2,663 search results for “arabic literature” in the Public website
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Vacancy for a Professor Middle Dutch literature and culture (Utrecht)
Utrecht University has a vacancy for a professor Middle Dutch literature and culture. Deadline for applications: 6 November 2021.
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Launch Leiden | Islam interview series
Why is Arabic poetry relevant for our understanding of the Arabic-speaking world? Arabist James Montgomery explains this in the first video interview of the Leiden | Islam interview series produced by Leiden Islam Centre LUCIS. 'If there is anything which is going to make the situation worse, it is…
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Gabriel Inzaurralde: ‘Literature lets you live four times as long'
As a young boy, Gabriel Inzaurralde, lecturer and researcher in Latin American studies, wanted nothing more than to become a writer. He still writes and passes on lessons from Latin American literature and culture to his students. 'My lectures are a constant attempt to reopen closed minds.'
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Theory and practice of linguistic stylistics
The linguistic project constitutes the connection between the two other subprojects. It consists of two parts.
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Arthur CrucqFaculty of Humanities
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Ako TsujitaFaculty of Humanities
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Emma de VriesFaculty of Humanities
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Stephen van BeekFaculty of Humanities
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Christoph PieperFaculty of Humanities
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Wilt IdemaFaculty of Humanities
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Kirsty RolfeFaculty of Humanities
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Noa SchonmannFaculty of Humanities
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The Rule is for None but Allah
From the rise and fall of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, to Islamic State’s attempts to create its own currency, to the dramatic return of the Taliban in Afghanistan, this edited volume from two leading scholars of contemporary terrorism assembles an enviable array of international experts to explore these…
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Ton Anbeek van der MeydenFaculty of Humanities
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Jessie Morgan-OwensFaculty of Humanities
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The Figure of Abraham in the Metrical Homilies of Jacob of Sarug: Its Literary and Theological Context
This project is a close and sensitive contextual study of Jacob of Sarug's (ca. 451-521 AD) metrical homily
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Online Conference: Wisdom Literature in Early Islam
Conference
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Middle Eastern Studies (research) (MA)
Designed for high-achieving students, Leiden University's master's in Middle Eastern Studies (Research) offers you unmatched resources and expertise.
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A grammar of Kumzari : a mixed Perso-Arabian language of Oman
This book presents an in-depth grammatical description of Kumzari, a mixed language spoken in remote villages on the Musandam Peninsula in northern Oman.
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Speech intelligibility problems of Sudanese learners of English. An experimental approach
This dissertation aims at discussing the nature and the linguistic factors assumed responsible for speech intelligibility problems of Sudanese learners of English.
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Style in Dutch literary prose
Terms used by literary critics in characterizing the style of novels are often impressionistic (‘baroque’, ‘austere’, ‘vivid’, ‘cerebral’ etc.). Foundations for such evaluations are usually not provided. A scientific way of studying and explaining style is lacking in present day Dutch Studies. Suzanne…
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Olga van MarionFaculty of Humanities
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Otto BoeleFaculty of Humanities
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Nick TombergeFaculty of Humanities
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Holly RiachFaculty of Humanities
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Dies Natalis 2023
University ceremony
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Dimitris Kentrotis ZinelisFaculty of Humanities
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Rolf BremmerFaculty of Humanities
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Beyond Dissemination: Hindustani Identifications at the Nexus of Tradition and Modernity
An interdisciplinary cultural analysis of how the Hindustani double migration informs contemporary processes of identification and problematises the juxtaposition of tradition and modernity.
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The Palestinian music-making experience in the West Bank, 1920s to 1959: Nationalism, colonialism, and identity
Before 1936, musical practices in Palestine relied heavily on colloquial poetry, especially in rural communities, which constituted most of the population. In this dissertation, Issa Boulos has examined historical records that revealed many differences and similarities between Palestinian communities…
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Arabic Language Workshop
Festival, Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019
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‘A logical step from medieval literature to fact-checking’
Alumnus Peter Burger – along with his colleague Alexander Pleijter – is the face of fact-checking in the Netherlands. ‘My degree led straight to this.’
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Peter Webb’s EPIC PASTS explores how Muslims viewed their pre-history
Peter Webb is one of the four young Leiden Humanities researchers to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Webb will use the funding for his project EPIC PASTS: PRE-ISLAM THROUGH MUSLIM EYES, to reevaluate the ways in which Muslims in early Islam remembered…
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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The art of control without repression
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 be examining this question over the coming five years, focusing on the correspondence of ordinary people. The research is being funded by an ERC Consolidator…
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
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Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes
From Crisis to Critique
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Initiatives
LUCITH runs a number of initiatives and programmes. Below you will find a list of initiatives and activities by the Centre for Islamic Thought and History.
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The Development of the Modern Arabic Egyptian Novel from a Historical and Political Perspective (1800-2018)
Lecture
- Volume IV 2010
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Geert Prins
Faculty of Humanities
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Aminuddin Siregar
Faculty of Humanities
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Sjef HouppermansFaculty of Humanities
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Staff
The NVIC team consists of 16 regular members and several freelancers.
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Ton van Kalmthout new professor of special appointment of Dutch Literature
As of 1 September, Ton van Kalmthout has been appointed professor by special appointment of International Exchange of Dutch Literature in a Historical Perspective. In addition to his research into the import and export of Dutch literature, Van Kalmthout will also teach at Leiden University.
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Paul van HeckFaculty of Humanities
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Eric van HoofBestuursbureau
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Paul SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Julia SzirmaiFaculty of Humanities
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Looi van KesselFaculty of Humanities