667 search results for “medieval islamic history” in the Student website
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Medieval manuscripts made available in Europeana
Over 600 manuscripts and early prints have been made digitally available by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) via the Europeana platform. In the project 'The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ (ARMA), seven European heritage institutions added 30,000 digitised medieval items to Europeana’s database…
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Mehdy Shaddel BasirFaculty of Humanities
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Abdourahamane Idrissa AbdoulayeAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Anna Dlabacova receives ERC Starting Grant for research on late medieval prayer books
Assistant Professor Anna Dlabacova has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. She will use this grant of around 1.5 million euros to conduct research on the Dutch vernacular ‘book of hours’.
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Egbert BosFaculty of Humanities
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Looking over the shoulders of medieval readers
What did medieval scholars think of the books they read? In her inaugural lecture, Professor Mariken Teeuwen will talk about the texts they wrote in the margin.
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Conference
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Geert WarnarFaculty of Humanities
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Antoinette HuijbersFaculteit Archeologie
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Dusan MaczekFaculteit Archeologie
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Frans TheuwsFaculteit Archeologie
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Roos van OostenFaculteit Archeologie
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The Commentary on the Remarks and Admonitions of Ibn Sina by the Shi’i Polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi Or.95 in the Leiden University Library
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Mariken Teeuwen: ‘There are so many new possibilities in research on medieval manuscripts’
Mariken Teeuwen started at the Institute for History as a professor by special appointment of Script Culture of the Middle Ages on 1 March. ‘I’m looking forward to doing research together with students.’
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Maurits BergerFaculty of Humanities
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Skeletal Evidence for Malaria in the Medieval Netherlands
Until very recently malaria was an impactful disease in the Netherlands. While currently mainly regarded as a tropical disease, references to symptoms which could be related to the disease are found in several historical documents from the 17th century onwards. To be able to better understand this disease…
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The history of the Perzian Book of Kings
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Angkor region was actually a large Medieval city
The Greater Angkor Region in contemporary Cambodia was dramatically more urbanized in the 13th century than previously thought, and home to 700.000 to 900.000 people. These discoveries were made by a research team led by Sarah Klassen. Their findings are published in Science Advances.
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Medieval Oegstgeest did business with all of Europe
Generations of Leiden students and academics have done archaeological research into the early medieval history of Oegstgeest. This makes this old settlement one of the best-documented sites from that era. In a new book Leiden researchers take stock.
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
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More education facilities
Other facilities
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Making Islam Work: Islamic Authority among Muslims in Western Europe
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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Julia SzirmaiFaculty of Humanities
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Jip BarreveldFaculteit Archeologie
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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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Fitri MurfiantiFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Hosna SheikhattarFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Visit the University of Helsinki for the Medieval-Modern Forum
Education
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
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Carolien BoenderFaculty of Humanities
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Juliette RodingFaculty of Humanities
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Dennie Oude NijhuisFaculty 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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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen TouwenFaculty of Humanities
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Jeannette KampFaculty of Humanities
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
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Leo LucassenFaculty of Humanities
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Rens TacomaFaculty of Humanities
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Ann Marie WilsonFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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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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A dead language comes to life: Early medieval Old English in the 21st century
From films, video games and historical novels to Nordic folk bands, Old English from the early Middle Ages is experiencing a revival in the 21st century. Together with international colleagues, university lecturer Thijs Porck (LUCAS) made a book about the 'resurrection' of this dead language.
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Weishuo LiFaculteit Archeologie
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Mette LangbroekFaculteit Archeologie
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Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Letty ten HarkelFaculteit Archeologie