468 search results for “islam studies” in the Staff website
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
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Alireza AsghariFaculty of Humanities
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Nathal DessingFaculty of Humanities
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Jelle BruningFaculty of Humanities
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Arnold MolFaculty of Humanities
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
- Daring questions in Islam
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
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Islamic TV in Indonesia: piety or commodity?
In Indonesia, some Muslim preachers are TV stars with massive followings. Syahril Siddik studied how they operate and how their viewers react. On 9 November, he successfully defended his dissertation in Islamic Studies.
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Haneen OmariFaculty of Humanities
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Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast
Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. In eight episodes, professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger argues that the Islam and Muslims are an important part of European history: ‘That was…
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What can Europe learn from Islamic thought?
Islamic banking, freedom of religion, LGBTQ+ acceptance and education are topics that European Muslims find important for their future. These are the results of a survey by Professor of Islam and the West, Maurits Berger. The survey is the starting point of a citizen project in which Berger wants to…
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Large grant for research into Islamic non-conformism
In the coming years, Asghar Seyed Gohrab receives an advanced European Research Council grant of two and a half million euros to spend on his research into non-conformism in Islam. ‘Hopefully I can use this to contribute something to society, to pass something on to future generations.’
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Tsolin NalbantianFaculty of Humanities
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Feminist fatwas of female Islamic scholars
It matters a lot whether a fatwa is given by a female or male Islamic scholar, discovered doctoral student Nor Ismah.
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‘Islam is a constant in Europe’: new Humanities podcast delves into the history of Islam
‘Islam and Muslims are not something that happened to Europe; they are part of Europe. In fact, Islam is one the biggest constants in European history,’ argues Professor Maurits Berger in the new eight-part History of Islam in Europe podcast series of the Leiden University Faculty of Humanities.
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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
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‘Islamic primary schools have been important for Muslim emancipation’
The opening of Islamic primary schools has made an important contribution to the emancipation and integration of Muslims in the Netherlands. This is the conclusion of PhD candidate Bahaeddin Budak in his research into 25 years (1988-2013) of Islamic primary schools in the Netherlands. PhD defence on…
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Verena MeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Researchers from Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Ugur DerinFaculty of Humanities
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Shuqi JiaFaculty of Humanities
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
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Awarded ERC Consolidator Grant for groundbreaking research on Pre-Islamic Arabia
Dr Peter Webb (LIAS) has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for his project Geo-Poetic Analysis of Pre-Islamic Arabia (GeoPo).
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Onur AdaFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden University Press
Leiden University Press publishes academic books and journals, primarily in the field of humanities and social and behavioural sciences. The press focuses on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, History (Global, Military, Environmental) Archaeology, Asian Studies, Environmental Studies, Literary Studies,…
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Erik-jan ZurcherFaculty of Humanities
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Hosna SheikhattarFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Bareez MajidFaculty of Humanities
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Fitri MurfiantiFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Christopher GreenFaculty of Humanities
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Fatiha Azzarhouni: ‘Even during Covid, Ramadan is about fasting'
Mosques with limited opening hours, fewer family visits and fewer events: for the second time, Ramadan was different due to Covid. Islamologist and deputy director of the Leiden Islam Academie Fatiha Azzarhouni looks back on a special month.
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Xiao LuoFaculty of Humanities
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Cristiana StravaFaculty of Humanities
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Francesca Rosati
Faculty of Humanities
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Geoffrey Cain
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk Schulte NordholtFaculty of Humanities
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Rizal ShidiqFaculty of Humanities
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Crewe Williams
Faculty of Humanities
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Amirardalan EmamiFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten KossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Daphne Wong-A-FoeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Caroline Fernandes CaromanoFaculty of Humanities
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Was There Indeed a Decline of Ambiguity in Islamic Modernity? Deathbed Emotions as a Case Study
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?!
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Marat MarkertFaculty of Humanities
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Tolga Güneri