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• Reading Arabic: legibility studies for the Arabic script Research output

  What is the cost of visual complexity? This dissertation sets out to determine the effect of the complexity of word formation on the legibility of Arabic and the role that vocalization plays in reading.

• The Excellence of the Arabs Research output

  The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identity—its merits, values, and origins—at a time of political unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most important scholars of the early Abbasid era.

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  Petra Slabber General and Technical Services Account Manager

  Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf

  p.j.slabber@ufb.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2275

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  Petra Penning Student psychologist

  Student and Educational Affairs (SEA)

  p.a.penning@sea.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Petra Nowee

  Gelieerde instellingen

  nowee@kitlv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Petra Awad Education and research technician

  Faculty of Science

  pawad@strw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Petra Scheepers Staff member Salary Administration

  Administrative Shared Service Centre

  p.scheepers@assc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5555

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  Petra Sijpesteijn Professor of Arabic

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Petra Boudewijn University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.r.boudewijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3591

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  Petra Couvée Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.i.couvee@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Politeness in Arabic Papyrus Letters Arabic Studies

  An overview of new research project: Politeness in Arabic Papyrus Letters

• The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society

  Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? And that the Middle East under Muslim rule was the world’s beating heart of trade, but also of science and scholarship?

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  Petra Boerlage Senior advisor leadership and organisational development

  Administration and Central Services

  p.c.boerlage@bb.leidenuniv.nl | +31 6 5028 4515

• Imagining the Arabs Research output

  Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam

• Arabic Academic Language Centre

  We offer General Language Courses and custom-made language training.

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  Petra Evers Coordinator Educational Affairs

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  p.evers@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9589

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  Petra Hogenboom PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Petra van der Laken

  Leiden University Library

  p.van.der.laken@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1556

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  Petra 't Hart Management/office-assistent

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.c.t.hart@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2890

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  Petra Barneveld Assistant Professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  p.s.barneveld@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273869

• Disclosing Arabic Papyri from the Leiden University Library Research project

  Leiden University is famous for its library’s large collection of Oriental manuscripts. Part of this collection is a group of 104 Arabic documents written on papyrus and paper (Or. 8264 and 12885). These documents date from the 7th through 10th century CE and cover a wide range of subjects (private…

• Arabic Studies

  Dating back more than 400 years, Leiden University has the oldest continuous chair of Arabic outside the Arabic-speaking world. Today the MENA region is studied at Leiden from before the coming of Islam up to today from a wide array of disciplines. And Arabic is studied within the diverse linguistic,…

• Arabic 1 Course
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  Arab Qadri Student assistant

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  a.qadri@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Workshop: Arabic manuscripts and how to read them (Two-day introductory workshop) Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo

• Arabic 2 Course
• Arabic 3 Course
• Arabic 7 Course
• Arabic 4 Course
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  Petra van der Weel Coordinator CWTS Office

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  p.c.van.der.weel@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6179

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  Petra van der Helm Management/office assistant

  Faculty of Law

  p.s.j.van.der.helm@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273596

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  Petra van den Bekerom Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  p.e.a.van.den.bekerom@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500

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  Anna Petra Nieboer Guest Lecturer

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  a.p.nieboer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Petra van Egmond-Herruer Staff Member Cleaning Control

  Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf

  p.j.m.van.egmondherruer@ufb.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3172

• Private Arabic Classes Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo

  The institute offers private Arabic tutoring to the general public, taught by the NVIC staff teachers. We offer classes in both Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, on all levels.

• Expressions of "war" and "peace" in medieval Arabic North African conquest narratives Event - 12 February 2026

  Lecture | Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture

• Language Courses Arabic

  The Academic Language Centre Leiden offers Arabic language courses at many different levels, an intensive summer course and customised Arabic language training. The courses are practical in nature: focusing on the use of the language. More information can be found here >

• Arabic & Islamic Studies Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo

  The Institute organises Arabic courses for universities, but also for companies, international organisations and individuals.

• Arabic Language and Culture (BA)

  Do you want to discover a language and culture that is completely different from the Netherlands?

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  Petra Kamer-de Graaf Controller

  Administration and Central Services

  p.m.kamer@bb.leidenuniv.nl | 06 18477476

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  Petra de Bruijn University Lecturer Turkish Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• Arabic & Islamic Studies Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo

  Research projects which are assisted by the NVIC in the field of Arabic studies.

• Arabic and its Alternatives Research output

  Arabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War.

• Arabic in context: celebrating 400 years of Arabic at Leiden university Research output

  The edited volume 'Arabic in context: celebrating 400 years of Arabic at Leiden University' edited by Ahmad Al-Jallad is out. The volume contains the contributions to the 2013 conference with the same title, held at Leiden University and was published as part of Brill's the Studies in Semitics Language…

• TAFL Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo

  From Tuesday 6 January till Tuesday 15 January 2026, NVIC organizes a new edition of the TAFL course. This intensive, interactive course is developed for (future) teachers of Arabic. It addresses both the practical aspects of teaching Arabic as a foreign language as well as the underlying linguistic…

• Framing the Conquest: Bactrian local rulers and Arab muslim domination of Bactria (31-128 AH/651-746 CE) Research output

  On Thursday 28 March 2024 Said Reza Huseini successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

• Online Course Cosmopolitain Medieval Arabic World

  In this course, we will focus on the fascinating history of the Arabic Medieval World. We will take you on a journey through the Middle Ages. All along, we will present you with historiographical debates and dilemmas and travel back and forth in time explaining to you how events of the past affected…

• Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE Research output

  During the period 500–1000 CE Egypt was successively part of the Byzantine, Persian and Islamic empires. All kinds of events, developments and processes occurred that would greatly affect its history and that of the eastern Mediterranean in general. This is the first volume to map Egypt's position in…

• How Arabic influenced Berber, and the typology of contact-induced change Research project

  This project investigates the influence that Arabic (esp. dialectal Arabic) has had on the Berber languages of Northern Africa.

• The Arab Thieves: al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Research output

  Vol. V, Sections 1-2