2,051 search results for “persian and iranian studies” in the Public website
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Uzbekistan
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of the Faculty of Humanities with two partners in Uzbekistan.
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Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World
Located in the small Kingdom of Commagene at the upper Euphrates, the late Hellenistic monument of Nemrud Daǧ (c. 50 BC) has been undeservedly neglected by scholars
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Meet our new guest researcher: Lillian McCabe
Lillian McCabe is a PhD candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University and holds an MTS (Master of Theological Studies) from Harvard Divinity School. She studies the history of the occult sciences in Islamicate societies. Her dissertation focuses on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 606/1210)…
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Wilt Idema
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
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Paula van den Berg
Science
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Paul van Els
Faculty of Humanities
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Hisashi Owada
Faculty of Humanities
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Marc Buijnsters
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Tim Mickler
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Danielle Chevalier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Leonardo Carmignani
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jan Just Witkam
Faculty of Humanities
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Rachel Schats
Faculteit Archeologie
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Eric Jorink
Faculty of Humanities
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Chi Zhang
Faculteit Archeologie
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Astrid Vandendaele
Faculty of Humanities
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Jacobine Melis
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mila van Nieuwenhuizen
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
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Joeri Lammerts
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Nadia Bouras
Faculty of Humanities
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Sarah Wolff
Faculty of Humanities
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Jean-Pierre van der Rest
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jacqueline Hylkema
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
Faculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de Baar
Faculty of Humanities
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Lukas Milevski
Faculty of Humanities
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Ahab Bdaiwi
Faculty of Humanities
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Why Iran’s economy is not ‘collapsing’
President Trump believes that Iran’s economy is collapsing, and that this will leave Iranians no choice but to surrender to the demands of the United States. But these expectations might not come true, says Arash Pourebrahimi at the website of the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Pickpocket compounds from Latin to Romance
This thesis discusses the development in Proto–Indo–European, Latin and Romance of a word–formation pattern which the most adequate terminology in use dubs ‘verbal government compounds with a governing first member’; I use the shorthand ‘pickpocket compounds’.
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Indo-European Etymological Dictionary
Set up in 1991, this unique project aims to identify and describe the common lexical heritage of the most important Indo-European languages and language branches. The project has thus far resulted in twelve volumes published as The Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series (Brill, Leiden).
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The Diachronic Phonology of Indo-Iranian Loanwords in Balti and Ladakhi
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Watañi lāntaṃ: Khotanese and Tumshuqese Loanwords in Tocharian
Contacts between Tocharian A and B and Khotanese and Tumshuqese, four languages once spoken in today’s Xīnjiāng Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China, lack a comprehensive treatment and are still a controversial topic. This work contains the first systematic investigation of the matter from a…
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Paolo Sartori will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in April 2018
Paolo Sartori is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. In Leiden he will deliver one guest lecture on Twilight of the Persianate: The Vernacularization of Central Asia (18th - early 20th Centuries) on 12 April and a masterclass on How can we…
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Yasco Horsman
Faculty of Humanities
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Ton Anbeek van der Meyden
Faculty of Humanities
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Sasha Lubotsky
Faculty of Humanities
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Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
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Asghar Seyed Gohrab: ‘Teaching keeps me young and sharp’
Associate Professor Asghar Seyed Gohrab considers it his role to tell students about Iran, the country where he was born and raised. His research focuses on the connections between the present and the past on the basis of the ‘magical triangle’: Persian literature, politics and religion.
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Canonisation as Innovation
Anchoring Cultural Formation in the First Millennium BCE
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Central Asia Initiative
The Central Asia Initiative is funded by the Leiden research profile area Asian Modernities and Traditions with the purpose to establish Central Asian Studies at Leiden University.
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Leiden University scientists - Working at Leiden University
Nobody is better qualified to tell you what it is like to work at Leiden University than the employees themselves. Watch the videos and meet your future colleagues. They will be happy to share their experiences with you.
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News and events
News, events, announcements, social media and more about the building of the new Middle Eastern Library in Leiden
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Support for doctoral research on the history of Zoroastrianism
Last year, LUCSoR welcomed two new Ph.D. students from Iran: Kiyan Foroutan from Ahvaz and Amir Ardalan Emami from Tehran. Kiyan works on a project on the role of the family in medieval and early modern Zoroastrianism in India and Iran (15th-18th centuries). Ardalan works on a much earlier period, the…