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665 search results for “islam studies” in the Staff website

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  Nico Kaptein Professor Emeritus Islam in South East Asia

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.j.g.kaptein@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Alireza Asghari PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.asghari@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272031

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  Jan Just Witkam Professor emeritus of Codicology

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.j.witkam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171

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  Nathal Dessing University Lecturer Anthropology of Religion

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.m.dessing@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1690

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  Jelle Bruning University Lecturer Middle Eastern Studies / Arabic

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.bruning@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1396

• Was There Indeed a Decline of Ambiguity in Islamic Modernity? Deathbed Emotions as a Case Study Event - 4 December 2025

  Lecture

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  Arnold Mol PhD candidate / lecturer Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.j.w.mol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Maurits Berger Professor of Islam and the West

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.s.berger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1684

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  Ahab Bdaiwi University Lecturer Arabic and Medieval Philosophy and Late Antique Intellectual History

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.bdaiwi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1639

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  John Islam-van Klinken Asset Manager

  ISSC

  j.e.p.m.islam@issc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7026

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  Léon Buskens Director NIMAR

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.p.h.m.buskens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 212 53 76 68500

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  Petra de Bruijn University Lecturer Turkish Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.de.bruijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2592

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  Petra Sijpesteijn Professor of Arabic

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.m.sijpesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2027

• Daring questions in Islam

• Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series Event
• Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia Event - 13 June 2024

  Debate

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  Peter Webb University Lecturer Arabic Literature and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.a.webb@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1689

• From the ground up: The politics of burial and memory in the early Islamic world Event - 6 April 2026

  Conference

• Islamic TV in Indonesia: piety or commodity? News - 9 November 2021

  In Indonesia, some Muslim preachers are TV stars with massive followings. Syahril Siddik studied how they operate and how their viewers react. On 9 November, he successfully defended his dissertation in Islamic Studies.

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  Haneen Omari University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.omari@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5025

• Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast News - 4 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. In eight episodes, professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger argues that the Islam and Muslims are an important part of European history: ‘That was…

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  Rehanna Nurmohamed External PhD researcher

  Faculty of Law

  r.a.nurmohamed.2@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275200

• What can Europe learn from Islamic thought? News - 22 July 2022

  Islamic banking, freedom of religion, LGBTQ+ acceptance and education are topics that European Muslims find important for their future. These are the results of a survey by Professor of Islam and the West, Maurits Berger. The survey is the starting point of a citizen project in which Berger wants to…

• Large grant for research into Islamic non-conformism News - 22 April 2021

  In the coming years, Asghar Seyed Gohrab receives an advanced European Research Council grant of two and a half million euros to spend on his research into non-conformism in Islam. ‘Hopefully I can use this to contribute something to society, to pass something on to future generations.’

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  Hans Theunissen University Lecturer Turkish Studies/Islamic Art and Material Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.p.a.theunissen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6480

• Feminist fatwas of female Islamic scholars News - 2 January 2023

  It matters a lot whether a fatwa is given by a female or male Islamic scholar, discovered doctoral student Nor Ismah.

• ‘Islam is a constant in Europe’: new Humanities podcast delves into the history of Islam News - 7 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,’ argues Professor Maurits Berger in the new eight-part History of Islam in Europe podcast series of the Leiden University Faculty of Humanities.

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  Elena Paskaleva Assistant Professor Critical Heritage Studies of Asia and Europe

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.g.paskaleva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1692

• ‘Islamic primary schools have been important for Muslim emancipation’ News - 31 May 2021

  The opening of Islamic primary schools has made an important contribution to the emancipation and integration of Muslims in the Netherlands. This is the conclusion of PhD candidate Bahaeddin Budak in his research into 25 years (1988-2013) of Islamic primary schools in the Netherlands. PhD defence on…

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  Ian Simpson Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

• Researchers from Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’ News - 9 August 2022

  What 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. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.

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  Verena Meyer University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  v.h.meyer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2281

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  Ab de Jong Professor Comparative Religion and Religions of Antiquity

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.f.de.jong@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272585

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  Sara Bolghiran PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.bolghiran@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1693

• Truces and Rumours of Truces: Hamas's Pragmatism as Expressed Through Its Ceasefires Event - 6 November 2025

  Lecture

• 
  Tsolin Nalbantian Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.nalbantian@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2985

• What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022 Event
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  Edmund Hayes University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4692

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  Crystal Ennis University Lecturer Political Economies of the Middle East

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.a.ennis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5635

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  Christian Henderson University Lecturer International Relations / Modern Middle East Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.j.v.henderson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4995

• What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022 Event
• Leiden University Press Publishing

  Leiden University Press publishes academic books and journals, primarily in the field of humanities and social and behavioural sciences. The press focuses on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, History (Global, Military, Environmental) Archaeology, Asian Studies, Environmental Studies, Literary Studies,…

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  Shuqi Jia PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.jia@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272171

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  Christopher Green University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.k.green@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272327

• 
  Channa Li Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.li.6@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1766

• Syria, one year after the revolution: The role of women and minorities Event - 8 December 2025

  Lecture, Workshop

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  Loes Oudenhuijsen PhD candidate

  African Studies Centre

  l.w.oudenhuijsen@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Peter Verhagen Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.c.verhagen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Sunni constitutional theory in light of an early hadith about obedience Event - 12 November 2025

  Lecture

• 
  Hosna Sheikhattar External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Law

  h.sheikhattar@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727