Biography
Dick Douwes is Professor of Global History, at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Since 2006 he is also dean of the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Professor Douwes studied Arabic Language and Culture at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. In 1993 he received his PhD at Nijmegen University. He lectured on the history of the Middle East at the universities of Nijmegen and Leiden. From 1994 to 1998 he was coordinator of the programme Indonesian-Netherlands’ Cooperation in Islamic Studies (INIS) at Leiden University.
As of 1998 onwards he was academic coordinator - later executive director - of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and editor of the ISIM Newsletter/Review and ISIM Papers series. He has published on late Ottoman history in Syria and on religious plurality in the Middle East, as well as on Muslims in Western Europe.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- douwes@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Dick Douwes (2020) - Doet een Syrisch gezin aan restjesverwerking? 'Cynische duiding van een welwillend gebaar' - [link]
- Dick Douwes (2018) - The War on Shrines. Geweld tegen heiligdommen en pelgrims in Syrie - ZemZem: Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en Islam, 14 (1), 54-61
- Dick Douwes (2017) - The Ottomans in Syria : A History of Justice and Oppression - [link]
- Dick Douwes (2016) - De islam; een kleine geschiedenis
- Dick Douwes (2015) - Shrine politics in Syria; devotees, tourists and partisans
- Dick Douwes (2015) - Sayyida Zaynab: Sektarisme en de oorlog in Syrië
- Dick Douwes (2014) - Sectarianism and its counter discourses in the post-colonial Middle East
- Dick Douwes (2014) - Mapping Religious Practice in Syria at the Turn of the 20th Century; Samual Ives Curtiss’ Construction of Primitive Semitic Religion
- Dick Douwes (2013) - The Impact of the Creation of Hatay on Communities and Their Regional
- Dick Douwes (2013) - At-Tarikh al-Hadith li-l-Isma’iliyin an-Nizariyin fi Suriya - [link]
- Dick Douwes & Mohamad Meqdad (2020) - Muslim Cultures and Societies 2020 online short course series (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Academic - Dick Douwes & G Berg (Leiden University) (2020) - NISIS Autumn School, Co-organizer (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Academic - Dick Douwes (2019) - The Aga Khan University and The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Culture in Crisis Programme (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Professional - Dick Douwes (2018) - Shrine Culture: Sectarianisation and its Alternatives (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Dick Douwes (2018) - Positie van Arabischtalige Alawieten in het Midden-Oosten (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Dick Douwes (2018) - Shrine Politics in Lebanon and Syria: Reorganizing Sacred Space (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Dick Douwes (2017) - Shrine Politics (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Dick Douwes (2017) - Shrine Politics in the Middle East: Holy Sites and Public Space (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Dick Douwes (2013) - Citizenship, Personal Status Law and the Muslim Other in Post-Ottoman Syria and Lebanon (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Dick Douwes (2012) - The sectarian catch in Asad's Syria (Suriya al-Asad): the Alawite community and the uprising (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA
