821 search results for “intellectual islamic history” in the Staff website
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Ahab BdaiwiFaculty of Humanities
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Arnold MolFaculty of Humanities
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Book Launch: Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam
Lecture
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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
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Maja VodopivecFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Willem OtterspeerFaculty 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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John Islam-van KlinkenICT Shared Service Centre
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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.
- Daring questions in Islam
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Edmund HayesFaculty of Humanities
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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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Anne-Isabelle RichardFaculty of Humanities
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
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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…
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Alireza AsghariFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Mahmood KooriadathodiFaculty of Humanities
- Global Histories of Knowledge 2023 - 2024
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Patrick DassenFaculty of Humanities
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Kiri ParamoreFaculty of Humanities
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Back to the roots of Shia Islam: ‘We need to get the full picture.'
When discussing the history of Islam, the focus is almost always on the history of the Sunni majority. University Lecturer in the history of Islam, Edmund Hayes wants this to change. His new ERC-funded project , focuses on the development of the early Shia community.
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What can Europe learn from Islamic thought?
Islamic banking, freedom of religion, LGBTQ+ acceptance and education are topics that European Muslims find important for their future. These are the results of a survey by Professor of Islam and the West, Maurits Berger. The survey is the starting point of a citizen project in which Berger wants to…
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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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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Lionel LaborieFaculty of Humanities
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Islamic TV in Indonesia: piety or commodity?
In Indonesia, some Muslim preachers are TV stars with massive followings. Syahril Siddik studied how they operate and how their viewers react. On 9 November, he successfully defended his dissertation in Islamic Studies.
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Jelle BruningFaculty of Humanities
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Said Reza HuseiniFaculty of Humanities
- Histories Connected
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Nathal DessingFaculty of Humanities
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Dennie Oude NijhuisFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien BoenderFaculty of Humanities
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Feminist fatwas of female Islamic scholars
It matters a lot whether a fatwa is given by a female or male Islamic scholar, discovered doctoral student Nor Ismah.
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Rehanna NurmohamedFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
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Jeannette KampFaculty of Humanities
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History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Jiyan QiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Alexander OdleFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Willem LeppinkFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jeroen TouwenFaculty of Humanities
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Herman PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Marlisa den HartogFaculty of Humanities
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Leo LucassenFaculty of Humanities