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2,207 search results for “islam studies” in the Public website

• Extracurricular Middle Eastern Studies (MA)

  Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.

• Research Schools and Academic Institutes Graduate School of Archaeology

  Research Schools aim at collaboration between researchers from different faculties (interfaculty schools) and universities (interuniversity schools).

• A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments Research output

  As a critical commemoration of its centenary, this book presents a mosaic of one hundred carefully curated fragments by expert authors, shedding light on politics, economy, society, culture, gender, and arts in a hundred years of Turkey.

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  Peter Verhagen Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

• Charity, Sovereignties, and the Social Contract Entangled Universals of Transnational Islamic Charity

• Waarom stichten jullie niet een eigen school?: religieuze identiteitsontwikkeling van islamitische basisscholen 1988-2013 Research output

  On the 9th of June Bahaddin Budak successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

• Leiden Institute for Area Studies Humanities

  To truly understand complex regions such as the Middle East and Asia, you have to know their culture, history and local societies inside out. Driven by curiosity for other cultures, the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) provides an understanding and analysis of current and historical…

• Destination Syria: An Exploratory Study into the Daily Lives of Dutch 'Syria Travellers' Research output

  What does the daily life of those who travelled to Syria to join jihadist groups look like? Destination Syria, a new ISGA report, provides answers to this question

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  Boudewijn Walraven Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Xiao Luo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Extracurricular Middle Eastern Studies (research) (MA)

  Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.

• Languages, cultures and worldviews

  Studying one another’s languages and cultures fosters understanding between groups of people, which leads to more equality, along with increased economic, administrative, and cultural cooperation.

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  Joanita Vroom Professor Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Maghiel van Crevel Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Cristiana Strava University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Arsjad Muradin Guest Staff Member

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

• The cultural network: Javanese imaginings of Indonesia, 1918–1966 Research output

  On Wednesday 21 May Adrian Perkasa successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

• Jebel Qurma Archaeological Landscape Project Research project

  The project seeks to come to an understanding of the archaeology of the desert and the ways in which its inhabitants engaged with their constraint, marginal environments through time. It compares and interprets site distribution and community organisation over a long time scale and across several different…

• Religion in a Changing World

  Religion is everywhere. Knowledge of religion is essential for anyone who wants to understand the world. Are you fascinated by the diversity of religions, their development throughout history and their meaning today?

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  Henk Schulte Nordholt Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Shirley Alexander PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Francesca Rosati PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Geoffrey Cain PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Steven Hagers PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Thy Name is Deer. Animal Names in Semitic Onomastics and Name- Giving Traditions: Evidence from Akkadian, Northwest Semitic, and Arabic Research output

  Hekmat Dirbas defended his thesis on 14 February 2017

• Meet our staff Middle Eastern Studies (research) (MA)

• Past events Entangled Universals of Transnational Islamic Charity

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  Rizal Shidiq University Lecturer, Economies in South and Southeast Asia

  Faculty of Humanities

• Arabic and its Alternatives Research output

  Arabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War.

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  Ifdal El Saket Assistant Director Arabic and Islamic Studies / Guest

  Administration and Central Services

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  Edegar Da Conceição Savio

  Faculty of Humanities

• Monotheism in Medieval Islamic Thought Event - 3 February 2025

  Conference

• The Last Sharia Court in Europe Research output

  A Jurist's Travelogue

• Punching Back - Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing Research output

  Punching Back is a detailed ethnographic study that demonstrates that young Muslim women who kickbox develop agentive selves by challenging gender norms, challenging expectations, and living out their religious subjectivities.

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  Peter Webb University Lecturer Arabic Literature and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Middle East doesn't exist News - 1 October 2015

  On Friday 2 October journalist Sander van Hoorn starts his lecture series ‘The Middle East doesn't exist’, which was organised by the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS). ‘If all goes well, people will understand the Middle East that bit less after my lectures.’

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  Afshin Ellian Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Crewe Williams PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Amirardalan Emami

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Xiong Xiong PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Contact Middle Eastern Studies (MA)

  If you have a question, there are various ways to get in touch with us.

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  Maarten Kossmann Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Land, Space, Power: Landscapes of the Early Caliphate Research project

  This NWO-funded VICI project (2025-2030) led by Prof.dr. Petra M. Sijpesteijn examines the place-making processes in the early Islamic Empire.

• What's New Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society

  What's New is a lecture series organised by LUCIS and the department of Middle Eastern Studies. The lectures focus on current research on Islam and the Middle East.

• Institute for Area Studies: Asia & the Middle East

  The Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) is devoted to the study of places in the human world from antiquity to the present time in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.

• Paolo Sartori will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in April 2018 News - 12 April 2018

  Paolo Sartori is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. In Leiden he will deliver one guest lecture on Twilight of the Persianate: The Vernacularization of Central Asia (18th - early 20th Centuries) on 12 April and a masterclass on How can we…

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  Caroline Fernandes Caromano Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• Passion in Profession Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society

  The Passion in Profession series features researchers who are specialised in Islamic, Middle Eastern and Central Asian studies. With the series, LUCIS aims to show what inspires them in their work by highlighting an object or concept that they feel passionate about.

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  Anahita Arian Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Jonathan Ouellet Education Officer

  Faculty of Archaeology