Annelies Moors studied Arabic at the University of Damascus and anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. From the early 1980s on, she has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Palestine (Nablus); later she also did fieldwork in Yemen (San‘a) and elsewhere in the Arab world. From 2001-2008 she was the Amsterdam University chair at ISIM (Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World). Currently she is professor of contemporary Muslim societies at the University of Amsterdam where she directs the research programme on Muslim cultural politics at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research. Participants in this programme work on fashion, artistic performances, music, and mosque design; Muslim family law and everyday life; and the cultural politics of migrant domestic labor.
Research Project: Marriages and Movements: Weddings and Wars
Links: http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/a.c.a.e.moors/
Selected Publications
* Women, Property, and Islam: Palestinian Experiences 1920-1990, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
* Co-editor of Discourse and Palestine, Het Spinhuis, 1995
* Guest editor of a special issue of Islamic Law and Society, 2003.
* Guest editor of a special issue of Fashion Theory, on Muslim Fashions (with Emma Tarlo), 2007.
* Truth in Islamic Law, Co-editor of Narratives, IB Taurus, 2008.
