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Vacature: student-assistent bij LUCISLUCIS is op zoek naar drie student-assistenten voor 19 uur per week vanaf 1 juni 2018 tot 1 september 2019.
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LUCIS launches Passion in Profession video seriesWhat inspires scholars who study the history, cultures, religions and languages of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia? LUCIS interviewed s...
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Leiden University to welcome Al-Babtain visiting professors in Arabic culture in 2018-2019The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) and the Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation will join hands in promo...
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Online course for diplomats bridges perceptions between Islamic and Western worldsProfessor 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...
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The unstoppable advance of BerberBerber languages have long been banned from public life in North Africa, but the situation has changed drastically. Linguistic research is generating ...
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Ahmad Al-Jallad wins Gratama Science PrizePre-Islamic Arabia was barren, barbaric, and isolated. At least, that's what many Arabic writers and historics argued. Ahmad Al-Jallad debunks this my...
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Peter Webb’s EPIC PASTS explores how Muslims viewed their pre-historyPeter Webb is one of the four young Leiden Humanities researchers to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (N...
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LUCIS funding continued from 2018-2020We are delighted to announce that the funding of the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) will be continued from 2018 u...
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Call for Applications | LUCIS Summer School | Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim WorldApply now for the LUCIS Summer School on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim world, which will take place from Tuesday 15 August until Friday 25...
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Papyri: the written residue of daily life during the formative period of IslamHow did people experience Islam on a day-to-day basis in the early centuries of Islam? That's where the papyri come in, says professor of Arabic Petra...
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The art of control without repressionHow did the Arabs manage to maintain an empire based on Islamic principles for three hundred years? Arab expert Petra Sijpesteijn and her team will b...
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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 Ministe...
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Minister Bussemaker to open Morocco Institute NIMAR in RabatMinister Jet Bussemaker (Ministry of Education, Culture and Science) will open the new headquarters of NIMAR (Netherlands Institute in Morocco) in Rab...
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Martyrs are sometimes womenWomen behind the front play an important role in a large proportion of Iranian novels, written on the Iran and Iraq-war (1980-1988). But their martyrd...
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Lorentz Center brings together researchers from all disciplinesFor nearly twenty years the Lorentz Center has been a unique venue where researchers from all over the world work in intense collaboration. In an insp...