Monthly Archive: December 2011
Onderzoeksbureau Motivaction heeft onderzoek laten uitvoeren onder 1570 moslima’s (met en zonder hoofddoek) en andere Nederlandse vrouwen. Het onderzoek heeft interessante, maar bepaald niet nieuwe, bevindingen. Ik heb de nodige bedenkingen bij dit type onderzoek.
Mesa 2011 ended last Sunday. It was a rewarding conference this year in Washington DC. I met several new people, saw some old colleagues back after quite a while and attended several interesting panels. On Sunday morning I participated in a round table discussion with Gudrun Kraemer, Free University Berlin – Mirjam Kuenkler, Princeton University – Thomas Pierret, University of Edinburgh – and Hilary Kalmbach, University of Oxford; the latter also being the convenor and chair of this session. The title of this panel was Mapping Change in Islamic Authority: Shifting Cultures of Knowledge, Learning, and Practice. I’m not going to summarize this panel for you but I will share with you my notes which I used for a brief talk and ideas that came up in the discussion.
Bahrain: An island kingdom in the Arabian Gulf where the Shia Muslim majority are ruled by a family from the Sunni minority. Where people fighting for democratic rights broke the barriers of fear, only to find themselves alone and crushed. An Al Jazeera documentary.