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ISIM Newsletter 12 ISIM, Citation ISIM,. (2003). ISIM Newsletter 12. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/11968 Version: Not Applicable (or Unknown) License: Leiden University Non-exclusive license Downloaded https://hdl.handle.net/1887/11968 from: Note: To cite this publication please use the final published version (if applicable). J U N E 2 0 0 3 6 0 P A G E S I N F O @ I S I M . N L W W W . I S I M . N L 12 US Army Sergeant steps on a carpet depicting Saddam Hussein as Saladin at the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) based in Baghdad. Saladin is the Kurdish warrior who captured Jerusalem from t h e Crusaders in 1187. 2 0 The Unexpected Aftermath of © REUTERS, 2003 Operation ‘Iraqi F r e e d o m ’ ■ IBRAHIM AL-MARASHI 2 2 The Challenge of Post-Taliban Governance ■ M . N A Z I F S H A H R A N I 4 8 A New Crusade o r a n Old One? ■ HEATHER J. SHARKEY 5 1 4 2 6 3 0 Asef Bayat Dale F. Eickelman Alexandre Caeiro Ebrahim Moosa New ISIM Academic Director Khalid Masud’s Multiple Worlds Adjusting Islamic Law to Migration Configuring Muslim Thought A d s 2 I S I M NEWSLETTER 1 2 / J U N E 2 0 0 3 C o n t e n t s 4 E d i t o r i a l / Dick Douwes 5 New ISIM Academic Director: A s e f B a y a t 6 The Production of Islamic Knowledge in Western Europe / Martin van Bruinessen 7 Inaugural Lecture / Annelies Moors 8 Lectures and Debates: Islam, Authority, and Leadership / Nathal M. Dessing 9 Workshop: Anthropology of Islamic Law / Muhammad Khalid Masud ISIM Newsletter 12 1 0 Workshop: Gender and Conversion to Islam / Karin van Nieuwkerk June 2003 60 pages 1 1 ISIM Website Relaunched / Noël Lambert ISSN 1 388-9788 1 2 Rights at Home: Southeast Asia Consultative Meeting / Sharifa Zuriah Aljeffri & Mariëtte van Beek Visiting Address 1 3 ISIM Roundtable: Islamic Law and Muslim Minorities / Welmoet Boender Rapenburg 71 L e i d e n 1 4 Khalid Masud’s Multiple Worlds / Dale F. Eickelman Postal Address I S I M 1 6 Shari'a Scholar / Brinkley Messick P.O. Box 11089 2301 EB Leiden 1 8 Interview with Muhammad Khalid Masud / Abdulkader Tayob The Netherlands T e l e p h o n e 2 0 The Unexpected Aftermath of Operation ‘Iraqi Freedom’ / Ibrahim al-Marashi +31(0)71-527 79 05 F a x 2 2 The Challenge of Post-Taliban Governance in Afghanistan / Nazif Shahrani +31(0)71-527 79 06 E - m a i l 2 4 CFCM; A French Touch? / Valérie Amiraux i s i m n e w s @ i s i m . n l H o m e p a g e 2 6 Adjusting Islamic Law to Migration / Alexandre Caeiro w w w . i s i m . n l 2 8 Religion and Modernity Reflections on a Modern Debate / David Waines E d i t o r 3 0 Configuring Muslim Thought / Ebrahim Moosa Dick Douwes Copy and language editor 3 2 Recovering the History of Modernist Islam / Charles Kurzman Gabrielle Constant Desk editor 3 4 What Does Progressive Islam Look Like? / Peter Mandaville Noël Lambert 3 6 Diverging Prevalence of Female Genital Cutting / Kathryn M. Yount D e s i g n 3 8 Muslim Voices on Cloning / Thomas Eich De Kreeft, Amsterdam P r i n t i n g 4 0 Muslim Responses to HIV/AIDS / Abdul Kayum Ahmed Dijkman Offset, Diemen 4 2 Cyber Intifada and Palestinian Identity / Miriyam Aouragh Coming issue 4 4 The Nizari Ismaili Community and the Internet / Rizwan Mawani ¥ ISIM Newsletter 13 Deadline: 1 September 2003 4 6 Shifting Frontiers Islam and Christianity in Post-Soviet Ajaria / Mathijs Pelkmans Published: December 2003 4 8 A New Crusade or an Old One? / Heather J. Sharkey 5 0 Pioneers or Pawns? Women Health Workers in Yemen / Marina de Regt 5 2 Sanctifying the Nation; Teaching Religion in Secular Turkey / Özlem Altan The ISIM solicits your response to the I S I M N e w s l e t t e r. If you wish to contribute to 5 4 Healing and Foretelling Practices in Azerbaijan / Jerzy Rohozinski the ISIM Newsletter, style sheets are available on the ISIM website. 5 5 The Cham Student Programme / Jay Willoughby The ISIM Newsletter is published by 5 6 Ramadan in Kyrgyzstan; An Ethnographer’s Gaze on Fasting / Julia Droeber t h e International Institute for the Study o f Islam in the Modern World (ISIM). 5 7 The Centre for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin / Ulrike Freitag Responsibility for the facts and opinions expressed in this publication rests solely 5 8 Editors Pick with the authors. Their views do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute 5 9 Personal Quest for Happiness in Islam o r its supporters. The ISIM Newsletter i s free of charge. 6 0 Alternative cola I S I M NEWSLETTER 1 2 / J U N E 2 0 0 3 3 E d i t o r i a l DICK DOUWES The ISIM’s five-year formative period is drawing to a close. The institute is intellectual debates with developments at the grassroots level. In par- nearly functioning at full capacity of academic staff and fellows. Last year ticular his observation that today too much sacredness is attached to an evaluation report was drawn up by Peter Geschiere (Leiden Universi- the past (see his interview with Tayob, pp. 18Ð19) demonstrates this ty/University of Amsterdam), Barbara Metcalf (University of California at concern. It accentuates his use of the past Ð not to reconstruct it but to Davis), and Merle Rickleffs (University of Melbourne) (see www.isim.nl). historicize the great Islamic tradition and its openness to change. In The reflection upon the ISIM’s recent past and ensuing changes were this spirit are Khalid Masud’s writings on the fourteenth-century schol- the more crucial because ISIM’s first and current Academic Director, ar al-Shatibi, which are among his most influential scholarly output. Muhammad Khalid Masud, will be retiring in September 2003. His Masud’s scholarship being unique, the ISIM was of course obliged to unique expertise that combines a profound and lived knowledge of Is- open itself to a different profile for a successor. In its search, the ISIM lamic law and society with a keen interest in the humanities and social relied on the joint commitment of the ISIM Chairs. Contrary to the first sciences has shaped the ISIM research agenda over the last four years. years, when Khalid Masud and Martin van Bruinessen were the only Much to the benefit of the ISIM he succeeded in attracting the coopera- ISIM Chairs, with the appointments of Annelies Moors in 2001 and Ab- tion of leading scholars in the broad field of the study of Muslim soci- dulkader Tayob in 2002 the ISIM has gained the critical mass needed to eties and cultures. Some of these colleagues pay homage to Khalid enhance its research capacity. Masud in this issue of the ISIM Newsletter (Eickelman, pp. 14Ð15; Mes- Asef Bayat, the ISIM Academic Director and ISIM Chair at Leiden Univer- sick, pp. 16Ð17, and Moosa 30Ð1). When I told him of these special fea- sity from September 2003 onwards (see p. 5), has followed a somewhat tures Khalid Masud commented jokingly that it is, indeed, preferable to different, if not reverse, trajectory of academic interests to that of Khalid see one’s obituaries when still alive! Among the most modest and unas- Masud: Bayat started his research on the working classes, later moving to suming international scholars, Khalid Masud’s legacy is already evident issues concerning faith. Nonetheless, both share the lived experience of and the appreciation of his scholarship and intellectual acuity is not lim- dramatic change in their home countries and prolonged exile. ited to Western academia. Last April he was awarded the Iqbal Award in One of the changes that followed from the evaluation of the ISIM was Pakistan for his book Iqbal’s Reconstruction of Ijtihad. the dissolution of its twin advisory committees: the International Advi- With his retirement the ISIM loses not only a great sory Committee and the Academic Committee. Instead, a new and sin- Staff ISIM scholar, but also a true Muslim intellectual who gle Advisory Committee is presently in formation. In particular the Muhammad Khalid Masud shows great concern for social, political, and input of the Academic Committee has been vital in the success of the Academic Director moral dynamics within Muslim societies and com- ISIM in establishing itself internationally within a short span of time, Peter van der Veer munities, including those in Europe. Much of his also because several of its members have been actively engaged in C o - D i r e c t o r work is also aimed at stimulating an open and ISIM activities and are among the contributors to the ISIM Newsletter, Dick Douwes critical discourse among Muslims and connecting this issue being no exception. Academic Affairs After eleven issues published in tabloid style, the ISIM Mary Bakker LETTER TO THE EDITOR Newsletter Ð as well as the ISIM Website Ð has been re- Administrative Affairs vamped. Some of the functions of the Newsletter have been Nathal Dessing Dear Editor, transferred to the website, such as the international agenda E d u c a t i o n ■ When the ISIM Newsletter 11 opens its first page with a of conferences and workshops, as the Internet offers a more Noël Lambert colossal howler, there must be something deeply wrong with up to date and interactive instrument.
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