M Van Den Bos
Biographic Data
| ID | 20802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Van Den Bos |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Van Den |
| FAMILY NAME | Bos |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DEN BOS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1139-2399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Along the Shiite lines of sufi authority
The oeuvre of the philosopher Leo Strauss (d.1973) pivots on the audacious thesis that political esoterism – the protective covering of truth through an exoteric shell – has been central to Islamic intellectual life. Strauss’s work focusses on philosophy, but this article argues that it can be productively extended – while not applied integrally - to Sufism, Islam’s similarly contested, primary esoteric tradition. It investigates the Straussian t…
The promised land of Fadak
Yāsir al-Ḥabīb is a Britain-based cleric of Kuwaiti origin who aims to establish a religious state in the Persian Gulf region. This article assesses his project as a particular form of Shiite politics, in light of Peter van der Veer’s transnational theory of religious nationalism. It first examines religious conceptions of land in Twelver Shiism to situate Fadak, an oasis on the Arabian Peninsula. Fadak has been “promised land,“ pledged by the Pr…
The balance of ecumenism and sectarianism
Foreign policy development in the Islamic Republic is often conceived through secularizing homologies of ideology and pragmatism and radicalism and moderation. Policy practice, however, has often welded their crossed terms together religiously. This article seeks to resolve some contradictions in extant models by reconceiving of Iran’s foreign policy since 1979 as a religious system that differentiates contending values hierarchically. It explore…
‘Western seminary’
In this article the author delves beneath the surface of Shiite higher education in Britain to discover whether it constitutes a case for ‘European Islam’. Juxtaposing the theorisation of Islam in Europe with a commonly unrelated body of scholarship on education and citizenship, it examines a paradox of integrative blending and foreign frames. Understanding Western Shiite education requires recognition of both local identity and transnational tie…
Conjectures on Solṭāncalīshāh, the Valāyat-nāme and Shiite Sufi authority
Few concepts if any are more central to Shiite Sufism (as to Shiism generally) than valāyat , and the current essay briefly explores its significance in and around an Iranian treatise of the early twentieth-century named the Valāyat-nāme . Three perspectives frame the discussion: the modern theory of friendship generally, Christian mystical and Islamic concepts of Friendship with God, and (Sunni and) Shiite Sufi authority. It is proposed that typ…
Christoph Marcinkowski, Shi’ite identities
In Shi’ite Identities, Christoph Marcinkowski gives us a study of Twelver Shiite ideology and practice in a variety of historical and geographical situations. He asserts with some justification tha
Cultural migration
While distrust and divisiveness amongst Iranians in different diaspora environments have been commonly acknowledged, there are additional indications suggesting that Dutch-Iranian organizations are relatively scarce. In this article, we compare the organizational networks of Dutch-Iranians to those of Turks and Moroccans in the Netherlands. The results show that organization density is lower and fragmentation higher for Dutch-Iranians. We explain…
European Shiism? Counterpoints from Shiites’ organization in Britain and the Netherlands
European Shiism is a neglected area in studies of European Islam, which raises the question of to what extent Shiism in Europe represents a particular realm of organization and a particular religiosity. Shiism’s striking transnational features, and general findings on European Islam, suggest prolific border-crossing and cross-ethnic organization among Shiites in Europe. Exploring British and Dutch cases, however, leaves little room for the notion…
Territorial bounds to virtual space
In this article we question a central trope of transnationalism and new media - deterritorialization - and its application to border crossing Internet usage by Iranian and Turkish-Kurdish migrants in the Netherlands. Their Internet usage indicates the extent to which territoriality channels these groups' online practice. We found Dutch-Iranian sites reflected correspondingly sparse offline community networks and state boundaries moulded their tra…
Hyperlinked Dutch-Iranian Cyberspace
