283 search results for “shi islam” in the Staff website
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
p.a.webb@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1689
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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
h.p.a.theunissen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6480
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Anahita ArianFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.arian@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Joanita VroomFaculteit Archeologie
j.a.c.vroom@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6087
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia
Debate
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Book Launch: Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam
Lecture
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Imagining the Unimaginable: Finding the Islamic in Muslim Futures
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Jonathan OuelletFaculteit Archeologie
j.m.ouellet@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Afshin EllianFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.ellian@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7652
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Abdourahamane Idrissa AbdoulayeAfrika-Studiecentrum
a.idrissa.abdoulaye@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3372
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Loes OudenhuijsenAfrika-Studiecentrum
l.w.oudenhuijsen@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Renaming Ambiguity: Modernist Dream Encounters in Islamic Indonesia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Matrilineal Islam
PhD defence
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Jasmijn Rana on women's football and emancipation in Morocco
Explore the captivating world of women's football in Morocco through Trouw's insightful report, examining the intersection of Islam, popularity, money, and role models, as emphasized by cultural anthropologist Jasmijn Rana.
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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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May Shaddel Basir
Faculty of Humanities
m.shaddel.basir@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Da‘wa as Development: Kuwaiti Islamic Charity in Africa
Lecture
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Elena Burgos MartinezFaculty of Humanities
e.e.burgos.martinez@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5273
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How do European Muslims see their future?
Professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger wants to use citizen science to answer this question. On the futureofislam.eu website, he is inviting European Muslims to complete an anonymous survey about how they see their future and the role of Islam in this. He will present the first findings at the…
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Fatiha Azzarhouni: ‘Even during Covid, Ramadan is about fasting'
Mosques with limited opening hours, fewer family visits and fewer events: for the second time, Ramadan was different due to Covid. Islamologist and deputy director of the Leiden Islam Academie Fatiha Azzarhouni looks back on a special month.
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Petra Sijpesteijn: 'Membership of foreign academies is incredible recognition'
When Petra Sijpesteijn became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, she was the only Dutch member with an appointment at a Dutch university. Two years later, she is also the only Dutch member of the Austrian Academy and officially joined the British Academy on 7 October.
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China's Islam in Xinjiang
PhD defence
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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
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Annachiara Raia receives NWO Impact Explorer grant: ‘We want to ensure that literature is once again voiced by its own society and resonates
For decades, the trade in pocketbooks prescribing how to be a good Muslim flourished in East Africa, but in recent years the number of books in circulation has been declining. University lecturer Annachiara Raia is the recipient of an Impact Explorer grant to revive this tradition, in cooperation with…
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Radhika Gupta
Radhika Gupta has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council to study how transnational Islamic charitable networks are entangled with Western humanitarianism and neoliberal welfare frameworks.
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Bart Barendregt receives Vici grant for research on Artificial Intelligence in Muslim Southeast Asia
Bart Barendregt receives a Vici grant of 1.5 million euros from the NWO for his research project 'One between the Zeros, an Anthropology of Artificial Intelligence in Islam'.
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Obstinate Graves in East Java: Traditionalist and Modernist Ethics, Excess, and Sufi Perspectives | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Passenger safety at risk due to poor labour relations for airline pilots and crew
Due to gaps in working conditions regulations, airline pilots and crew are suffering from fatigue and inadequate protection in general. Leiden PhD student Yuran Shi investigated how international law can help improve working conditions and safety in the aviation sector.
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Mayke KaagAfrika-Studiecentrum
m.m.a.kaag@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3375
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
c.a.ennis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5635
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Corey WilliamsFaculty of Humanities
c.l.williams@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6903
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New archaeological perspectives on an Arabian oasis in Islamic periods
Lecture
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Two ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers
Research on quantum computers and Islamic charities: two Leiden researchers have received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
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Theological Speculation in Arabic: What Can We Know about Early Islamic Theology?
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Teaching a More Accurate and Inclusive History of Science: The Case of Islamic Contributions to Math and Sciences
Debate
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Lineage and Gender in Islam: Perspectives from the Indian Ocean World
International Conference
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Leiden University Press
Leiden University Press publishes academic books and journals, primarily in the field of humanities and social and behavioural sciences. The press focuses on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, History (Global, Military, Environmental) Archaeology, Asian Studies, Environmental Studies, Literary Studies,…
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Marijn van Putten: How many ways are there to read the Quran?
How should the Quran be read? The manuscript of this holy book makes different interpretations possible. Researcher Marijn van Putten has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of two million euros to explore centuries-old recitations.
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Interdisciplinary roundtable: Commitment, Islam and Social Justices in Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir’s Swahili Poetry
Debate
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Lecture: Zaydis, Salafis and Houthis and Their Engagement with the Islamic Tradition in Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Of Monsters and other Men: green Islam and the tidalectics of ecological crises in maritime Asia
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Protective Interventions by Local Elites in the Countryside of Early Islamic Egypt
PhD defence
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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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Tsolin NalbantianFaculty of Humanities
t.nalbantian@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2985
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Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Research schools
Many PhD candidates, as well as research master students at the Faculty of Humanities, are members of a research school related to their area of expertise. Research schools aim at the collaboration of researchers from different faculties in the same university (interfaculty schools) or in different…
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