It took us six years, but I’m very pleased to announce that, at last, our book: Islamic Militant Activism in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany – ‘Islands in a sea of disbelief’ (Palgrave 2020) has been published. The book, written with my wonderful colleagues Carmen Becker and Ineke Roex, is a revised and updated version […]Continue Reading →
The Journal of Muslims in Europe has published a special issue on Salafism in Europe, edited by Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf and Mira Menzfeld, and I had the honour of being one of the writers. Here are all the articles listed, the first is Open Access, the others unfortunately not. Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Empirical Approaches to SalafismIntroduction […]Continue Reading →
So, my end of the year list (beneden de Nederlandse posts!) 5) Throughout 2016 and 2017 I shifted my academic focus a little more to Islamophobia and racialization. The work of W.E.B. du Bois is very important here, no 5 How does it feel to be a problem? – W.E.B. du Bois on Race and […]Continue Reading →
Together with Marleen de Witte (University of Amsterdam) and Thijl Sunier (VU University Amsterdam) I edited a special volume of the journal Culture and Religion on the aesthetics of religious leadership. The different contributions were presented earlier in 2012 in the seminar Aesthetics of religious leadership at VU University: Seminar: Aesthetics of religious leadership – […]Continue Reading →
In our IMES Series Report ‘Islands in a sea of unbelief’ – The resistance of activist daʿwa networks in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, the sort of activism employed in networks like Sharia4Belgium and Sharia4Holland is analysed. We address how the activism of such networks interact with practices of the government and media during the […]Continue Reading →
Salafisme. Utopische idealen in een weerbarstige praktijk dat ik heb geschreven met Joas Wagemakers en Carmen Becker verschijnt op woensdag 14 mei.Continue Reading →
The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam are looking for a PhD candidate who will participate in the research project 'Forces that bind or divide? Muslim interventions in the public realm 1989 – 2016', directed by Annelies Moors.Continue Reading →
My article in the special issue of Contemporary Islam on Moral Ambiguities and Muslim Lives: The moral maze: Dutch Salafis and the construction of a moral community of the faithful.Continue Reading →
On Friday the 21st of September 2012 the anthropological department of the VU University in Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Radboud University of Nijmegen organizes a one-day symposium on the ‘aesthetics of religious leadership’.Continue Reading →
