![]() Amin (Professor of Economics, American University in Cairo) delivered the fourth Snouck Hurgronje lecture: Fifty Years of Economic and Intellectual Dependence: Arab Economic Development and the West.Ī little more than fifty years ago, for the Arab countries – together with the rest of what was then called ‘The Third World’ –, the words ‘Economic Development’ seemed to summarize most of their economic and social ambitions after gaining independence. ![]() Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw (KOG), Steenschuur 25, Leiden, Lorentz Room His current two research projects concern shariah and civil law in England, and Islamic courts and property disputes in Indonesia.įourth Snouck Hurgronje lecture, 6 March 2009:įifty years of Economic and Intellectual Dependence: Arab Economic Development and the West He also writes regularly for The Boston Review. His book Can Islam be French? (Princeton, 2009) treats Muslim debates and institutions in France (and appeared in French in 2011), and will be followed by A New Anthropology of Islam from Cambridge and Blaming Islam from MIT Press, both in 2012. His most recent book on Asia is Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning (Cambridge, 2003), and his Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves (Princeton, 2007) concerned current debates in France on Islam and laïcité. He studies problems of pluralism, law, and religion, and in particular contemporary efforts to rethink Islamic norms and law in Asia, Europe, and North America. John Bowen is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St Louis. To that end, John Bowen will propose to examine the range of practices associated with shariah councils in England. Now as 100 years ago, we most need a more empirically-grounded understanding of practices which refer to shariah, which range from ethical concerns to those domains termed ‘legal’ in Europe. Snouck Hurgronje’s concerns for the dangers posed by Islamic legalism are echoed by many in Europe today. The lecture was delivered by Professor John R. On Thursday 3 November 2011, LUCIS, in cooperation with the Foundation “Oosters Instituut” in Leiden organised the LUCIS 3rd Annual Lecture = the 5th Snouck Hurgronje Lecture. Location: Lipsius building, lecture room 003 (Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden). The Foundation wishes, by organizing these lectures, to contribute to the public debate in an original and stimulating way.įifth Snouck Hurgronje lecture, Thursday 3 November 2011: The lectures are public and admission is free. These lectures are named after the first president of the Foundation`s board, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje. Since 2003 the Oosters Instituut organizes a biennial lecture which is delivered by an internationally renowned authority on one of its fields of interest.
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