578 search results for “ancient arabic” in the Staff website
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Jacques van der VlietFaculty of Humanities
j.van.der.vliet@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272221
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Bert van den BergFaculty of Humanities
r.m.van.den.berg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272680
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Christoph PieperFaculty of Humanities
c.pieper@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272673
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Koen Donker Van HeelFaculty of Humanities
k.donker.van.heel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Casper de JongeFaculty of Humanities
c.c.de.jonge@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272678
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Jurjen DonkersFaculty of Humanities
j.donkers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Gus KrausFaculty of Humanities
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Carlo van Oosterhout
Faculty of Humanities
c.a.van.oosterhout@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jörn SoerinkFaculty of Humanities
j.soerink@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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P. de GrootFaculty of Humanities
p.z.de.groot@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271954
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Skin and Beyond: Reading the Surfaces of the Body in Ancient Greek Literature
PhD defence
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Petra Sijpesteijn elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (AIBL), one of the five academies that make up the Institut de France, has elected professor Petra Sijpesteijn as foreign corresponding member (correspondant étranger), to fill the seat of the renowned Egyptologist Edda Bresciani.
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Adam RamadhanFaculty of Humanities
a.a.a.h.ramadhan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276139
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Youssef CherifFaculty of Humanities
y.c.cherif@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Shuqi JiaFaculty of Humanities
s.jia@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
j.j.witkam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ibrahim Harun DemirelFaculty of Humanities
i.h.demirel@phil.leidenuniv.nl |
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Sai EnglertFaculty of Humanities
s.p.englert@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272738
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Committee on Human Rights / Conflict Zones
On 27 May 2025, the Executive Board decided to establish a Committee on Human Rights / Conflict Zones.
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Chasing Events
Booklaunch
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other projects will receive funding from the JEDI Fund in 2023.
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Alwin KloekhorstFaculty of Humanities
a.kloekhorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277977
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Social media
Making use of social media is a good way to meet others or to hear about the latest news and developments. But it also has its downsides: disinformation, trolling, disrespectful comments and even the misuse of (personal) data.
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Archaeologist Jennifer Swerida investigates emergent social complexity in the Omani desert
In June 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new Assistant Professor. Dr Jennifer Swerida, originally from the United States, will strengthen the Faculty’s expertise on the archaeology of West Asia. ‘I explore human-environment relationships inside an ancient oasis and the surrounding land. Previous…
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Frans de HaasFaculty of Humanities
f.a.j.de.haas@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272010
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Qiang 羌, Rong 戎, Yangtong ⽺同, and Tufan 吐蕃 in Ancient Chinese Sources and Their Tibetan Correspondences
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Materiality, Religion and the Senses
Conference, L*CeSAR Masterclass
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In Memoriam: Rudolf E. de Jong (1958–2024)
On Friday 16 February 2024, Rudolf E. de Jong passed away unexpectedly in Cairo. Since 2012, he was the director of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC), which he skillfully managed for 12 years. He was laid to rest in Amsterdam on 27 February. Rudolf was 65.
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Materiality, Religion and the Environment
Conference, L*CeSAR Research Workshop
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Noortje van SwietenFaculty of Humanities
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Patricia KretFaculty of Humanities
p.m.m.kret@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273466
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Sacrifice and Social Imaginary in Hellenistic Kos
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Sensing Scripts: Popular Religion, the Senses and Textuality
Lecture, Keynote
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In memoriam Sjoerd van Koningsveld (1943-2021)
We are saddened by the news of the unexpected passing of prof.dr. Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld on 28 July 2021.
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The Ptolemaic Ruler Cult in Egypt: The Greek Temple of Hermopolis Magna in its Religious and Socio-Historical Context
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Caste: A Global History
Lecture, Book Talk
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Elementary: The chemical fingerprints of massive galaxy formation over cosmic time
PhD defence
- Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule
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Restoring the reputation of the Javanese tradition of the Uttarakāṇḍa: ‘If you ignore one of the traditions, you ignore information about the
For almost a millennium, it was rewritten time and again: the Old Javanese literary prose work Uttarakāṇḍa. The tradition soon split into two major branches: a Javanese and a Balinese one. However, until now, scholarly editions have focused solely on the Balinese version. Unjustly so, argues PhD candidate…
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Archaeology alumni awarded prestigious Shelby White and Leon Levy Grant
The Faculty of Archaeology is pleased to announce that alumni Dr Diederik J. H. Halbertsma (NINO, Leiden University) and Dr Michel de Vreeze (Durham University) have been awarded a grant from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications.
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Petra Sijpesteijn: 'Membership of foreign academies is incredible recognition'
When Petra Sijpesteijn became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, she was the only Dutch member with an appointment at a Dutch university. Two years later, she is also the only Dutch member of the Austrian Academy and officially joined the British Academy on 7 October.
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Executive Board column: Our institutes abroad are part of our international DNA
Ever since its foundation, Leiden University has turned its gaze outwards to other cultures, languages and forms of academic practice. It is only natural, therefore, that we as a university have four institutes abroad: the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV-KNAW)…
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Cultural contacts between ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the early Middle Ages
With the help of the JEDI fund, Fatima al Moufridji and Thijs Porck went in search of cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. Together they made four knowledge clips that can now be seen on YouTube.
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Stereotypes and Misconceptions about the Middle East - The Reading List
The perception of the Middle East is riddled with stereotypes that have had dire consequences on its people. What is myth and what is reality? How did these stereotypes come about? What consequences have they had? All of these questions and more are answered within this reading list.
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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
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Zahra AzharFaculty of Humanities
z.azhar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Cristiana StravaFaculty of Humanities
c.strava@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274676
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
n.j.g.kaptein@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Yunnan Ye
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Podcast: this is how you create a dictionary for an unknown Middle Eastern language
Leiden scholars succeeded in making Arabic accessible to Western academic communities as early as the sixteenth century. But how did they approach this problem?