100 search results for “islam and poetry” in the Library website
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Islamic World Special Collections
The main focus of the Islamic World Special Collections is on the Middle East and North Africa, with smaller holdings from Indonesia, the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia as far as Xinjiang, China.
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John Islam-van Klinken
ICT Shared Service Centre
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Nico Kaptein
Faculty of Humanities
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Alireza Asghari
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Just Witkam
Faculty of Humanities
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Abdourahamane Idrissa Abdoulaye
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Nathal Dessing
Faculty of Humanities
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Rehanna Nurmohamed
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ahab Bdaiwi
Faculty of Humanities
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Friendship in poetry - a reading list
How do we view friendship? And how have writers throughout the ages described that unconditional bond of trust in poems and literature? It's Poetry Week! And you guessed it; this year's theme is 'Friendship'. For this reading list, we went through our collections in search of the many ways friendship…
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Marie Guilleray-Guénanff
Faculty of Humanities
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Donation enables digitisation of Chinese unofficial poetry journals
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has received a donation from Dr. Freerk Heule to digitise and publish an internationally unique collection of unofficial (minjian) poetry journals from China. These poetry journals are produced outside the official infrastructure for literature in China for literature…
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Chinese unofficial poetry journals now accessible in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries has made a large number of unofficial poetry journals from China accessible online in its Digital Collections. This opens up thousands of pages from an internationally unique collection of unofficial Chinese poetry for teaching, research, and the general public, including…
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Joan Booth
Faculty of Humanities
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Fellowships
The fellowship programs support researchers who are interested in doing research using the special collections.
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A DIY tradition goes online: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
Close to twenty thousand pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry journals from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced “outside the system,” these journals are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…
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Arnold Mol
Faculty of Humanities
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Petra Sijpesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Maurits Berger
Faculty of Humanities
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Jelle Bruning
Faculty of Humanities
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Mahmood Kooriadathodi
Faculty of Humanities
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Sara Bolghiran
Faculty of Humanities
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Fitri Murfianti
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Francesco Busti
Faculty of Humanities
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Libraries participates in international research project Mediating Islam in the Digital Age
An international consortium of research institutes, universities and non-academic partners in six European countries, including Leiden University, has been awarded with a research grant from ERC Marie Curie ITN for the project Mediating Islam in the Digital Age (MIDA). On behalf of Leiden University…
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Hosna Sheikhattar
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Edmund Hayes
Faculty of Humanities
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Petra de Bruijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Drewes Fellowship
The G.W.J. Drewes Fund was invoked to celebrate the transfer of the scholarly legacy of Professor Drewes to the UBL and to mark the opening of the Asia Library in the University Library at the Witte Singel. The fund provides financial support to one or more fellowships at the Scaliger Institute. The…
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Juynboll Fellowship
The Juynboll Foundation and the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University Libraries have founded a collaborative fellowship program to enable one or two scholars to study the Arabic and Islam special collections of Leiden University Libraries. The allowance is € 1,500 per month.
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Elena Paskaleva
Faculty of Humanities
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Southeast Asian Special Collections
The Southeast Asian Special Collections contain text and audiovisual materials pertaining to the languages, histories, philosophies, religions, literatures, and (material) art of the region. The focus lies on the Malay world, in particular on the Nederlands-Indies/Indonesia. Apart from books and periodicals…
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Léon Buskens
Faculty of Humanities
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Daphne Wong-A-Foe
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ian Simpson
Faculteit Archeologie
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Peter Webb
Faculty of Humanities
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Joanita Vroom
Faculteit Archeologie
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Loes Oudenhuijsen
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Hans Theunissen
Faculty of Humanities
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Jonathan Ouellet
Faculteit Archeologie
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Afshin Ellian
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mehdy Shaddel Basir
Faculty of Humanities
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Elena Burgos Martinez
Faculty of Humanities
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Middle Eastern Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Middle Eastern Studies
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Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives
Overview of databases, reference works and websites in western languages for research in Comparative Philosophy
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Exhibitions
Library exhibitions, both online and physical, give an idea of the breadth of our collections.
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Middle Eastern Special Collections
The Middle Eastern Special Collections form the nucleus of the entire range of Oriental heritage collections of Leiden University Libraries.
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Record number of applications for fellowships at Scaliger Institute
This year the Scaliger Institute received a record number of applications from domestic and foreign submitters for a fellowship to consult and research material in the Special Collections of the University Libraries. With the financial support of a number of companies and private foundations, the UBL…
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Mayke Kaag
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Discover Leiden University's new Middle Eastern Library and take a closer look at our Middle Eastern collections
An evening program in the University Library and Middle Eastern Library in Leiden for everyone who has something to do with the Middle East; from Tajikistan to the Mahreb and from Istanbul to Sanaa. View the oldest books and clay tablets from the collection and listen to the most fascinating stories…