545 search results for “medieval islamic history” in the Staff website
-
Suzan ten Heuw
Faculty of Humanities
-
Nadia Bouras
Faculty of Humanities
-
Imagining the Unimaginable: Finding the Islamic in Muslim Futures
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
-
Krista Murchison receives Veni grant for ‘Righting and Rewriting History’
Krista Murchison, University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, received a Veni grant of 250.000 euros. Her Veni-project will explore the ‘immaterial archive’ and its social and historical significance by digitally recreating manuscripts that were destroyed during World…
-
Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
-
NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from?
Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a grant from NIAS to map their origins.
-
Social media
Social media is a good way to meet others or to hear about the latest news and developments. It is an excellent way to tell people about what you are doing and to hear what they are up to too. But social media also has its downsides: disinformation, trolling, disrespectful comments and even the misuse…
-
Lukas Milevski
Faculty of Humanities
-
William Michael Schmidli
Faculty of Humanities
-
Tessa de Boer
Faculty of Humanities
-
Alain Wijffels
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Renaming Ambiguity: Modernist Dream Encounters in Islamic Indonesia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
-
Factory Girls, Sex Workers, and Minorities: Writing the Marginalized in History
Hanan Hammad and Eftychia Mylona give a master class focusing on conceptual and methodological challenges in writing histories of marginalized social groups.
-
Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
-
Joanita Vroom
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Léon Buskens
Faculty of Humanities
-
Daphne Wong-A-Foe
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
-
Loes Oudenhuijsen
Afrika-Studiecentrum
-
Ian Simpson
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Weishuo Li
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Mette Langbroek
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Jürgen Zangenberg
Faculty of Humanities
-
Anne Gerritsen
Faculty of Humanities
-
Fan Lin
Faculty of Humanities
-
Exhibition Books that made history
From Galileo Galilei to Albert Einstein and from Anna Maria van Schurman to Anton de Kom: only a selection of the 25 authors who's books and ideas had extraordinary historical impact, in some cases even to this day. Leiden University Libraries and the National Museum of Antiquities jointly present the…
-
Lecture by Al-Babtain Visiting Fellow Salwa El-Awa
Dr. Salwa El-Awa delivers a talk on Wednesday, November 2nd, on "Ambiguity in the Qur'an".
-
Sculptures provide more diverse view of University’s history
Three new initiatives will provide a more diverse view of Leiden’s academic history, literally and figuratively: a historical study on the background of students and scientists, a new book about the Academy Building, and two new sculptures of female scientists, Ewine van Dishoek, Professor of Molecular…
-
Koen Marijt is crazy about history: 'So much has happened within one kilometre of Rapenburg'
Anyone who has taken a walk through the centre of Leiden before might have come across him, an attentive group of tourists gathered around. After studying history, Koen van Toen, or Koen Marijt, started his own business. He now organises historical walks, among other things.
-
Jonathan Ouellet
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Afshin Ellian
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Letty ten Harkel
Faculteit Archeologie
-
The Processes of Conversion to Islam in Contemporary Spain: From the Betrayal of Spain to Community Insertion
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
-
Raymond Fagel
Faculty of Humanities
-
Careful Waiting in the Last Phase of Life: Islam, Medicine and Life-Limiting Illness in Indonesia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
-
Religious Discourse and Tribal Affiliation in Early Islamic Ifrīqiya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
-
How do European Muslims see their future?
Professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger wants to use citizen science to answer this question. On the futureofislam.eu website, he is inviting European Muslims to complete an anonymous survey about how they see their future and the role of Islam in this. He will present the first findings at the…
-
LUCAS Conference 'Practices in Comparative Medievalism'
Conference
-
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.
- Forgotten heroes
-
University history complete: Otterspeer presents fourth volume
At the Dies Natalis Willem Otterspeer, Professor Emeritus of University History, presented the fourth and final volume of Groepsportret met Dame, his series on the history of Leiden University. De 'Strategie van de Aanpassing' covers the period 1876-1975. Otterspeer talked about his book in a podcast…
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series
-
Alex Tutwiler
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Fransiskus Widiyarso
Faculty of Humanities
-
Surya Suryadi
Faculty of Humanities
-
Jelle Plesman
Faculty of Humanities
-
Anne Heyer
Faculty of Humanities
-
Jos Raadschelders
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
-
Jialong Liu
Faculty of Humanities
-
LUCAS Medieval and Early Modern Cluster Meeting
Lecture
-
Diederik Smit
Faculty of Humanities