576 search results for “history of the middle east” in the Library website
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Diederik Smit
Faculty of Humanities
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Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives
Overview of databases, reference works and websites in western languages for research in Comparative Philosophy
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Medieval Manuscripts
With its more than 1400 bindings and over a thousand fragments Leiden’s collection of medieval manuscripts (up to ca. 1550) is the largest in the Netherlands.
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Yemen Amsterdam Library now available
The Yemen Amsterdam Library, or Maktabat al-Yaman al-Amstirdāmīyah, of eminent Yemen specialist Dr C.G. Brouwer has now been fully integrated in the collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL). Books and other documents from the collection are now available for loan via the UBL Catalogue.
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Library staff aim to maintain services and collections
The people behind the Leiden University Libraries aim to maintain the level of their services to clients as much as possible. They are making thankful use of internet, but not everything can be put online.
- Manuscripts, Archives and Letters outside Leiden
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Teaching with Special Collections
There are several excellent options for teachers and researchers to engage students and other audiences with primary sources. Either by requesting items from the Special Collections for use during lectures or by integrating our educational resources into your lesson plans.
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Leiden University Libraries to contribute 55,000 old printed books to online library Google
Starting in September, 55,000 books from the Leiden University Libraries will be digitized. This marks Leiden University’s contribution to the successful partnership between the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and Google.
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Exhibitions
Library exhibitions, both online and physical, give an idea of the breadth of our collections.
- Announcements
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Religious Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in religious studies.
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Jelle Plesman
Faculty of Humanities
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Alex Tutwiler
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jos Raadschelders
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Anne Heyer
Faculty of Humanities
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Jialong Liu
Faculty of Humanities
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Surya Suryadi
Faculty of Humanities
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Film and Literary Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Film and Literary Studies
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Laurens van Apeldoorn
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Aad van Mastrigt
Faculty of Humanities
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Kate Brackney
Faculty of Humanities
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Michel Doortmont
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Gabrielle van den Berg
Faculty of Humanities
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Thomas Maguire
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Patrick Gouw
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Kai Hebel
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Cisca Hoogendijk
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonor Faber-Jonker
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Roosje Peeters
Faculty of Humanities
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Stefano Bellucci
Faculty of Humanities
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Maia Casna
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mirjam de Bruijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Koen de Ceuster
Faculty of Humanities
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Michael Herzfeld
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Hakan Külcü
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Paul Hoftijzer
Faculty of Humanities
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Simon Willmetts
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Leonor Alvarez Francés
Faculty of Humanities
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Beatriz Santiago Belmonte
Faculty of Humanities
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Willem Zwalve
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Andrew Gawthorpe
Faculty of Humanities
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Liselore Tissen
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Pollmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Philosophy
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Philosophy
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Vici grants for seven researchers from Leiden University
From research on stellar winds to sign language: an impressive seven researchers from Leiden University will receive a prestigious Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Prior Fellows
Overview of the Scaliger, Brill, Elsevier, Van de Sande, Juynboll, Drewes, Isaac Alfred Ailion, Arminius and Lingling Wiyadharma Fellows who have conducted research in the Special Collections of the University Library.
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Noise due to construction works next to the UB
Facility, Library
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Medieval manuscripts made available in Europeana
Over 600 manuscripts and early prints have been made digitally available by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) via the Europeana platform. In the project 'The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ (ARMA), seven European heritage institutions added 30,000 digitised medieval items to Europeana’s database…
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Asian Library
The Asian Library holds the largest collection on Indonesia worldwide, and some of the foremost collections on South and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea.
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Asian Special Collections
The Asian special collections comprise tens of thousands of rare books, thousands of manuscripts, maps, prints, drawings and photographs, and hundreds of archives.