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450 search results for “islam and the werkt” in the Staff website

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  Nathal Dessing University Lecturer Anthropology of Religion

  Faculty of Humanities

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  John Islam-van Klinken Asset Manager

  ISSC

• Daring questions in Islam

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  Jan Just Witkam Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

• What can Europe learn from Islamic thought? News - 22 July 2022

  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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  Verena Meyer University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Large grant for research into Islamic non-conformism News - 22 April 2021

  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.’

• Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast News - 4 March 2022

  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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  Maurits Berger Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• ‘Islam is a constant in Europe’: new Humanities podcast delves into the history of Islam News - 7 February 2022

  ‘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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  Alireza Asghari
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  Nico Kaptein Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

• Islamic TV in Indonesia: piety or commodity? News - 9 November 2021

  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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  Petra Sijpesteijn Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Abdourahamane Idrissa Abdoulaye University Lecturer Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022 Event
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  Jelle Bruning University Lecturer Middle Eastern Studies / Arabic

  Faculty of Humanities

• Feminist fatwas of female Islamic scholars News - 2 January 2023

  It matters a lot whether a fatwa is given by a female or male Islamic scholar, discovered doctoral student Nor Ismah.

• What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022 Event
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  Ahab Bdaiwi University Lecturer Arabic and Medieval Philosophy and Late Antique Intellectual History

  Faculty of Humanities

• ‘Islamic primary schools have been important for Muslim emancipation’ News - 31 May 2021

  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…

• Researchers from Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’ News - 9 August 2022

  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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  Sara Bolghiran PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Elena Paskaleva Assistant Professor Critical Heritage Studies of Asia and Europe

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ian Simpson Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Edmund Hayes University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Arnold Mol PhD candidate / lecturer Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

• Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series Event
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  Petra de Bruijn University Lecturer Turkish Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Crystal Ennis University Lecturer Political Economies of the Middle East

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Corey Williams Senior university lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hans Theunissen University Lecturer Turkish Studies/Islamic Art and Material Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tsolin Nalbantian Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ifdal El Saket Assistant Director Arabic and Islamic Studies / Guest

  Administration and Central Services

• Awarded ERC Consolidator Grant for groundbreaking research on Pre-Islamic Arabia News - 9 December 2025

  Dr Peter Webb (LIAS) has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for his project Geo-Poetic Analysis of Pre-Islamic Arabia (GeoPo).

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  Léon Buskens Director NIMAR

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Harry Stroomer Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Fitri Murfianti PhD

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Hosna Sheikhattar External PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Tolga Güneri Project coordinator

  Student and Educational Support

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  Remke Kruk Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Arnoud Vrolijk
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  Karin Scheper Senior Conservator

  Leiden University Libraries

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  Joanita Vroom Professor Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Afshin Ellian Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Loes Oudenhuijsen PhD candidate

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Francianne Dos Santos Velho Skills Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Haneen Omari University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mat Immerzeel Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Arnout van Ree Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities