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Innovative forms of Islamic higher education in Western Europe:
between scholarly and societal demands
Programme
Venue: Faculty of Social Sciences (Pieter de la Court building), Wassenaarseweg 52 Leiden, room
1A.01
Monday 3 April | MEETING AND MERGING OF SPACES AND DIDACTIC APPROACHES
8.45-9.15
Registration and coffee/tea
Session 1 | Introducing the topic
9.15-9.30
9.30-10.10
10.10-11.00
11.00-11.30
Welcome
Dr. Welmoet Boender (Leiden University, the Netherlands), Innovative forms of
Islamic higher education in Western Europe: explaining the rationale of the conference
Prof. dr. Mr. Maurits Berger (Leiden University, Leiden Islam Academy and LUCIS,
the Netherlands), Leiden Islam Academy: an innovative approach
Break
Session 2 | The insider/outsider perspective in the study of Islam
Chair: Prof. dr. Göran Larsson (Göteborg University, Sweden)
11.30-12.10
Prof. dr. Riem Spielhaus (Georg Eckert Institute for Textbook Research, Germany),
Integration of Islamic Theology into Western European academia
12.10-13.00
Dr. Jan Felix Engelhardt (University of Frankfurt, Germany), Getting beyond the
Islamic Studies/Islamic Theology divide. The self-understanding of professors in Islamic
Theology programs in Germany
13.00-14.00
Lunch break
Session 3 | Private institutes of higher Islam education and moments of meeting with
secular universities
Chair: Dr. Welmoet Boender (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
14.00 -14.40
14.40-15.20
Alyaa Ebbiary (SOAS, University of London), A Tale of Two Colleges: ‘Rehab’ and
Rewriting the Islamic Curriculum
Anne Dijk (Fahm Institute, the Netherlands), Experiences from the Fahm Institute in
the Netherlands
15.20-15.40
Break
Session 4 | Innovative didactics for teaching Islam
Chair: Prof. dr. Alison Scott-Baumann (SOAS, University of London)
15.40-16.20
Dr. Matthew Wilkinson (Research Fellow in Islam in Education & Law at SOAS,
University of London and Director of Curriculum for Cohesion, United Kingdom),
Islamic critical realism: a philosophy to 'underlabour' the teaching of Islam in the West
16.20-17.00
Rasit Bal (Hogeschool InHolland Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Teaching
hermeneutics and reflexivity while meeting the needs of the students
17.00-18.30
Leontine van Melle and Monique Snijder (Centre for Innovation, Leiden University
Campus The Hague), Workshop how to teach Islam online
18.30
Dinner for speakers and invited guests
Tuesday 4 April | MEETING SOCIETAL DEMANDS
Session 5 | Communities as receivers
Chair: Prof. dr. Maurits Berger (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
9.10-9.50
9.50 -10.30
10.30-11.00
Dr. Ali Özgür Özdil (Islamisches Wissenschaft- und Bildungsinstitut e.V., Germany)
Experiences from Islamisches Wissenschafts- und Bildungsinstitut Hamburg
Mieke Groeninck (KU Leuven, Belgium), Modes of apprehension of Islamic knowledge
among female students in mosque education
Break
Session 6 | Reaching public audiences
Chair: Dr. Yaser Ellethy (VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
11.00-11.40 Dr. Meryem Kanmaz (former director of Mana vzw, Belgium), Mana as educational
platform for public debate on Islam. Societal demands and political constraints
11.40-12.20
Naima Lafrarchi (researcher and Islamic RE teacher, Flemish Community), Islam in
higher education in Flanders: innovations made and questions left
12.20-13.20
Lunch break
Session 7 | Teaching Islam at the interchange of religion, state and society
Chair: Dr. Welmoet Boender (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
13.20-14.00
Prof. dr. Alison Scott-Baumann (Centre of Islamic Studies SOAS, United Kingdom),
Islamic Studies in Britain: describing interstitial spaces
14.00-15.30
Closing session: Emerging new directions in Islamic higher education in Western Europe
16:00
End of the conference