323 search results for “history of islam” in the Staff website
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Céline Zaepffel
Faculty of Humanities
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Emma Grootveld
Faculty of Humanities
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Tsolin Nalbantian
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Ruurd Halbertsma
Faculty of Humanities
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Nina Jaspers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Johannes Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Havar Solheim
Faculty of Humanities
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Martijn Manders
Faculteit Archeologie
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Gina van Ling
Faculty of Humanities
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Ivo Smits
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Toon Kerkhoff
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Weixuan Li
Faculty of Humanities
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Ying Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Why Nixon Went, and Trump Stuck Around
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Hans-Jan van Kralingen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Elsemieke Daalder
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Adriaan van der Weel
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonor Veiga de Oliveira Matos Guilherme Ponsar
Faculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de Baar
Faculty of Humanities
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Egbert Koops
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Patricio Silva
Faculty of Humanities
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Bram Eenink
Faculty of Humanities
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Robert Zwijnenberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Mark Rutgers
Faculty of Humanities
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Quintijn Mauer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Vincent Chang
Faculty of Humanities
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Ruth Clemens
Faculty of Humanities
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Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
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Tobias van der Wal
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maarten Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Frits van der Meer
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Wouter van Beek
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
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Bareez Majid
Faculty of Humanities
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Matthew Frear
Faculty of Humanities
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’
As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with issues from the past. Not to be rooted in the past because some developments from history are things you definitely don’t want to repeat.’
- Forgotten heroes
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Ellen van Reuler
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Tycho van der Hoog
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Jan Abbink
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
On Thursday, May 16, Leiden University Libraries is organizing a workshop on early photography of the Middle East. In the workshop, curator Maartje van den Heuvel shows photos of three adventurous Dutch nineteenth-century travel and photography pioneers. They created beautiful photos and photo albums…
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Chibuike Uche
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
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University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’
After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…
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University introduces lay talk and it looks like this
Complex research with a generous sprinkling of jargon: PhD defences can be difficult for non-experts to follow. In the compulsory new lay talk, PhD candidates begin by explaining their dissertation in words of one syllable. And it’s not just the PhD’s family and friends who appreciate this.
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Iranian regime faces dilemma: ‘You can’t just block social media’
Protests have been raging in Iran for two months since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. The role of social media in the protests against the Iranian regime should not be underestimated, says Senior Assistant Professor and Iranian Babak RezaeeDaryakenari.