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1,595 search results for “history of islam” in the Public website

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  Herman Paul Professor History of the Humanities

  Faculty of Humanities

• Understanding Dutch converts to Islam: On turbulent trajectories and (non-) involvement in jihadist movements Research output

  This study focuses on increasing our understanding of the different pathways converts take during conversion to Islam.

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  Anais van Ertvelde PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mahmood Kooriadathodi Researcher / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

• Migration History in World History. Multidisciplinary Approaches | Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 3 Research output

  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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  Louis Sicking University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Rewriting Yusuf. A Philological and Intertextual Study of a Swahili Islamic Manuscript Poem Research output

  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…

• Oil, Labour and Revolution in Iran: A Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1973-1983 Research output

  Peyman Jafari defended his thesis on 11 October 2018

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  Robert Ross Professor emeritus of African Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

• Crete as melting pot: research into Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Islamic material culture at Gortyn, Greece Research project

  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?

• Paolo Sartori will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in April 2018 News - 12 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…

• Islamophobia and Securitisation: The Dutch Case Research output

  This book examines how Muslim communities in the Netherlands perceive and experience extremism, counter-radicalisation policies, and Islamophobia.

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  Nicolette Mout Professor emeritus of European History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ann Marie Wilson Assistant Professor

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Jos Gommans Professor of Colonial and Global History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  John Kegel Research staff member

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• Philippine Confluence: Iberian, Chinese and Islamic Currents, C. 1500-1800 Research output

  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.

• 'Authentic Islam': The Religious Profile of Taqī al-Dīn al-Hilālī (1893-1987) as Reflected in his Fatwas Research output

  Abdessamad El Amraoui defended his thesis on 6 Mai 2015.

• About Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society

  LUCIS is an interfaculty knowledge centre offering a multidisciplinary and comparative view on Islam and Muslim societies.

• NISIS publication: Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century News - 29 August 2016

  This month, the NISIS publication “Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century: Transformations and Continuities” was published by Amsterdam University Press. This volume brings together contributions of various speakers at past NISIS Autumn Schools, providing an overview of important issues in the…

• Between the Holy Land and the World. A connected history of Christian communities in the Near East via the unpublished photographic collections Research project

  The project ‘Between the Holy Land and the World’ proposes a connected history of the Christian communities in the Near East (1900-1948) by means of a study of unpublished Franciscan and Dominican photographic collections.

• State, Society, and Labour in Iran, 1906-1941: A Social History of Iranian Industrialization and Labour with Reference to the Textile Industry Research output

  Serhan Afacan defended his thesis on 23 June 2015

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  Ethan Mark Senior University Lecturer Modern Japanese History

  Faculty of Humanities

• Online course for diplomats bridges perceptions between Islamic and Western worlds News - 6 November 2017

  Professor Maurits Berger is presenting an online course, starting on 6 November, on the images that Islam and the West hold of one another. The course will be useful for diplomats from Teheran to Islamabad.

• Individualization, Fragmentation of Authority, and New Organizational Forms among Muslims in Europe Research project

  What forms does religiosity take among Muslims in Europe today? How are answers to the question of what it means to be a Muslim in Europe reached in institutions of Islamic higher education, Muslim student organizations, and women’s organizations? What is the relation between the individual and religious…

• "If I deserve it, it should be paid to me": A social history of labour in the Iranian oil industry 1951-1973 Research output

  Maral Jefroudi defended her thesis on 11 October 2017

• Course helps primary-school teachers with Islam-related dilemmas News - 22 July 2019

  Primary-school teachers who aren’t Muslim themselves but do have Muslim children in their class sometimes face dilemmas and cultural or religious differences. The ‘Islam in the Classroom’ course at the Leiden Islam Academy can help them resolve these. A new round begins on 9 September.

• Profile 3. Sources on Frisian medieval history Research output

  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…

• About this minor Islam: Religion and Society

  Everything you need to know about the minor Islam: Religion and Society.

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  Shenghao Yue PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Chie Arita PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Qinggang Hao PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ako Tsujita PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Thato Magano External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Zhengshan Jiao PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Manfred Horstmanshoff Professor Emeritus History of medicine

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Suzan ten Heuw PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mariana De Campos Francozo Associate Professor

  Faculteit Archeologie

• Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History Research output

  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.

• Applying Sharia in the West Research output

  Facts, Fears and the Future of Islamic Rules on Family Relation in the West

• History: Ancient History Ancient History (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying Ancient History? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

• There is no doubt. Muslim scholarship and society in 17th-century Central Sudanic Africa Research output

  Combining approaches from intellectual history, philology and the study of Arabic manuscripts, this study places the Bornu scholar Muḥammad al-Wālī within his intellectual environment on the one hand, and it portrays him as someone who responded to the concerns of ordinary Muslims around him on the…

• Academics and lecturers develop teaching material on Islam News - 21 November 2017

  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.

• Leiden Islam Academy: sharing knowledge and making contact News - 7 December 2016

  The aim of Leiden Islam Academy is to share the broad knowledge of Islam existing in Leiden University with various parties within society, and to bring people together. After three years of preparation, the launch meeting will take place on 7 December.

• History Profile

  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.

• The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire Research output

  The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires.

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  Daphne Wong-A-Foe PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

• Rebel Legal Order, Governance and Legitimacy: Examining the Islamic State and the Taliban Insurgency Research output

  This article explores how ISIS and the Taliban have fostered support through their parallel legal systems.

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  Arnold Mol PhD candidate / lecturer Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Petra Sijpesteijn Professor of Arabic

  Faculty of Humanities