Affiliation : Lieden University    Date of establishment : 1998    Tel : + 31 71 5277905    Fax : + 31 71 5277906    Addres : P.O. Box 11089, 2301 EB Leiden    Email : info@isim.nl    Url : http://www.isim.nl/, http://www.narcis.nl/organisation/RecordID/ORG1238811    More : The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) conducts and promotes interdisciplinary research on social, political, cultural, and intellectual trends and movements in contemporary Muslim societies and communities. The ISIM was established in 1998 by the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Utrecht University, and the Radboud University Nijmegen in response to a need for further research on contemporary developments of great social, political and cultural importance in the Muslim world from social science and humanities perspectives. The ISIM's research approaches are expressly interdisciplinary and comparative, covering a large geographic range, which includes North Africa, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and Muslim communities in the West. Broad in scope, the ISIM brings together all areas of disciplinary expertise in anthropology, sociology, religious studies, political science, and cultural studies. |Special ISIM Chairs have been created at the four participating universities