185 search results for “islam and poetry” in the Staff website
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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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John Islam-van KlinkenICT Shared Service Centre
- Daring questions in Islam
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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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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Abdourahamane Idrissa AbdoulayeAfrika-Studiecentrum
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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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‘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.
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
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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.
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
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Alireza AsghariFaculty 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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What does it actually say? Linguist launches video series on wall poems
The city centre of Leiden is covered in them: wall poems. When roaming around, you come across poetry written in the Latin alphabet, but also in scripts that might be more difficult to understand for the average person living in Leiden. In a new series of videos, Tijmen Pronk talks more about this.
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series
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‘Islamic primary schools have been important for Muslim emancipation’
The opening of Islamic primary schools has made an important contribution to the emancipation and integration of Muslims in the Netherlands. This is the conclusion of PhD candidate Bahaeddin Budak in his research into 25 years (1988-2013) of Islamic primary schools in the Netherlands. PhD defence on…
- What's New?! Fall 2020 Lecture Series
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Researchers 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.
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Marie Guilleray-GuénanffFaculty of Humanities
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Rehanna NurmohamedFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nathal DessingFaculty of Humanities
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Ahab BdaiwiFaculty of Humanities
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Said Reza HuseiniFaculty of Humanities
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Joan BoothFaculty of Humanities
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
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Imagining the Unimaginable: Finding the Islamic in Muslim Futures
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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A love letter to poetry: Albert Verwey Lecture by Antjie Krog
The South African poet and author Antjie Krog gave the 37th Albert Verwey Lecture in the Great Auditorium in the Academy Building on 18 November. Inspired by Verwey’s poem ‘De zegger van verzen’, Krog’s lecture was a polyphonic and multilingual love letter to poetry.
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Arnold MolFaculty of Humanities
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Jelle BruningFaculty of Humanities
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Maurits BergerFaculty of Humanities
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Mahmood KooriadathodiFaculty of Humanities
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
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Francesco BustiFaculty of Humanities
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poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
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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…
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Hosna SheikhattarFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Fitri MurfiantiFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Edmund HayesFaculty of Humanities
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: One Among Zeroes: AI, Islam and what computational analysis can teach us about religious futures
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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
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Loes OudenhuijsenAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Daphne Wong-A-FoeFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Léon BuskensFaculty of Humanities
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities