2,544 search results for “media islam history” in the Public website
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Understanding Dutch converts to Islam: On turbulent trajectories and (non-) involvement in jihadist movements
This study focuses on increasing our understanding of the different pathways converts take during conversion to Islam.
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Journalism and New Media (MA)
The Dutch-taught master’s programme in Journalism and New Media at Leiden University provides you with strong editorial and academic skills as well as a journalistic mindset. It is an ideal programme to kickstart your career in journalism.
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European and International Media Law
This book is the first to incorporate current academic literature and case law on European, transnational, and international media law into a comprehensive overview intended primarily for students.
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In the media
The research at the Living lab attracts a great deal of press attention. Please find below a small selection of the many news reports that have been published. Also take a look at the Zembla programme about the Living Lab.
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Arts, Media and Society (BA)
Visual art today is strongly interlinked with today’s society, a connection which is reinforced and deepened by social and other media. In Arts, Media and Society you will explore this relationship and analyse how it reflects and impacts the issues of our time, while also learning practical and academic…
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Islam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll
Islam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization.
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Mahmood Kooriadathodi
Faculty of Humanities
m.kooriadathodi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Migration History in World History. Multidisciplinary Approaches | Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 3
Migration is the talk of the town. On the whole, however, the current situation is seen as resulting from unique political upheavals. Such a-historical interpretations ignore the fact that migration is a fundamental phenomenon in human societies from the beginning and plays a crucial role in the cultural,…
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Rewriting Yusuf. A Philological and Intertextual Study of a Swahili Islamic Manuscript Poem
The present monograph, spanning a wide range of world and local literatures represents a high academic standard of both literary criticism and philological analysis. By demonstrating her expertise as an Africanist conversant with the Arabic canon, Raia reveals how the narrative of Joseph has been re-narrated…
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Fitri Murfianti
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
f.murfianti@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3451
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One Among Zeroes |0100| Towards an Anthropology of Everyday AI in Islam
The |0100| Project studies the discourses, practices and imaginaries of Islamic information society’s most debated component- Artificial Intelligence- using multimodal and mixed methods and comparing and contrasting narratives and imagery of AI-religious-futures in Muslim Southeast Asia.
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A war of words: What ancient Manchurian history does to Korea and China today
Why does the past elicit this intense activity in the present? What does the past mean for the present, and what does it do to it? A WAR OF WORDS will engage this complex of Chinese claims to Manchu-Korean ancient history, South Korean reactions, public discourse and cultural expression in both states,…
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Re-Presented Pasts: Uses and Re-Uses of the Past in Pre-Modern Islam
A platform to research memory and culture in the Muslim world. This programme explores the ways modern memory studies methodologies can be applied to pre-modern Muslim societies to reveal the uses of the past and senses of tradition in diverse contexts of Muslim thought.
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Crete as melting pot: research into Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Islamic material culture at Gortyn, Greece
What does the excavated material tell us about the continuation and/or change of urban life during the transitional phrases from Antiquity to the Middle Ages on Crete and in the eastern Mediterranean more generally?
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Women issuing fatwas: female Islamic sholars and community-based authority in Java, Indonesia
On 12 January 2023 ms. Nor Ismah successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Languages of Islam and Christianity: Institutional Discourses, Community Strategies and Missionary Rhetoric
On February 20th, Gulnaz Sibgatullina succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Gulnaz on this great result.
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Micro-Blogging and Media Policy in China
Yuxi Nie defended her thesis on 15 October 2019.
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Robert Chesal
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
r.e.chesal@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9503
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In the media and research
Below you will find an overview of how researchers from the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs and their research appear in the media, and you can read more about topics that concern the Faculty.
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Philippine Confluence: Iberian, Chinese and Islamic Currents, C. 1500-1800
Situated at the crossroads of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Spanish Philippines offer historians an intriguing middle ground of connected histories that raises fundamental new questions about conventional ethnic, regional and religious identities.
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'Authentic Islam': The Religious Profile of Taqī al-Dīn al-Hilālī (1893-1987) as Reflected in his Fatwas
Abdessamad El Amraoui defended his thesis on 6 Mai 2015.
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Discourse Analysis of Micro-Blogging and Media Policy in China
How new media shape the communication strategies of the PRC’s official news agency Xinhua?
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Leiden Islam Academy launches online course ‘Islam in de klas’ for teachers
‘Islam in de klas’ is a new course targeting primary school teachers to go online on 18 March by the Leiden Islam Academy (LIA). The online course aims to help teachers get better equipped when dealing with Islam-related dilemmas in primary classrooms.