Studies of the Dutch-Iranian diaspora are rare, but all indicate features that set it apart from other migrant communities in the Netherlands. It appears from these surveys that Dutch-Iranians have low levels of communal organization and sparsely knit networks. This article maintains that the pattern also holds for online Dutch-Iranian community structures, and builds its case on an examination of hyperlinks between websites of Iranians in the Ne…
Landmarks for 'Nowhereland
Transnational Dutch-Iranian hyperlink networks allow the exploration of relationships between virtual and physical space. According to many of its analysts, the Internet implies a virtual transcendence of place, but ethnographic approaches have convincingly redirected attention to issues of embeddedness. Here, this concept principally applies to national contexts of hyperlink production, content, and directionality. This article examines the inte…
A modern Iranian Shiite Friend of God - Nūr'alīshāh II (1867-1918)
Mystic Regimes
Sufi Authority in Khatami's Iran. Some Fieldwork Notes
Territorial bounds to virtual space
In this article we question a central trope of transnationalism and new media - deterritorialization - and its application to border crossing Internet usage by Iranian and Turkish-Kurdish migrants in the Netherlands. Their Internet usage indicates the extent to which territoriality channels these groups' online practice. We found Dutch-Iranian sites reflected correspondingly sparse offline community networks and state boundaries moulded their tra…
European Shiism? Counterpoints from Shiites’ organization in Britain and the Netherlands
European Shiism is a neglected area in studies of European Islam, which raises the question of to what extent Shiism in Europe represents a particular realm of organization and a particular religiosity. Shiism’s striking transnational features, and general findings on European Islam, suggest prolific border-crossing and cross-ethnic organization among Shiites in Europe. Exploring British and Dutch cases, however, leaves little room for the notion…
Hyperlinked Dutch-Iranian Cyberspace
Studies of the Dutch-Iranian diaspora are rare, but all indicate features that set it apart from other migrant communities in the Netherlands. It appears from these surveys that Dutch-Iranians have low levels of communal organization and sparsely knit networks. This article maintains that the pattern also holds for online Dutch-Iranian community structures, and builds its case on an examination of hyperlinks between websites of Iranians in the Ne…
The balance of ecumenism and sectarianism
Foreign policy development in the Islamic Republic is often conceived through secularizing homologies of ideology and pragmatism and radicalism and moderation. Policy practice, however, has often welded their crossed terms together religiously. This article seeks to resolve some contradictions in extant models by reconceiving of Iran’s foreign policy since 1979 as a religious system that differentiates contending values hierarchically. It explore…
Landmarks for 'Nowhereland
Transnational Dutch-Iranian hyperlink networks allow the exploration of relationships between virtual and physical space. According to many of its analysts, the Internet implies a virtual transcendence of place, but ethnographic approaches have convincingly redirected attention to issues of embeddedness. Here, this concept principally applies to national contexts of hyperlink production, content, and directionality. This article examines the inte…
The promised land of Fadak
Yāsir al-Ḥabīb is a Britain-based cleric of Kuwaiti origin who aims to establish a religious state in the Persian Gulf region. This article assesses his project as a particular form of Shiite politics, in light of Peter van der Veer’s transnational theory of religious nationalism. It first examines religious conceptions of land in Twelver Shiism to situate Fadak, an oasis on the Arabian Peninsula. Fadak has been “promised land,“ pledged by the Pr…
A modern Iranian Shiite Friend of God - Nūr'alīshāh II (1867-1918)
Mystic Regimes
Sufi Authority in Khatami's Iran. Some Fieldwork Notes
Territorial bounds to virtual space
In this article we question a central trope of transnationalism and new media - deterritorialization - and its application to border crossing Internet usage by Iranian and Turkish-Kurdish migrants in the Netherlands. Their Internet usage indicates the extent to which territoriality channels these groups' online practice. We found Dutch-Iranian sites reflected correspondingly sparse offline community networks and state boundaries moulded their tra…
Hyperlinked Dutch-Iranian Cyberspace
