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Modern Arabic titles in catalogue searchable in Arabic script News - 27 October 2022
Modern Arabic titles in the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) can now also be consulted in original Arabic script. Taking away the need to transliterate titles, has made searching for Arabic source materials in the catalogue much easier and more efficient for users.

Peter Webb University Lecturer Arabic Literature and Culture
Faculty of Humanities

Jelle Bruning University Lecturer Middle Eastern Studies / Arabic
Faculty of Humanities

Documentary - Restoring the eleventh-century Arabic manuscript De Materia Medica News - 22 January 2025
Water damage, old restorations and copper corrosion in some illustrations. De Materia Medica has been through a lot over the centuries. The manuscript dates from 1083 AD and is one of the oldest illustrated Arabic manuscripts in the world. Due to intensive use, De Materia Medica was no longer in good…

Ahab Bdaiwi University Lecturer Arabic and Medieval Philosophy and Late Antique Intellectual History
Faculty of Humanities

Workshop: Arabic manuscripts and how to read them Event - 6 November 2024
Workshop

Searching for items in non-Latin script
Leiden University Libraries hosts materials in hundreds of different languages, including many languages that are written in non-Latin scripts. Since 2015, all items are catalogued in the original scripts. Therefore, you may use for instance Arabic, Persian, Russian, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean or Chinese…

Juynboll Fellowship
The Juynboll Foundation and the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University Libraries have founded a collaborative fellowship program to enable one or two scholars to study the Arabic and Islam special collections of Leiden University Libraries. The allowance is € 1,500 per month.

Remke Kruk Professor emeritus of Arabic Language and Culture
Faculty of Humanities

Hebrew, Semitic and Armenian Special Collections
The Library of Leiden University holds c. 550 manuscripts and an extensive collection of rare printed books in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, the languages of Ethiopia, South Arabic, Coptic and Armenian, as well as a collection of rare books on the Jewish World.

Petra Sijpesteijn Professor of Arabic
Faculty of Humanities

Uncatalogued materials from the Middle East now available through Leiden University Libraries’ catalogue News - 20 July 2020
A collection of uncatalogued books from the Middle East is now available through the Leiden University Libraries’ (UBL) catalogue. The collection contains over 12,000 books mainly written in Arabic, but also in multiple other languages from the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, including Persian,…

Visit ambassadors to the University Library Special Collections News - 18 December 2019
Special visit of seven ambassadors of the Arabic-speaking world to the University Library

Honorary doctorate for Arabist Beatrice Gründler News - 30 January 2023
Beatrice Gründler, professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin, will receive an honorary doctorate in Oriental Manuscript Studies from Leiden University.

Collection on the Italian occupation of Libya donated News - 1 May 2018
UBL recently received a donation of some five hundred books on the Italian occupation of Libya and on Arabic linguistics. UBL gratefully acknowledges this donation by a Leiden University alumnus.