Conference report, “Approaching Shiʿi Islam in the Academy”, Leiden University Centre for Islam and Society (LUCIS), Wednesday 14 November 2018-Thursday 15 November 2018

Abstract

The 2018 annual conference of the Leiden University Centre for Islam and Society (LUCIS) was held under the theme “Approaching Shiʿi Islam in the Academy”. This was perhaps the first conference of its kind in the Netherlands, whose universities, though possessing a strong tradition in Islamic studies and Persian studies, have not hitherto provided strong institutional support for Shii studies. The conference was attended and well received. presenting original research, contributors provided reflections on the state of their sub-fields and showed how examples derived from the study of can com-plicate and enrich debates in broader an Twelver) of periodiza-tion of ethnographies the state of the of cor-pora. analysis bird’s studies