Studies of the Dutch-Iranian diaspora are rare, but all indicate features that set it apart from other migrant communities in the Netherlands. It appears from these surveys that Dutch-Iranians have low levels of communal organization and sparsely knit networks. This article maintains that the pattern also holds for online Dutch-Iranian community structures, and builds its case on an examination of hyperlinks between websites of Iranians in the Ne…
Landmarks for 'Nowhereland
Transnational Dutch-Iranian hyperlink networks allow the exploration of relationships between virtual and physical space. According to many of its analysts, the Internet implies a virtual transcendence of place, but ethnographic approaches have convincingly redirected attention to issues of embeddedness. Here, this concept principally applies to national contexts of hyperlink production, content, and directionality. This article examines the inte…
European Shiism? Counterpoints from Shiites’ organization in Britain and the Netherlands
European Shiism is a neglected area in studies of European Islam, which raises the question of to what extent Shiism in Europe represents a particular realm of organization and a particular religiosity. Shiism’s striking transnational features, and general findings on European Islam, suggest prolific border-crossing and cross-ethnic organization among Shiites in Europe. Exploring British and Dutch cases, however, leaves little room for the notion…
Cultural migration
While distrust and divisiveness amongst Iranians in different diaspora environments have been commonly acknowledged, there are additional indications suggesting that Dutch-Iranian organizations are relatively scarce. In this article, we compare the organizational networks of Dutch-Iranians to those of Turks and Moroccans in the Netherlands. The results show that organization density is lower and fragmentation higher for Dutch-Iranians. We explain…
‘Western seminary’
In this article the author delves beneath the surface of Shiite higher education in Britain to discover whether it constitutes a case for ‘European Islam’. Juxtaposing the theorisation of Islam in Europe with a commonly unrelated body of scholarship on education and citizenship, it examines a paradox of integrative blending and foreign frames. Understanding Western Shiite education requires recognition of both local identity and transnational tie…
Conjectures on Solṭāncalīshāh, the Valāyat-nāme and Shiite Sufi authority
Few concepts if any are more central to Shiite Sufism (as to Shiism generally) than valāyat , and the current essay briefly explores its significance in and around an Iranian treatise of the early twentieth-century named the Valāyat-nāme . Three perspectives frame the discussion: the modern theory of friendship generally, Christian mystical and Islamic concepts of Friendship with God, and (Sunni and) Shiite Sufi authority. It is proposed that typ…
Christoph Marcinkowski, Shi’ite identities
In Shi’ite Identities, Christoph Marcinkowski gives us a study of Twelver Shiite ideology and practice in a variety of historical and geographical situations. He asserts with some justification tha
The balance of ecumenism and sectarianism
Foreign policy development in the Islamic Republic is often conceived through secularizing homologies of ideology and pragmatism and radicalism and moderation. Policy practice, however, has often welded their crossed terms together religiously. This article seeks to resolve some contradictions in extant models by reconceiving of Iran’s foreign policy since 1979 as a religious system that differentiates contending values hierarchically. It explore…
The promised land of Fadak
Yāsir al-Ḥabīb is a Britain-based cleric of Kuwaiti origin who aims to establish a religious state in the Persian Gulf region. This article assesses his project as a particular form of Shiite politics, in light of Peter van der Veer’s transnational theory of religious nationalism. It first examines religious conceptions of land in Twelver Shiism to situate Fadak, an oasis on the Arabian Peninsula. Fadak has been “promised land,“ pledged by the Pr…
Along the Shiite lines of sufi authority
The oeuvre of the philosopher Leo Strauss (d.1973) pivots on the audacious thesis that political esoterism – the protective covering of truth through an exoteric shell – has been central to Islamic intellectual life. Strauss’s work focusses on philosophy, but this article argues that it can be productively extended – while not applied integrally - to Sufism, Islam’s similarly contested, primary esoteric tradition. It investigates the Straussian t…
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Islamic Studies and History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · History (4 works)