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1,875 search results for “islam history” in the Public website

• Indonesia and Leiden University have a shared history – and a shared future News - 19 June 2019

  Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will head a delegation that is visiting Indonesia at the end of June. The visit is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ‘Leiden’ institute KITLV-Jakarta. What does this institute do and why is Indonesia important to the University?

• MA Fall Semester Arabic & Islamic Studies for students of Dutch and Flemish Universities Course
• The intimate voice of the Russian Avant-garde: adapting the aesthetic self and the rise of Socialist Realism Research project

  This proposed research uses ego-documents from visual artists that were not intended for publication to reassess the scholarly debate on the demise of the Russian Avant-garde aesthetic in the twenties and early thirties of the 20th century.

• Asia and the UN Research project

  Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

• Transkribus in Education: Developing Digital Literacy with Historical Sources Research project

  In this project, researchers and lecturers from LUCAS, ICLON and UBL join forces to publish expertise and experience in the field of machine learning and AI as open learning materials for secondary education.

• Tromble & Meffert, 'The Life and Death of Frames' Research output

  Political scientists Rebekah Tromble and Michael Meffert (Leiden University) address the question why certain frames persist over time in the media while others fade away and still others disappear very quickly. They suggest an approach based in event-history methodologies for assessing the causes of…

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  Ariette Dekker Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Wim Blockmans Professor Emeritus of

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tamsin Prideaux Postdoc / Marie Curie fellow

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Carolina Lenarduzzi Visiting Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  André Knulst Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Martijn Treur

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  Brianne Wesolowski Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Daniele Paolini Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Khizar Jawad Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• Education Papyrological Institute

  Leiden University offers courses about papyri and papyrology for beginners and more advanced students (BA and MA), both based on texts in translation as well as in the original source languages, from Egyptian to Greek, Latin and Arabic.

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  Wouter van Beek

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• From Homo Economicus to Political Animal Research project

  Who is Economic Man? Every economic paradigm presupposes an anthropology, a theory of human nature. This project explores the anthropologies presupposed and produced by ancient Greek economic texts, and the specific knowledge forms that shape these anthropologies.

• Stone: Shii Funerary inscriptions and Religious Identity in Early Islamic Egypt Event - 27 June 2025

  Lecture

• The Third Avant-garde: contemporary art from Southeast Asia recalling tradition Research project

  How are contemporary art practices from Southeast Asia negotiating notions of art and tradition?

• Week 6: 11–17 February Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo

• Current guest researchers Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo

• Resilient Diversity: the Governance of Racial and Religious Plurality in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800 Research project

  Resilient Diversity: the Governance of Racial and Religious Plurality in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800

• Geographical Revolution in Humanist Commentaries on Pliny's Natural History and Mela's De situ orbis (140-1700) Research output

  'The World Upside Down. The Geographical Revolution in Humanist Commentaries on Pliny's Natural History and Mela's De situ orbis (140-1700)', in: Enenkel, K.A.E. & Nellen, H. (Eds.), Neo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (1400-1700).Humanistica…

• ‘Vestito a ponti d’oro e a cento corde in seno’: history, repertoire and playing techniques of the Italian salterio in the eighteenth century Research output

  This research aims to fully recall these lost sound aspects of the eighteenth century and is, therefore, a study that passionately advocates the diversity of musical experience in the context of historical performance practice.

• Between the Holy Land and the World. A connected history of Christian communities in the Near East via the unpublished photographic collections Research project

  The project ‘Between the Holy Land and the World’ proposes a connected history of the Christian communities in the Near East (1900-1948) by means of a study of unpublished Franciscan and Dominican photographic collections.

• Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression Research output

  The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…

• Economic thinking in the Socratic authors and Aristotle Research project

  This subproject of 'From Homo Economicus to Political Animal' analyzes Greek economic thinking in late 5th- and 4th-century philosophical circles.

• Pluralism Under Pressure: Islamism, Liberalism and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond Event - 9 June 2026

  Lecture, Book presentation

• The Founder of Bon, the Birth of a Myth Research output

  In this dissertation, the life account is constructed of of the founder of Bon Religion, Shenrab Miwo.

• The Informed Performer- Towards a bio-culturally informed performers’ practice Research output

  Playing a musical instrument is generally considered to be a complex human behaviour involving the integration and coordination of a broad range of human functions such as perception, imagination, memory, information processing, emotion, communication, and dexterity.

• Victorian Fairy Tales Research output

  Victorian Fairy Tales

• Reconstructing the past through languages of the present: The Lesser Sunda Islands Research project

  What can languages spoken in the Lesser Sunda Islands today tell us about the histories of its various population groups?

• Scholarships Portal for prospective Indonesian Students

  Leiden University works close with Indonesian and Dutch scholarship providers in order to expand the opportunities for Indonesian students to study in Leiden.

• Collections Middle Eastern Library in Leiden

  The new Middle Eastern Library (MEL) will bring together the UBL's own Middle Eastern collections and the collections of the library of The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO), which has been part of the Leiden University Libraries since 1st January 2018.

• The Institutional Embedding of Shiʿi Imams: Kinship, Caliphs, Courts and Companions (700-900) Event - 13 January 2027

  Conference, Call for Papers

• Empire's Violent End. Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945-1962 Research output

  In the last two decades, there have been heated public and scholarly debates in France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands on the violent end of empire. Nevertheless, the broader comparative investigations into colonial counterinsurgency tend to leave atrocities such as torture, execution, and…

• The Materiality of Ziyāra in the Early Islamic World Tombs, Shrines, Practices and Politics (ca. 650-1300 CE) Event - 27 October 2025

  Conference

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  Terence Renaud Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mariken Teeuwen Professor by special appointment

  Faculty of Humanities

• Sanjar Gulomov will be Central Asia Erasmus Fellow in December 2018 News - 28 November 2018

  Sanjar Golomov is a senior scholar at the Al-Biruni Institute in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In Leiden he will deliver two lectures and one masterclass for MA and PhD students as part of the Erasmus Mobility Plus project between Leiden University and the Al-Biruni Institute. The project is coordinated and…

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  Bart Verheijen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Karin Scheper Senior Conservator

  Leiden University Libraries

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  Arnoud Vrolijk Guest

  Leiden University Libraries

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  Remke Kruk Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tolga Güneri Project coordinator

• LUCIS Annual Conference brings Shiʿi studies to the forefront News - 2 November 2018

  On 14 and 15 November, the LUCIS Annual Conference takes place in Leiden. Scholars from diverse backgrounds will come together to share their research on all branches of Shiʿi Islam.

• The Resistance of the World Research project

  This project will construct an inventory of possible conceptions of the resistance of the world to scientists’ claims and theories.

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  Alexander Geurds Dean / Professor

• Secular-religious self-improvement Research output

  Jasmijn Rana demonstrates in the article 'Secular-religious self-improvement: Muslim women’s kickboxing in the Netherlands' that young Muslim women who kickbox develop agentive selves by challenging gender norms and living out their religious subjectivities.