953 search results for “islam” in the Public website
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Jelle BruningFaculty of Humanities
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Maurits BergerFaculty of Humanities
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Mahmood KooriadathodiFaculty of Humanities
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Erica HarperFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jelle van Buuren in De Volkskrant on radical Islamic schools in the Netherlands
A new chapter has been added to the ongoing discussion on Islamic schools in the Netherlands. Dutch television programme ‘Nieuwsuur’ and Dutch newspaper NRC conducted research into approximately 50 Islamic educational institutions which do not take part in the conventional Dutch educational system.…
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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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The Marie Curie ITN proposal ‘Mediating Islam in the Digital Age’ (MIDA) has been awarded
An international consortium of research institutes, universities and non-academic partners in six European countries has been awarded with a research grant from the Department for Research and Innovation of the European Commission in June 2018. MIDA is coordinated by the ‘Centre National de la Recherche…
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3-8 December 2016 Workshop: "Islamic Studies in the West: An interdisciplinary perspective"
From the 3rd until the 8th of December, together with Dr Amr Ryad of Utrecht University our institute organized a workshop with students of the Faculty of Languages and Translation of the Azhar University. During this workshop, students had the opportunity to discuss their own research proposals with…
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Western Arabia in the Leiden Collections
Traces of a Colourful Past
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Call for Papers: Ties of Kinship and the Early Islamic Empire
Embedding Conquest: Ties of Kinship and the Early Islamic Empire, Leiden, 6-8 December 2021
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LUCIS funding continued from 2018-2020
We are delighted to announce that the funding of the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) will be continued from 2018 until 2020!
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Individualization, Fragmentation of Authority, and New Organizational Forms among Muslims in Europe
What forms does religiosity take among Muslims in Europe today? How are answers to the question of what it means to be a Muslim in Europe reached in institutions of Islamic higher education, Muslim student organizations, and women’s organizations? What is the relation between the individual and religious…
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Islam en Medische Ethiek: Hoofdvragen en Benaderingen
Lecture
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
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Hosna SheikhattarFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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‘Secular Power Europe’ and Islam
Lecture
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Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam
Lecture
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Tarsus
After the advent of Islam in the 7th century C.E., the strategic geographical position of Tarsus (its proximity to the sea and to the mountain pass leading to inland Anatolia) made this town the de facto capital of the thughur, a historical and geographical term created by Muslim geographers qualifying…
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Material Entanglements in the Islamic World: New Approaches to Islamic Archaeology and Ceramics
Conference
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Islam in Kunst
Festival, Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019
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Research programmes
LUCIS funds several research programmes to boost interfaculty and interdisciplinary cooperation and to widen the involvement of LUCIS members.
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Epistemological Inquiry into Islam’s Moral Economic Teachings, Legal Discourse, and Islamization Process
PhD Defence
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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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ERC Consolidator Grant for Petra Sijpesteijn
Arabist and papyrologist Petra Sijpesteijn has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for her research on the early Islamic Empire. The five-year ERC grant will fund the research project
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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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About
LUCIS is an interfaculty knowledge centre offering a multidisciplinary and comparative view on Islam and Muslim societies.
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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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Annual conference
Every year, LUCIS organises 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 convene in Leiden to share and discuss their work.
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
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Loes OudenhuijsenAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Joanita VroomFaculteit Archeologie
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Syahril SiddikFaculty of Humanities
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Léon BuskensFaculty of Humanities
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Ian SimpsonFaculteit Archeologie
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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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Mehdy Shaddel BasirFaculty of Humanities
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AfshinFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Adeel HussainFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Abdourahamane Idrissa AbdoulayeAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Elena Burgos MartinezFaculty of Humanities
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NISIS Islamic Studies Network Day
Lecture
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The "Serpent of the Desert" and the "Lion’s Whelp": Transformations of Christian Apocalypticism and Interreligious Polemics
Lecture, FLARe lecture series
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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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Publications
LUCIS publishes two peer-reviewed book series, “Leiden Studies in Islam and Society” (Brill) and “Debates on Islam and Society” (Leiden University Press).
- Mondriaan and Islamic geometric art
- The Role of Islam in Parenting