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• 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.

• Lecture: Zaydis, Salafis and Houthis and Their Engagement with the Islamic Tradition in Yemen Event - 22 January 2024

  Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series

• Interdisciplinary roundtable: Commitment, Islam and Social Justices in Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir’s Swahili Poetry Event - 23 May 2023

  Debate

• Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World Event - 16 April 2024

  Lecture, Studium Generale

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  Mayke Kaag Professor Anthropology of Politics and Governance in Africa

  African Studies Centre

  m.m.a.kaag@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3375

• Protective Interventions by Local Elites in the Countryside of Early Islamic Egypt Event - 13 September 2023

  PhD defence

• Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642 Event - 7 March 2024

  Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series

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  Haneen Omari University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• 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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  Corey Williams Senior university lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.l.williams@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6903

• 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.

• 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…

• 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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  Remke Kruk Professor emeritus of Arabic Language and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.kruk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Forgotten heroes

• Korean delegation from Ministry of Government Legislation visits IIASL News - 12 September 2022

  On 31 August 2022, a delegation from the Korean Ministry of Government Legislation visited the International Institute of Air and Space Law (IIASL) at Leiden University as part of their official visit to the Netherlands. The delegation’s visit was aimed at exchanging knowledge and experience on interaction…

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  Arnoud Vrolijk Guest

  Leiden University Library

  a.j.m.vrolijk@library.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Arnout van Ree Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.t.s.a.van.ree@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009010

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  Birte Kristiansen Management assistant

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Khodadad Rezakhani Researcher / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.rezakhani@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Rashed Nazrabi Student assistant

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.j.nazrabi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Abdallah Abu Ayyash Student assistant

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.abu.ayyash@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Salwa Tareen Postdoc

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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

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  Francesca Rosati PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.rosati@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ercan Büyükçifçi PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.buyukcifci@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ugur Derin PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  u.derin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Publish or Perish: Religious Zaydi publishers in Yemen during the 1990s Event - 8 June 2023

  Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series

• Call for papers: Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE) News - 14 November 2025

  We invite proposals for the conference entitled ‘Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE)’ to be held in Leiden between 14-16 September 2026.

• Verena Meyer at the Sanubari Nuris Bali International Webinar News - 13 May 2024

  On Saturday, May 4, Dr. Verena Meyer delivered opening remarks at the International Webinar 'Santri, Literacy, and Indonesia', organized by the Bali Santri Literacy Community (Sanubari) Nurul Ikhlas Islamic Boarding School in Jembrana, Bali, Indonesia.

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  Annachiara Raia University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.raia@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275283

• 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.

• The battle over marriage in Indonesia News - 13 December 2023

  The Indonesian government has been trying to enforce marriage and divorce laws for some time. These efforts are encountering resistance from both local communities and the Indonesian Supreme Court. PhD candidate Al Farabi investigated where this resistance comes from.

• What does Islamist rule look like? News - 13 June 2023

  Joana Cook talks about the Islamist parties increasingly taking power in the last four decades on ABC News.

• Professor bids farewell with roadshow in Indonesia: 'One big celebration of recognition' News - 12 October 2023

  Whereas most outgoing professors are offered a congress, Nico Kaptein's former students and PhD students took a bigger approach. They treated him not only to a farewell congress, but also to a two-week tour of Indonesia, filled with lectures, and trips.

• Petra Sijpesteijn elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres News - 23 August 2022

  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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  Gabrielle van den Berg Academic director LIAS / professor Cultural History of Iran and Central Asia

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.r.van.den.berg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272023

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  Nurul Huda Binte Abdul Rashid Postdoc

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  n.huda.binte.abdul.rashid@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Edmund Frettingham Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  e.j.frettingham@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500

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  Riia Timonen PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Archaeology

  r.e.timonen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Sai Englert Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.p.englert@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2738

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  Marc van Oudheusden PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.l.m.van.oudheusden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Harry Stroomer Professor emeritus of Afroasiatic Languages

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.j.stroomer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Omer Karaca Dual PhD candidate

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  o.karaca@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

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  Azzeddine Karrat PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.karrat@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marija Seric External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.seric@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Youssef Cherif PhD candidate / Self Funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.cherif@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nur Ahmad PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.ahmad@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278821

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  Arman Hasan PhD candidate

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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