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373 search results for “islam and petra” in the Staff website

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  Bareez Majid Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.majid@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275154

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  Maja Vodopivec Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  m.vodopivec@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009472

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  Marijn van Putten Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.van.putten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271583

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  Christian Henderson University Lecturer International Relations / Modern Middle East Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.j.v.henderson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274995

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  Douglas Berger Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.l.berger@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276497

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  Suliman Ibrahim Senior Researcher

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  s.m.k.ibrahim@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277517

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  Liesbeth van der Heide Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  e.j.van.der.heide@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009506

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  Joery Matthys Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  j.matthys@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009395

• LUCSoR welcomes Verena Meyer to the staff News - 14 February 2024

  LUCSoR is happy to welcome Verena Myer, researcher and lecturer in Islam in South and South-East Asia to the staff. In this interview she will discuss the course she is teaching, as well as her upcoming book.

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

  Lecture | LUCIS What's New?!

• 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,…

• ERC Consolidator Grant for Marijn van Putten: How many ways are there to read the Quran? News - 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 an ERC Consolidator Grant of two million euros to explore centuries-old recitations.

• In memoriam Sjoerd van Koningsveld (1943-2021) News - 2 August 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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  Yifan Hu PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.hu.24@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Katarína Mokránová PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.mokranova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272578

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  Ayub Ayub PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.ayub@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272331

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  Nasser Alajmi PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.f.n.f.alajmi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Hylke Hettema PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.m.hettema@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mark Loderichs PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.a.loderichs@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• LUCSoR Staff Activism Against University Budget-Cuts News - 14 September 2024

  On Tuesday, September 17th, the Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, will present the plans of the new government of the Netherlands. This government’s aspirations, led by the party (PVV) of right-wing nationalist Geert Wilders, are mostly defined by budget cuts. One of the sectors receiving such budget cuts…

• Academic and non-academic staff do an exchange: ‘We don’t know enough about each other’s worlds’ News - 21 March 2024

  At a work meal HR Policy Adviser Petra Boerlage and Associate Professor Robert Stein got talking about the ‘worlds’ of academic and support staff: are they really that different, they wondered. And wouldn’t it be good if staff knew more about each other? The two put their money where their mouths are…

• Committee on Human Rights / Conflict Zones Responsible collaboration

  On 27 May 2025, the Executive Board decided to establish a Committee on Human Rights / Conflict Zones.

• Picturing Scholasticide: Exhibition Launch Event - 11 February 2026

  Exhibition

• Veni for Verena Meyer: 'Not every religious manuscript is meant to be digitised' News - 26 August 2025

  Now that it is becoming increasingly easy to digitise texts, it seems almost obvious to do that with everything that has ever been written. University lecturer Verena Meyer thinks that is too simplistic. ‘We need to look more closely at the political and cultural effects of digitisation.’

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  Jan Michiel Otto Professor emeritus

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  j.m.otto@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277260

• Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge News - 12 March 2024

  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).…

• Muslim Futures Festival Event - 12 December 2025

  Arts and culture, Festival

• Four Leiden professors elected members of the KHMW News - 24 February 2025

  The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) has appointed four Leiden professors as members. Petra Sijpesteijn, Vanessa Mak, Mariska Kret and Miranda van Eck have recently joined the KHMW.

• What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2024 Event
• Research schools

  Many PhD candidates, as well as research master students at the Faculty of Humanities, are members of a research school related to their area of expertise. Research schools aim at the collaboration of researchers from different faculties in the same university (interfaculty schools) or in different…

• Social media Humanities Guidelines and support

  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.

• In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023) News - 1 February 2023

  On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.

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  Bart Schuurman Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  b.w.schuurman@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009347

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  Frans Gracia Lebbink

  f.theuws@arch.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Rizal Shidiq University Lecturer, Economies in South and Southeast Asia

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.r.shidiq@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278057

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  Maarten Kossmann Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.g.kossmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272649

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  Marlou Schrover Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.l.j.c.schrover@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272786

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  Francesco Ragazzi Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  f.ragazzi@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy News - 31 August 2021

  This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.

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  Finn Lindo-Dunn PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.c.lindo-dunn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272210

• What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023 Event
• What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024 Event
• Demonstration, security and university ties: Executive Board answers University Council’s questions News - 3 June 2025

  The University Council meeting on 2 June was largely dominated by the demonstration, occupation and policing in The Hague last month.

• Beyond Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History Event - 13 November 2025

  Lecture, LUCIS Keynote

• Highlighting Dutch-Jordanian archaeological cooperation in Udhruh News - 28 October 2024

  In 2011, the University of Hussein Bin Talal in Maan and Leiden University initiated the joint Udhruh Archaeological Project, led by Professors Fawzi Abudanah and Mark Driessen.

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  Salwa Tareen Postdoc

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.n.tareen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Birte Kristiansen Management assistant

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.kristiansen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2025 Event
• Forgotten heroes

• Mark Driessen's Jordan fieldwork features in Photo Exhibition News - 19 December 2022

  The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden features a small photo exhibition on Mark Driessen's fieldwork research project in Southern Jordan. In this small exhibition you will see a selection of nine photos, made in Udhruh. This ancient Jordanian settlement lies fifteen kilometres east of Petra,…