NISIS Autumn School 2013, 22-25 October, Utrecht University

The NISIS Autumn School 2013 ‘Islam: culture or religion?’ is held at
Utrecht University, from Tuesday 22 October through Friday 25 October,
and features keynotes from several renowned speakers. This
conference-cum-workshop seeks to investigate the relationship between
religion and culture in Islam, to think about the history of the
scholarly appropriations of these terms as well as to explore their
current and possible future uses in the study of Islam. The keynotes
are:

Tuesday 22 October
15.00-15.45: Carole Hillenbrand (University of Edinburg): ‘The
academic discipline of Islamic history: the case of jihad scholarship’
16.30-17.15: Adam Silverstein (Bar-Ilan University,): ‘Islam as an
Abrahamic civilization.’

Wednesday 23 October
14.30-15.15: Syrinx von Hees (Bonn University): ‘Artistic production
of the Middle East in view of the question Islam: Culture or
Religion?’
16.00-16.45: Bruce Lawrence (Duke University): ‘Islam between
scripture and discourse.’

Thursday 24 October
14.30-15.15: Roman Loimeier (University of Göttingen): ‘“African
Islam” vs. “Islam in Africa”: the problem of binary constructions of
Muslim societies’
16.00-16.45: Léon Buskens (Leiden University): ‘Changes and
continuities in Islamic Studies in the Netherlands in an international
perspective’

For full information about this event, visit
[www.hum.leiden.edu]