An anthropology of Muslims in Europe - A modest attempt by Martijn
Date: Friday, November 24th Time: 17:00 – 18:30 Location: Spui 25, Register at https://spui25.nl/programma/debating-muslim-marriage Abstract Unconventional Muslim marriages have been topics of heated public debate around the globe. Religious scholars, policy makers, political actors,...
A new channel 4 documentary presented by Dr Myriam François and directed by Anna Hall which looks into whether age-old marriage laws in the UK need to be updated once again. Britain is not...
In de tentoonstelling en documentaire vertelt een diverse groep mannen en vrouwen openhartig over twee belangrijke onderwerpen in hun leven: hun bekering en (de zoektocht naar) een partner om hun leven mee te delen. Een partner vinden na je bekering, hoe pak je dat aan? Wat als je al een partner hebt, en je dan pas bekeert? Wat is ‘halal’ dating en wat komt er eigenlijk kijken bij een islamitisch huwelijk?
The British website ImamsOnline.com has an interesting series ‘What British Muslims Really Do‘. It has different episodes (with highlights and extended interviews) with different British Muslims doing, well you know, different things. There are...
The Dutch undercover TV report ‘Undercover Nederland’ had a program yesterday on Islamic marriages in the Netherlands. They showed examples of a couple wanting to marry without a prior civic marriage and polygamous marriages....
A Dutch court has ruled the refusal of a divorce to a woman in the case of a Islamic marriage is a unlawful act. Islamic marriages in the Netherlands are, in a legal sense,...
Are Islam and feminism inherently at odds? Is there a contradiction between piety and gender justice? This is the guiding theme for Rachel Rinaldo, professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, in her...
The AISSR and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam are looking for PhD candidates who will participate in the ERC-funded research project ‘Problematizing “Muslim Marriages”: Ambiguities and Contestations’, directed by Prof. Dr. Annelies Moors.
