 March 2017 | Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c. 900-1900: Forms of Unfreedom at the Intersection between Christianity and Islam |
| 12-15 December 2016 | Egypt Incorporated: Economic, Political and Cultural Developments from Late Antiquity to Islam |
| 12-14 December 2016 | Ocean of Law II: Islamic Legal Crossings in the Indian Ocean World |
| 9-10 December 2016 | The Meaning of Hair in Medieval Islam |
| 12-15 July 2016 | Thirteenth Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies |
| 22-24 June 2016 | Interfaith Love: Love, Sex and Marriage in the Islamicate World from the Middle Ages to the Present |
| 15 June 2016 | Violence, Displacement and Muslim Movements in Southeast Asia |
| 19-20 May 2016 | Amulets and Talismans in the Muslim World |
| 11 March 2016 | Jihad: between Theory and Practice |
| 28-29 January 2016 | Scholarly Personae in the History of Orientalism, 1870-1930 |
| 7-9 December 2015 | Ocean of Law: Intermixed Legal Systems across the Indian Ocean world, 1550-1950 |
| 3-5 December 2015 | Islam @250: Quranic Studies, Theology, Law, Mysticism and Political Thought in the First Three Centuries of Islam |
| 18-20 June 2015 | Egypt Connected: Cultural, Economic, Political and Military Interactions |
| 7-8 May 2015 | The Golden Horde in a Global Perspective: Imperial Strategies |
| 23 April 2015 | Muslim Scholars in Africa, Past and Present |
| 8-9 January 2015 | Female Islamic Authority in Comparative Perspective: Exemplars, Institutions, Practices |
| 16 December 2014 | Islam in the Hadrami Diaspora in the Eastern and Western of the Indian Ocean |
| 9 December 2014 | Qurʾan study day: Is the Qurʾan the first Arabic book? Roundtable on the emergence of the Qurʾan as a book |
| 18 September 2014 | Counselling and Mediation among Muslims in Europe |
| 4-5 June 2014 | 19th and 20th Century Philological Encounters |
| 8-9 May 2014 | Un colloque maroco-néerlandais: Perspectives Postcoloniales sur le Maroc |
| 22 April 2014 | Visual Orientalism: a seminar in honour of François Pouillon |
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6-7 April 2014 |
4th workshop related to “The Shariʾa Project: A UK-Netherlands Islamic Legal Studies Network” |
| 13 December 2013 | Contesting Identities: Islam and Culture in Contemporary Turkey |
| 28-29 November 2013 | Hajj: Global interactions through Pilgrimage |
| 15-16 November 2013 | 3rd workshop related to “The Shariʾa Project: A UK-Netherlands Islamic Legal Studies Network” |
| 13-14 May 2013 | Europe and Hajj in the Age of Empires: Muslim Pilgrimage prior to the Influx of Muslim Migration in the West |
| 3 May 2013 | Heritage of the Maghreb |
| 18-19 April 2013 | 2nd workshop related to “The Shariʾa Project: A UK-Netherlands Islamic Legal Studies Network” |
| 14 December 2012 | “Turksche Boucken” |
| 13-15 December 2012 | Islam in Interwar Europe and European Cultural History |
| 30 November 2012 | State and Religion in the Republic of Turkey |
| 10-12 September 2012 | 1st workshop related to “The Shariʾa Project: A UK-Netherlands Islamic Legal Studies Network” |
| 16 January 2012 | Prince of Physicians: Avicenna’s Legacy in the Islamic World and the West |
| 15-16 December 2011 | Beyond Hadith: Writing the Tradition of Early Islam. Conference in memory of Gautier H.A. Juynboll (1935-2010) |
| 12-14 December 2011 | Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe |
| 7-8 December 2011 | Bioethics and Islamic Law |
| 10 November 2011 | In the Shadow of Arabic. Berber, Arabic, and South Arabian. Studies in Honour of Professor Harry Stroomer |
| 17-18 October 2011 | Islam in Europe. Past Projects, Future Priorities |
| 7 October 2011 | Collecting the Muslim World: symposium in honour of Professor Jan Just Witkam |
| 13 September 2011 | Where did it go right? Islamic education in Indonesia, symposium in honour of Professor Kees van Dijk |
| 12 September 2011 | Islam in Contemporary Aceh. Reconfigurations of Ritual, Doctrine, Community and Authority |
| 31 mei - 1 juni 2011 | Islam en moslims in Nederlandse kunst en literatuur, tweedaagse conferentie ter ere van professor J.T.P. de Bruijn |
| 21-23 March 2011 | East-West Networks in Europe and the Middle East in the Interwar Period |
| 17-18 December 2010 | Shifting Frontiers: Current Issues in the History of Early Islamic Central Asia |
| 16 December 2010 | Forms and Elements of Muslim Religiosity in Europe |
| 15 December 2010 | The Shiite and Sunnite Liaison: Religious and Literary Interactions between the Ottoman and Safavid Empires |
| 3 December 2010 | Anthropology, Sociology & Minority Studies in EI3 |
| 11-12 March 2010 | Current Trends in Studies on the History and Society of the Maghrib |
| 4-5 February 2010 | The Wise Fools, Ascetism on Cross-Roads of Islam and Christianity |
| 10-12 December 2009 | Musical Traditions in the Middle East: Reminiscences of the Distant Past |
| 26 October 2009 | From Pariah to Pedestal. A Symposium on the Burgeoning of Iranian Cinema |
| 7 April 2009 | Dissent, Debate and Discussion in Medieval Islam. Seminar on the occasion of the inaugural lecture of Petra Sijpesteijn |
| 25 March 2009 | Islam and Muslims in the Modern World |