266 search results for “early islam” in the Student website
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…
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John Islam-van KlinkenICT Shared Service Centre
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
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Online Conference: Wisdom Literature in Early Islam
Conference
- Daring questions in Islam
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Religious Discourse and Tribal Affiliation in Early Islamic Ifrīqiya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Back to the roots of Shia Islam: ‘We need to get the full picture.'
When discussing the history of Islam, the focus is almost always on the history of the Sunni majority. University Lecturer in the history of Islam, Edmund Hayes wants this to change. His new ERC-funded project , focuses on the development of the early Shia community.
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Conference
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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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Alireza AsghariFaculty of Humanities
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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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‘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.
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
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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…
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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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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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Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World
Lecture, Studium Generale
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
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Arnold MolFaculty of Humanities
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Jelle BruningFaculty of Humanities
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Maurits BergerFaculty of Humanities
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Mahmood KooriadathodiFaculty of Humanities
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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Lecture ‘Knickerbocker Renaissance: Dutch Schools and Slavery in the Early United States’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Special Guest Lecture
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
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Series: From Pixel to Caesar: Using Atlas.ti to discover the past in early digital games
Lecture
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
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Making Islam Work: Islamic Authority among Muslims in Western Europe
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Maurits Berger on Ruetir about national holidays
Why are the majority of our national holidays based around Christian festivities? Arabist Maurits Berger talks about this in an article on Ruetir.
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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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ENIS Spring School 2024 - Peripheral Islam: Muslims on the Geographical, Normative, Political and Religious Margins
Education
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Oddly-shaped medieval vessels found all over the Islamic world have puzzled archaeologists for decades.
'When taking into account all finds in the Islamic world of this enigmatic vessel, it would perhaps be wise not to restrict this container to merely one function.'
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How should we use AI? The Islamic world may have an answer
The secular West is struggling with the rise of AI, but so too is Muslim Southeast Asia. What can we learn from each other?
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mat ImmerzeelFaculty of Humanities
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Jacques van der VlietFaculty of Humanities
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Joanita VroomFaculteit Archeologie
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
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Loes OudenhuijsenAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Léon BuskensFaculty of Humanities
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Ian SimpsonFaculteit Archeologie