209 search results for “arabic historiography” in the Staff website
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Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco
A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat at the end of February.
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Multilingualism in young children is a good thing: 'Languages support each other'
During Leiden City of Science 2022, Janet Grijzenhout and Hannah De Mulder will put multilingualism in the spotlight by organising multilingual storytelling afternoons. They hope to show parents that raising children multilingually is achievable as well as beneficial.
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What did resistance look like in Indonesia during the Second World War?
Stories of resistance in the Second World War are widely covered in Dutch historiography: Hannie Schaft, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, and Professor Cleveringa are some of the best known. But these accounts largely focus on the Dutch domestic perspective. On the other side of the world, a complex colonial…
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Introducing: Rafal Matuszewski
Rafal Matuszewski is an assistant professor at the Institute for History since 1 August 2023. Below he introduces himself.
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Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn
Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of Bonn. In this position, Jansen, a world-renowned specialist on ancient Mexican pictorial manuscripts, will further expand upon the long-standing collaboration…
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Fleeing tapestry makers picked up the thread again in Gouda
In the sixteenth century, many Protestants fled to the Northern Netherlands to avoid Spanish oppression in the south. This exodus included tapestry makers from Oudenaarde who eventually settled in Gouda. Professor by Special Appointment Yvonne Bleyerveld and researcher Jos Beerens have been awarded…
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ERC Starting Grants for seven Leiden researchers
Seven researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. This will enable them to start their own project, build their research team and put their best ideas into action.
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Summer school 'Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries'
Conference, Summer School
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De Verbranders, a podcast on Europe's borders and resistance against them, is online
De Verbranders, a podcast produced by PhD candidates Neske Baerwaldt (FdR/VVI) and Wiebe Ruijtenberg (FSW/CAOS), is online! You can now listen to the first episode on Soundcloud, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. Episodes of the podcast will be introduced in various courses this year.
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Safety, responsibility and connection: especially now
We, the Executive Board and deans, have recently heard from different sources that the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues to evoke strong feelings of tension, anxiety and insecurity within our university community. We take this very seriously and so are once again addressing you all.
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Krista Murchison receives Veni grant for ‘Righting and Rewriting History’
Krista Murchison, University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, received a Veni grant of 250.000 euros. Her Veni-project will explore the ‘immaterial archive’ and its social and historical significance by digitally recreating manuscripts that were destroyed during World…
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Leiden researchers organise first Week of Ancient Writing
This month marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. NINO, the Language Museum, Things that Talk and the National Museum of Antiquities are seizing the opportunity to organise the first Week of Ancient Writing.
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‘The ancient Egyptians were concerned with more than just death’
When we think about ancient Egypt, the first things that come to mind are usually mummies and sarcophagi. According to researcher and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden curator Lara Weiss, that impression is unjustified. She made an audio tour for the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden that focuses on living Egyptians…
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Lecture by Al-Babtain Visiting Fellow Salwa El-Awa
Dr. Salwa El-Awa delivers a talk on Wednesday, November 2nd, on "Ambiguity in the Qur'an".
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Libya’s reconciliation and access to justice focus of high-level meeting in Leiden
Scholars from Libya and Leiden have been cooperating on research since 2012. On 25-26 October 2022, a select group of high-level participants will gather in Leiden to discuss the research on national reconciliation and access to justice, and to explore implications for policy and law.
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CJ Public Lecture: What is happening around Europe’s internal borders?
IAt the Criminal Justice Public Lecture on 20 April, Professor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude spoke about her research into decisions and practice in relation to intra-Schengen border areas and the free movement of persons. The thinking behind the Schengen area is that where the external borders…
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Israel's Gaza war. What caused it? What are the consequences?
Lecture
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
- Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Research Seminar
Conference, Research Seminar
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Herstory and the female gaze: event on International Women's Day
Debate
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“All the aids which a beginner needs”: James Summers’ (1828-1891) research on Chinese grammar
PhD defence
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VVIK Lecture: Court politics in the Vijayanagara successor states
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Challenging Myths and Exceptions
Lecture, Film Screening
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Online Conference: Wisdom Literature in Early Islam
Conference
- Faculty Roundtable: Societies, Emotions, and Receptions in (Modern) Literatures
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With kind regards: May 2022
Lecture
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Papyrus, roses and a sea cat: the Leiden Dioskurides
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Back to Rabat
The airspace had almost closed last year as Leiden students and staff rushed to leave the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR). How is this Leiden institute in Rabat doing over a year later? ‘Luckily we’d done a crisis exercise a few months before. Everyone managed leave the country in time.’
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A Matter of Speech: Language of Social Interdependency in the Early Islamicate Empire (600-1500)
Conference
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
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The Decade of Revolt? Class Conflict and the State of Permanent Crisis in the Post-2011 Middle East
Conference, Roundtable
- A Tale in Two Tongues
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Book Launch: Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam
Lecture
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Call 6th meeting reading group "The Role of Experience"
Course
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Booju on the Red Hill: the Kangxi emperor's Manchu emissaries to Tibet and their role in shaping the relationship with the Tibetan government
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Manufactured drought? An environmental history of water scarcity in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1952
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Dismantling National Colonialism: the role of Chilean political indigenous movements
Guest Lecture
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The Samarkand Cotton Mill that Very Nearly Was
Lecture
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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Reimaging Peace Democratization in Yemen: Women, Transnationalism and Activism in Exile
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Becoming a terrorist provides income, safety and identity
How do people become involved in terrorist organisations? Liesbeth van der Heide sought the answer to this question in a Malian prison, where she interviewed terrorists in a tiny cell. She discovered that the will to survive and social context are often more decisive than individual ideological convictions.…
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Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy
Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger and twelve students from different conflict zones are starting a creative thinking process that aims to discover the basic conditions for peace in the…