667 search results for “islam history” in the Student website
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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
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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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Edmund HayesFaculty of Humanities
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…
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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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Jelle BruningFaculty of Humanities
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Arnold MolFaculty of Humanities
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John Islam-van KlinkenISSC
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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…
- Daring questions in Islam
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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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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Ahab BdaiwiFaculty of Humanities
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
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Nathal DessingFaculty of Humanities
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Maurits BergerFaculty of Humanities
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Vici for Petra Sijpesteijn: 'Islamic Empire rapidly became unified'
After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the Islamic Empire expanded at a tremendous pace. Within a hundred years, it stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian subcontinent. How did such a rapidly conquered territory become one empire? Professor Petra Sijpesteijn has been awarded a Vici grant…
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Marlou SchroverFaculty of Humanities
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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen TouwenFaculty of Humanities
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Leo LucassenFaculty of Humanities
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Rens TacomaFaculty of Humanities
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Anahita ArianFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marlisa den HartogFaculty of Humanities
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Dennie Oude NijhuisFaculty of Humanities
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
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Eileen van der BurghFaculty of Humanities
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Nina Witteman
Faculty of Humanities
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Femme GaastraFaculty of Humanities
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Willem OtterspeerFaculty of Humanities
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Luuk de LigtFaculty of Humanities
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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
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Ben SchoenmakerFaculty of Humanities
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Randal SheppardFaculty of Humanities
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Geo-Poetics and the Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabian History
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Anne-Isabelle RichardFaculty of Humanities
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Henk KernFaculty of Humanities
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Evelien WalhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
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Nicolette MoutFaculty of Humanities
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John KegelAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Lauren LauretFaculty of Humanities
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Verena MeyerFaculty of Humanities