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Explorations in History and Globalization
Considering the ways in which the ‘global turn’ is changing the theory and practice of historical disciplines, Explorations in History and Globalization engages with the concept and methodology of globalization, challenging traditional divisions of space and time to offer a range of perspectives on…
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Lenny van Rosmalen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
lrosmalen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3957
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Digital Media in Human Development (MSc)
Digital media are everywhere and are therefore a major part of our lives and the lives of our children. The new specialisation in Digital Media in Human Development focuses on the opportunities and challenges of digital media in child rearing and education.
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Celebrate Roughly 20 Years of Media Technology
Since September 2001 Leiden University's Media Technology MSc program has educated modern academics, creative nerds, playful programmers, tinkering thinkers, and conceptual cross-disciplinarians. On May 13th, we celebrate!
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Book and Digital Media Studies (MA)
The master’s programme in Book and Digital Media Studies introduces you to the history of the written and printed word, and to theories and practices of publishing as well as digital textual media.
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Online Experience Arts, Media and Society
Study information, Online Experience
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Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia
How do videos, movies and documentaries dedicated to indigenous communities transform the media landscape of South Asia? Based on extensive original research, this book examines how in South Asia popular music videos, activist political clips, movies and documentaries about, by and for indigenous communities…
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Arts, Literature and Media (research) (MA)
This interdisciplinary research master offers the best of three worlds (arts, literature and media) through a program of well-designed courses, with ample space for specialization. It combines theoretically grounded methods and approaches with period-specific training that focuses either on the medieval…
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Profile 3. Sources on Frisian medieval history
Due to the fact that the Frisian lands lacked major political centers in the Middle Ages and also because most of its monasteries suffered complete destruction in the second half of the 16th century, relatively few written documents concerning medieval Frisian history have survived. To analyze them…
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Travelling patterns on Discrete Media
This thesis describes how complex and real-world relevant analytical solutions can be found starting from a simple Nagumo problem posed on one or two-dimensional lattices.
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LEiden university NexuS of Arts | Media | Politics
The purpose of LENS is to foster, coordinate and support research of visual media of analog and digital photography, film, and video, and the visual arts.
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EU H2020 RISE Social Media Analytics
LIACS is a partner in RISE_SMA, an interdisciplinary, international network combining excellent scholars and practitioners to enable vigorous knowledge sharing and to develop solutions for contemporary challenges for Social Media Analytics (SMA).
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Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History
This seminal volume covers the entire global history of urbanization since the rise of cities in Mesopotamia in the 6th millennium BC. Leiden historians Wim Blockmans, Leonard Blussé, Luuk de Ligt and Leo Lucassen contributed survey and thematic chapters.
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The effect of trial by media
The trial of Dutch rapper Ali B is receiving massive media attention. Party due to himself, the trial can be followed by the public. How will this affect the upcoming verdict? Dutch newspaper ‘De Volkskrant’ spoke to legal scholars and experts including Jan de Keijser.
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Disinformation and Strategic Communication in Global Media
From fake news to COVID-19 conspiracies, debates about truth claims have become more prominent during the past decade. Taking a global, comparative perspective, the minor Disinformation and Strategic Communication in Global Media focuses on the broad spectrum of contested narratives subsumed under the…
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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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History: Ancient History
Are you thinking about studying Ancient History? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media
Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media is dedicated to art practices that mobilize the model of the archive, demonstrating the ways in which such archival artworks probe the possibilities of what art is and what it can do.
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Academics and lecturers develop teaching material on Islam
A number of different course curricula were presented at a training conference on ‘Islam in the Class’ op 17 November. The course materials were developed by Leiden academics in collaboration with teachers involved in pre-university education.
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Imagining the Arabs
Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
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An Economic History of Portugal, 1143–2010
This book rovides an economic history of Portugal over the course of eight centuries, from 1143 through to 2010 and situates Portugal's economic growth within the context of European development. It also responds to fundamental questions about when, how and why the economy expanded, stagnated or co…
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History
Leiden University was the first university to be established in the Netherlands. William of Orange gave Leiden Academia Lugduno Batava in 1575, it is said in recognition of the city’s courageous resistance against the seige by the Spanish invaders.
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Politics of Withdrawal Media, Arts, Theory
'Politics of Withdrawal' considers the significance of practices and theories of withdrawal for radical thinking today.
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Lingyun Lai
Faculty of Humanities
l.lai@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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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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In the Media
Our research regularly receives attention in the (Dutch) popular media. Here is an overview.
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Rebel Legal Order, Governance and Legitimacy: Examining the Islamic State and the Taliban Insurgency
This article explores how ISIS and the Taliban have fostered support through their parallel legal systems.