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Summer School
At our Summer School on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World we offer graduate students and researchers lectures by experts, practical classes, and hands-on experience with manuscripts from Leiden University’s famous collection of oriental manuscripts.
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Extra-curricular
Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.
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Initiatives
LUCITH runs a number of initiatives and programmes. Below you will find a list of initiatives and activities by the Centre for Islamic Thought and History.
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Invited journalists
To complement scholarly knowledge with journalistic insights, LUCIS regularly invites journalists to share their perspective on current events.
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Partners
Links to related organisations, institutes, journals and archives.
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Rethinking Javanese Religion: The Prospect of New Descriptions of Javanese Traditions
This study describes religion in Java.
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Affiliated members
LUCIS affiliated members are researchers outside Leiden University who are actively involved in the study of Islam and/or Muslim societies and who regularly participate in LUCIS activities. LUCIS affiliate membership offers possibilities to cooperate with LUCIS as well as network opportunities. Contact…
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Shiʿi studies
While many European universities, Leiden included, have a proud tradition of research into Islamic studies, a topical and thematic focus on Shiʿi Islam in all its dispensation remains a desideratum.
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Greater focus on pre-Islamic heritage
War and terrorism overshadow interest in the pre-Islamic heritage of the Arabic peninsula. The new Leiden Centre for the Study of Ancient Arabia aims to make the general public more aware of the ancient history of this region.
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Interreligious Encounter in a West African City: A Study of Multiple Religious Belonging and Identity Among the Yorùbá of Ogbómòsó, Nigeria
How has interreligious encounter in Ogbómòsó created multiple religious belongings and identities among individuals and groups?
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In This Fragile World Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
This 25th volume in the series 'Islam in Africa', edited by Annachiara Raia, is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet, intellectual and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau (born 1952) from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state.
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Associations and Journals
An overview of Professional Associations and Journals
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The Arab Thieves: al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar
Vol. V, Sections 1-2
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Historical Muslim Societies
How did institutions and structures operate throughout the Muslim world from the earliest history of Islam into the early modern period?
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Mahmood Kooriadathodi
Faculty of Humanities
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Islamitisch basisonderwijs in Nederland
Marietje Beemsterboer defended her thesis on 12 June 2018 (in Dutch)
- Juynboll Lecture: Towards connected histories of Muslim Qur’an translation
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Imagining the Arabs
Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
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LUCSoR : Centre for the Study of Religion
Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR) studies religion as human activity, in all its diversity.
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Visiting fellows
Every semester, LUCIS invites a scholar to Leiden to provide a lecture series on a topic of their choice. With these lectures, we aim to present state-of-the-art research in Islamic studies to the Leiden academic community and beyond, and to offer students and junior researchers the opportunity to get…
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Book presentations
Now and then we organise book launches to present the latest publications, both academic and popular, in our broad field.
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Law and Governance in Muslim Societies
With regard to governance, policies and law, many Muslims and Muslim countries recognise the possibility that Islam has something important to say about the way society is to be ordered, governed, and regulated.
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ImBod | Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE
Imami Shiʿism was a key part of the turbulent thesis and antithesis which formed Islam, and it remains greatly influential today. The aim of the ImBod project is to write the first comprehensive social history of the Imamate.
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‘Morocco Institute crucial for better understanding of Arab world’
A better understanding of Morocco and the Arab world is crucial for international relations and for Dutch society. This was the key message of Minister of Education, Culture and Science Jet Bussemaker and Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam, at the opening of the renewed Netherlands Institute in Morocco…
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Sara Bolghiran
Faculty of Humanities
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Contact
If you have a question, there are various ways to get in touch with us.
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Understanding PKK, Kurdish Hezbollah and ISIS Recruitment in Southeastern Turkey
This study delivers a comprehensive picture of the causes of radicalization in the Eastern and Southeastern regions of Turkey. It demonstrates how regionally specific factors enable ideologically disparate terrorist groups to recruit and radicalize from the same population.
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We are Humanities
Humanities are needed to make sense of social issues. Watch or listen to the stories of our experts who tell about their research and the impact on society. Get to know the world at Humanities!
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Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890: Intercultural Engagements with Architecture and Craft in the Age of Travel
This beautifully illustrated volume investigates the social life of objects moving between the Middle East and the West, revealing the range of agencies and subjectivities involved in their trade and reuse.
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Matters of Humanities
‘Islam and Muslims are not something that happened to Europe; they are part of Europe. In fact, Islam is one the biggest constants in European history,’ argues Professor Maurits Berger in the new eight-part Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe podcast series of the Leiden University Faculty…
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MENA Cultures and Global Aesthetics
Aesthetic formations and cultural repertoires give meaning to our reality in ways that are never neutral. Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and its global interlocutors, this project brings together a team of scholars from Leiden University who bring in inter-disciplinary, inter-area…
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Middle Eastern Studies (research) (MA)
Designed for high-achieving students, Leiden University's master's in Middle Eastern Studies (Research) offers you unmatched resources and expertise.
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Sharia in the West
This research projects wants to know what Muslims in the West do and mean by ‘Sharia’, and how the Western legal system responds to that. The focus is on Sharia as an informal practice by Muslims in the West, i.e. other than through state law or state courts.
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Webinar numerus fixus Politicologie/Internationale Politiek
Study information
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Being Muslim in Indonesia: Religiosity, Politics and Cultural Diversity in Bima
Muhammad Adlin Sila examines the range of ways Bima Muslims constitute their Islamic identities and agencies through rituals and festivals. In response to their surroundings, what it means to be a Muslim is constantly being negotiated.
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HZ Kenniscentrum Zeeuwse Samenleving
HZ Kenniscentrum Zeeuwse Samenleving doet op vraag van regionale overheden en maatschappelijke organisaties onderzoek naar actuele en maatschappelijke thema’s in de provincie Zeeland. De uitkomsten van onderzoeken en analyses worden gebruikt voor kennisopbouw en als basis voor beleidsopbouw en -ontwikkeling.…
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Webinar numerus fixus Politicologie/Internationale Politiek
Study information
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‘Do Not Say They Are Dead’: The Political Use of Mystical and Religious Concepts in the Persian Poetry of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88)
The chief aim of this study is to explore how classical Persian poetry and the Persian mysticism that is interwoven with the poetry have been used in the new politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially during the Iran-Iraq war.
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Petra Sijpesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Arabic papyri shed new light on origins of Islam
Research on papyri has provided new insights into the history of the origins of Islam. Petra Sijpesteijns’s book,'Shaping a Muslim State', is based on these ancient Arabic letters and documents. Her new research on a Viennese collection of untranslated papyri is expected to produce more discoveries.
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Staff and contact
LUCIS is directed by Nathal Dessing, who is advised by a steering committee.
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Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 23
Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 23, 2007
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The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World
Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? And that the Middle East under Muslim rule was the world’s beating heart of trade, but also of science and scholarship?
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Fitri Murfianti
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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2024
Elk jaar organiseert het LIBC in samenwerking met de gemeente Leiden een Publieksdag over hersenonderzoek.
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Panel discussions
At our regular panel discussions we bring together scholars and other experts to discuss a current topic that captures the interest of the general public as well as academics.
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Weblogs and podcasts
Academic staff and students blog about their research and teaching.
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Western Arabia in the Leiden Collections
Traces of a Colourful Past
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Project Office IRP
Programme management of research programme “Strengthening knowledge of and dialogue with the Islamic/Arab world”