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Annelies Moors studied Arabic at the University of Damascus and Arabic and anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She held the chair for contemporary Muslim societies at the department of anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Currently she is professor emerita at the University of Amsterdam. From 2001-2008 she has been the Amsterdam chair of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World. She has held visiting positions at the University of San’a, Yemen, and was Honorably Visiting Professor at the London School of Fashion (London University of the Arts). She was the primary investigator of an international NORFACE research program on The emergence of Islamic fashion in Europe, and of the NWO Cultural Dynamics program on Islamic cultural practices and performances: New youth cultures in Europe.  Until early 2020 she was the primary investigator of the NWO program Muslim Activism in the Netherlands after 1989 (senior researcher: Martijn de Koning) and of the ERC advanced grant Problematizing "Muslim Marriages": Ambiguities and Contestations (for more information see http://religionresearch.org/musmar2014/). From September 2022 till February 2023 she was an individual fellow at NIAS for the project The Struggle for the Future of Ethnography .   

She has published widely on gender, nation, religion, and class in such fields as Muslim family law and Islamic marriages, wearing gold, the visual media (postcards of Palestine), migrant domestic labor, Islamic fashion and anti-fashion, and wearing face-veils. Her most recent publication is Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage: Where Religion and Politics Meet Intimate Life (Leuven University Press 2023). co-edited with Julie McBrien, and is supervising five PhD students. 

Email: a.c.a.e.moors at uva.nl