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307 search results for “middle eastern literary” in the Library website

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  Gerrit Dusseldorp Associate professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Thijs Porck Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• International Studies

  This Subject Guide will provide you with an overview of useful databases and online resources available within and outside the University Library. This subject guide is your starting point, aiding you in finding sources for any research field within the field of International Studies and International…

• Manuscripts, Archives and Letters outside Leiden

• English Language and Culture

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in English language and culture.

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  Raafat Shamieh Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Babak Rezaeedaryakenari Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Research suggestions

  The research suggestions below may be suitable for a bachelor's or master's thesis or can be used as additional source material in ongoing research.

• Library organisation

  Leiden University has several library locations. These libraries are part of one organisation: Leiden University Libraries (UBL). The UBL includes the University Library, the Social and Behavioural Sciences Library, the Law Library, the Science Library, the Asian Library, the Middle Eastern Library, the African…

• Borrow

  Leiden University Libraries (UBL) owns over 5 million paper materials. Loanable items can be picked up and returned at the UBL library location of your choice.

• Letters

  According to a rough estimate the western manuscripts collections and (private) archives contain some 500,000 letters, of which over 300,000 are catalogued. The letters kept in the University archives are not catalogued; the same holds for most letters kept in the oriental collections. They can be found…

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  Bleda Düring Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Petr Kopecky Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• 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.

• Leiden Yemeni manuscripts now digitally available News - 16 September 2020

  Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently digitized circa 150 Yemeni manuscripts and has made them freely available for research and education. The manuscripts, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, were digitized as part of the Zaydi Manuscript Tradition project. Yemen has been marked…

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  Maria Dijkgraaf Study adviser/Education coordinator

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sanjukta Poddar University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jonathan Silk Professor of Buddhist Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ab de Jong Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nico Kaptein Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

• Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites in western languages for research in Comparative Philosophy

• Donation of early twentieth-century glass negatives and prints from the Arabian Peninsula News - 11 November 2021

  On Thursday 11 November, Jan Jaap Hooft and Marjon Hooft donated a special collection of glass negatives and photographic prints from the Arabian Peninsula to Leiden University Libraries (UBL). The collection is part of the estate of their grandfather Jan Albert Hooft (1883-1972). Hooft held a position…

• New in the Leiden collections: the Amsterdam Yemen Library News - 30 June 2021

  The collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been enriched with the Maktabat al-Yaman al-Amstirdāmīyah, or Amsterdam Yemen Library. This collection, which exists of about a thousand books, journals and maps, is the largest coherent Yemen collection in The Netherlands and was brought together…

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  Esther Edelmann Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Arent Pol PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Lettie Dorst Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Searching for book reviews

  Book reviews give you a quick overview of the main arguments, quality and structure of a book.

• Italian Language and Culture

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Italian Language and Culture

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  Ernst van Alphen Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nadine Akkerman Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bo Wang Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  David Pieter Schaper Ict developer

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Ashleigh Morris PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

• Leiden University Libraries participates in international research project Mediating Islam in the Digital Age News - 16 July 2018

  An international consortium of research institutes, universities and non-academic partners in six European countries, including Leiden University, has been awarded with a research grant from ERC Marie Curie ITN for the project Mediating Islam in the Digital Age (MIDA). On behalf of Leiden University…

• Library closures around 3 October Announcement - 22 September 2025

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  Marie Soressi Professor of Hominin Diversity Archaeology

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Elena Paskaleva Assistant Professor Critical Heritage Studies of Asia and Europe

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Burcu Yildirim PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Julia Krul Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Religious Studies

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in religious studies.

• Art & Art History

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Art & Art History

• Archaeology

  Overview of databases and reference works for research in Archaeology.

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  Yunnan Ye PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Antoinette Huijbers Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Nina Jaspers PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

• Library holidays for April and 5 May Announcement - 8 April 2025

  Library

• Fellowships

  The fellowship programs support researchers who are interested in doing research using the special collections.

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  Dorine Schellens University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Krista A. Milne Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Paul Smith Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities