1,391 search results for “ancient arabic” in the Public website
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Coping With the Gods
Inspired by a critical reconsideration of current monolithic approaches to the study of Greek religion, this book argues that ancient Greeks displayed a disquieting capacity to validate two (or more) dissonant, if not contradictory, representations of the divine world in a complementary rather than…
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Papyrological Institute
The Leiden Papyrological Institute is the only papyrological institute in the Netherlands. The members of our staff publish Greek (and Latin), Demotic (and Abnormal-Hieratic) and Coptic papyri from collections all over the world, including our own collection.
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Mrs. Naunakhte & Family
The Women of Ramesside Deir al-Medina
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Admission and Application
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News and events
News, events, announcements, social media and more about the building of the new Middle Eastern Library in Leiden
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for Classics (research) at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for Egyptology at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for Hebrew and Aramaic Studies at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for Egyptology (research) at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for Egyptology at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
- MA Fall Semester Arabic & Islamic Studies for students of Dutch and Flemish Universities
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European foreign policy in times of crisis: a political development lens
EU foreign policy has become increasingly politicised over the past years, amongst others as a consequence of the succession of crises. Crises may engender processes of crisis framing and contestation. This article focuses on how the policy demands being voiced in these processes of contestation are…
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Culture and Society in Morocco
Do you want to do your minor in Morocco? Then choose the minor Culture and Society in Morocco! You’ll learn about Moroccan culture, society and languages, and receive solid training in ethnographic research methods.
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Migration
Better discussions and policy on migration, grounded in academic research and expertise.
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Margaretha FolmerFaculty of Humanities
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Philosophical Research
Explore the research of the Institute for Philosophy, organised into five centres that connect historical and systematic approaches to ethics, logic, and the history of ideas.
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Adriaan RademakerFaculty of Humanities
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Ineke SluiterFaculty of Humanities
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Rob DemaréeFaculty of Humanities
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René van WalsemFaculty of Humanities
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Archaeology
At the Faculty of Archaeology, we investigate the development of human societies worldwide, from the earliest beginnings to modern times. We also study the heritage of mankind, which evokes this deep history, and which connects with, and informs, contemporary society.
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Research
Overview of the main research projects at the Leiden Papyrological Institute.
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What’s in a plant?
Tracking early human behaviour through plant processing and -exploitation.
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Shamanic Knowledge
Mazatec chants and ancient Mesoamerican pictography
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Roman Fake News? Documentary Fictions in the Roman Empire
How can theories about modern disinformation help to understand how Roman documentary fictions functioned?
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for the MA Ancient History at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for Hebrew and Aramaic Studies at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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- BA Spring Semester Arabic & Islamic Studies for students of Dutch and Flemish Universities
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PURANA: Mythical Discourse and Religious Agency in the Puranic Ecumene
This project receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101054849 (PURANA).
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Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History
This seminal volume covers the entire global history of urbanization since the rise of cities in Mesopotamia in the 6th millennium BC. Leiden historians Wim Blockmans, Leonard Blussé, Luuk de Ligt and Leo Lucassen contributed survey and thematic chapters.
- Indo-European II
- Classics
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Winged Words
The prehistory of communication metaphors
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El Lienzo de Otla
Memoria de un Paisaje Sagrado
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The urban labour market of Roman Italy
This thesis analyses the existence and the functioning of the urban labour market in the early Roman empire by looking at the crucial influence of social structures, such as the family and non-familial labour collectives.
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Building tabernae
This project focuses on urban commercial space in Roman Italy and deals with the impact of economic growth on urban communities in the late Republic and the Imperial period (200 BCE – 300 CE).
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ERC Starting Grant for prof.dr. Remco Breuker
Professor of Korean Studies Remco Breuker has been awarded a subsidy from the European Research Council to study the dispute between both Koreas and China on the history of Manchuria.
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Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 22
Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 22, 2006
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Irrigating the Desert
Water Management, Agricultural Practices, and Social Complexity in Southern Turkmenistan during the Bronze Age
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Poetry and power: the appreciation of the verse in Seljuq and Ilkhanid chronicles : the case of Rāḥat al-Ṣudūr and Jāmiʿ al-Tavārīkh
On Wednesday 20 November 2024 Sara Mirahmadi successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Creating capitals
The rationale, construction, and function of the imperial capitals of Assyria
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Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Almost all languages of Europe and of a large part of western Asia belong to a single language family, which is called Indo-European, and which includes modern languages like English, Dutch, Russian, Farsi, but also ancient ones like Ancient Greek, Latin, Hittite and Sanskrit.
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The Complete Archaeology of Greece
This book covers the story of Greece and its central role in our understanding of European civilization, from the Palaeolithic era (400,000 BP) to the early modern period (1950 AD).
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Dogmatism: On the History of a Scholarly Vice
Why does the history of dogmatism deserve our attention? This open access book analyses uses of the term, following dogmatism from Victorian Britain to Cold War America, examining why it came to be regarded as a vice, and how understandings of its meaning have evolved.
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Bergson and the Aristotelian model of immanent teleology
This dissertation addresses the different use of the same philosophical model: immanent teleology. In this work Aristotle, the founder of the study of final causes, is put in relation with the modern French evolutionary thinker Henri Bergson, the philosopher of time. The dissertation tackles the two…