Léon Buskens has a chair for “Law and Culture in Muslim Societies” at Leiden University and is currently the director of the Dutch Institute in Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat. His main interests are Islamic law in Morocco and its relations to local social practices—on which he published a monograph in 1999—as well as heritage making in Morocco, and the history of Orientalism and anthropology. He edited Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century: Transformations and Continuities (Amsterdam University Press, 2016) with Annemarie van Sandwijk and Scholarship in Action: Essays on the Life and Work of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) (Brill, 2021) with Annemarie van Sandwijk and Jan Just Witkam.