Maaike van Berkel

Maaike van Berkel is professor of Medieval History at Radboud University. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of Muslim societies, with a particular interest in literacy, court culture and urban organization. Lon Buskens holds a chair for Law and Culture in Muslim societies at mostra'n més Leiden University and is director of the Netherlands Institute in Morocco. His research focuses on Islamic law and society, and the anthropology of Muslim societies, with a particular interest in Morocco and Indonesia. Petra Sijpesteijn is professor of Arabic at Leiden University. Her research concentrates on recovering the experience of Muslims and non-Muslims living under Islamic rule, using the vast stores of radically under-used documents surviving from the early Islamic world. mostra'n menys