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Veni for Verena Meyer: 'Not every religious manuscript is meant to be digitised'26 August 2025Now that it is becoming increasingly easy to digitise texts, it seems almost obvious to do that with everything that has ever been written. University...
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New podcast on one of Europe's oldest Muslim communities07 August 2025For over six centuries, the Tatars have been part of Poland’s social and cultural fabric. In this 8-episode series, released weekly, professor Maurits...
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Vici for Petra Sijpesteijn: 'Islamic Empire rapidly became unified'09 December 2024After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the Islamic Empire expanded at a tremendous pace. Within a hundred years, it stretched from the Atlantic Ocea...
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Petra Sijpesteijn: 'Membership of foreign academies is incredible recognition'26 November 2024When Petra Sijpesteijn became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, she was the only Dutch member with an appointment at a Dutc...
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Annachiara Raia receives NWO Impact Explorer grant: ‘We want to ensure that literature is once again voiced by its own society and resonates beyond it’02 July 2024For decades, the trade in pocketbooks prescribing how to be a good Muslim flourished in East Africa, but in recent years the number of books in circul...
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Back to the roots of Shia Islam: ‘We need to get the full picture.'06 March 2024When discussing the history of Islam, the focus is almost always on the history of the Sunni majority. University Lecturer in the history of Islam, Ed...
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Two ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers23 November 2023Research on quantum computers and Islamic charities: two Leiden researchers have received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.
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Feminist fatwas: How female Islamic scholars influence the religious landscape in Indonesia02 January 2023If you have a question about the right way to live as a Muslim, to find the answer - the fatwa - you need to speak to an alim (plural ulama), an Isla...
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Researchers from Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’09 August 2022What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. A...
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What can Europe learn from Islamic thought?22 July 2022Islamic banking, freedom of religion, LGBTQ+ acceptance and education are topics that European Muslims find important for their future. These are the ...
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How do European Muslims see their future?30 May 2022Professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger wants to use citizen science to answer this question. On the futureofislam.eu website, he is inviting E...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Marijn van Putten: How many ways are there to read the Quran?11 April 2022
How should the Quran be read? The manuscript of this holy book makes different interpretations possible. Researcher Marijn van Putten has been awarded...
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Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast04 March 2022
Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. I...
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‘Islam is a constant in Europe’: new Humanities podcast delves into the history of Islam07 February 2022
‘Islam and Muslims are not something that happened to Europe; they are part of Europe. In fact, Islam is one the biggest constants in European history...
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam18 November 2021From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of I...