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Imams in Western Europe. Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges 01 May 2018
Bij Amsterdam University Press verschijnt 'Imams in Western Europe. Developments, Transformations and Institutional Challenges' onder redactie van Moh...
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LUCIS launches Passion in Profession video series 06 February 2018
What 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 2018-2019 13 December 2017
The 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 worlds 06 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...
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The unstoppable advance of Berber 06 November 2017
Berber 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 Prize 04 September 2017
Pre-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-history 02 August 2017
Peter 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 2018-2020 30 May 2017
We 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 World 11 April 2017
Apply 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 Islam 30 March 2017
How 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 repression 21 March 2017
How 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’ 02 March 2017
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 Rabat 23 February 2017
Minister 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 women 14 February 2017
Women 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 disciplines 19 December 2016
For 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...