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John Islam-van KlinkenICT Shared Service Centre
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Dynamics of persistence and change in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Isis on the Nile. Egyptian gods in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
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Portable Islam: Swahili literary networks in the Indian Ocean
The Swahili coast has a long-standing history of transoceanic Islamic connections dating back to the 25th century. Yet, print, has changed the world – not only ours. This project unravels unique forms and archives of intellectual history emerging from within South-South connections. In East Africa Indian…
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Beyond Departure: The Greeks in Egypt, 1962-1976
On 16 November 2022 ms. Eftychia Mylona successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt
New insights into the Fayum Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic.
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on ancestor worship, law, social status and gender norms in Ancient Egypt
On Wednesday 3 July 2024 Renata Schiavo successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Debates on Islam and Society (LUP)
With Leiden University Press, LUCIS publishes a peer-reviewed book series “Debates on Islam and Society” aimed at a broad audience. A number of books in this series are available in open access.
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Centre for Islamic Thought and History
Welcome to the Leiden University Centre for Islamic Thought and History. The initiatives and projects undertaken here are under the auspices of the Leiden University Centre for Intercultural Philosophy. As a centre, we aim to promote the study of Arabic and Islamic thought and history, in all its different…
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Islam, Humanity and the Indonesian Identity
Islam exists in global history with its richly variegated cultural and social realities. When these specific cultural contexts are marginalized, Islam is reduced to an ahistorical religion without the ability to contribute to humanity. This limited understanding of Islam has been a contributing factor…
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La crémation à Alexandrie et dans l’Égypte grecque et romaine: étude d'une pratique à travers ses urnes cinéraires
This research aims to study the practice of cremation in Alexandria and Graeco-Roman Egypt, through the examination of its cinerary urns.
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Leiden Studies in Islam and Society (Brill)
With Brill, LUCIS publishes a peer-reviewed book series, “Leiden Studies in Islam and Society” (LSIS), aimed at an international academic audience.
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Interpreting Islam from Inside and Outside
Muslim scholars work in a long and rich tradition of knowledge-production in their own culture.
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The Implications of ISIS (the “Islamic State”) for Islamic Movements and the Middle East
Political Islam is not new to the Middle East, but the appearance of ISIS has stretched the phenomenon to the extreme.
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Unending Variety: Papyrological Texts and Studies in Honour of Peter van Minnen
The subjects of the texts vary from Demosthenes to the delivery of camels in early Islamic Egypt, and their provenances stretch from the Eastern to the Western Desert, and from the Egyptian Nile valley to Qasr Ibrim in northern Nubia.
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Faithful Protection: The Use of Scripture in Egyptian Amulets (7th – 12th Century CE)
A selected group of unpublished amulets from various collections in the world will be studied and edited.
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Public Seminar: Global Migration and Refugee Law in Egypt and Morocco
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) and the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law (ACMRL) of the VU University Amsterdam organise a public seminar about global migration and refugee law in Egypt and Morocco, focusing on the International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers…
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restorations of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe in Egypt: "conservation" or "reinvention" of monuments?
Dina Ishak Bakhoum defended her thesis on 21 January 2021
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Islam, Colonialism and the Modern Age in the Netherlands East Indies
A Biography of Sayyid ʿUthman (1822–1914)
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Matrilineal Islam: State Islamic Law and everyday practices of marriage and divorce among people of Mukomuko-Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia
On 13 December 2023 Alf Farabi successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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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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Representations of Everyday Islam in Europe: Scholars and the ‘Real World’
What forms does Muslim religiosity take in daily life? What is the relation between representations of Islam and Muslims by scholars and the views that exist in the ‘real world’?
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LUCIS - Centre for the Study of Islam and Society
LUCIS promotes high-quality research on Islam and Muslim societies and actively communicates the insights and findings of that research to the larger public.
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Staring at the heavens: Astronomy in medieval Islam
University Lecturer Ahab Bdaiwi:
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Islam in Central Asia: Shrines along the Silk Road
This programme examines cultural space, national identity and the politics of tangible and intangible heritage in Islamic Central Asia.
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Islam in North Africa: A Critical Return to Youth
In recent years, and especially since the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011, a growing body of research, media reporting, and scholarly literature has focused on the role of ‘Arab youth’ as the drivers of social and political movements across the Middle East and North Africa.
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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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Early Modern Medievalisms
Early Modern Medievalisms: The Interplay between Scholarly Reflection and Artistic Production
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Temple oaths in Ptolemaic Egypt : a study at the crossroads of law, ethics and religion
Viviana Massa defended her thesis on 16 December 2018.
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Hieroglyphs, Pseudo-Scripts and Alphabets: Their Use and Reception in Ancient Egypt and Neighbouring Regions
The Egyptian hieroglyphic script was exceptionally versatile, as becomes clear when studying its multiple uses both within Ancient Egypt and beyond its borders.
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Drone imagery in Islamic State propaganda: flying like a state
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the Islamic State's use of images taken by drones, drawing on a dataset of ISIS propaganda images from October 2016 to December 2018.
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Episcopal Networks and Authority in Late Antique Egypt: Bishops of the Theban region at work
Renate Dekker defended her thesis on 7 November 2017.
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
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Egyptian temple oaths in Ptolemaic Egypt. A comparative approach at the crossroads of law, ethnics and religion
Een onderzoek naar de formulering, structuur, rechtshistorische aard en sociale en religieuze achtergronden van Laat-Egyptische (demotische) tempeleden, aangevuld met 70 ongepubliceerde teksten.
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Islamic courts and women's divorce rights in Indonesia: the cases of Cianjur and Bulukumba
This book presents the results of a research about the Islamic courts of Cianjur in West Java, and Bulukumba in South Sulawesi and the role they play in local divorce practices.
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Alireza AsghariFaculty of Humanities
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Forces, States and Hydropolitics of the River Nile: Case Studies of Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan
This research aims to investigate how different social forces interact with hydropolitics in the Eastern Nile Basin and what are the constraints of engagement.
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Perspectives on Lived Religion Practices Transmission Landscape
Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised, and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if superficial narratives, however. Individuals…
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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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Mariëtte KeukenUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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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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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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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
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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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Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies
This series of publications brings together new material on wellconsidered themes within the wide area of Early Modern Studies.
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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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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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Memory in Early Modern Europe 1500 - 1800
For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone.