Wednesday 20 November 2024

Mr. Ade Jaya Suryani defended his thesis on 28 January 2021

While many European universities, Leiden included, have a proud tradition of research into Islamic studies, a topical and thematic focus on Shiʿi Islam in all its dispensation remains a desideratum.

Special Issue in: Visual Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, 2016

LUCIS is directed by Nathal Dessing, who is advised by a steering committee.

Antonia Lamers, PhD at ICLON, researched how to create a TNE teaching and learning environment that is in line with the expectations of the British programmes offered to students in Oman.

The form and content of the course are determined by your answers on the intake form and, if necessary, an intake interview.

Political protest is often at least partially about the question of legitimacy. How can we distinguish whether a regime is legitimate, or merely purports to be so?

Lecture

Islamic Thought and History (ITH) is a peer-reviewed book series that publishes new approaches to Islamic thought and the history of ideas in the Islamic civilisation.

Articles are published in Open Access at no cost to the author.

The Israel-Palestine conflict regularly sparked intense debates in university lecturer Noa Schonmann's classes. She decided to start a podcast with journalist Rajaa Natour to teach her students to have deep and difficult conversations in a nuanced way.

Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World

On 21 September 2022 Arfiansyah successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

The unique geographic and temporal breadth of research at Leiden allows us to stimulate a shift from the classical Weberian mode of scholarly production that views historical development and modernization as emanating from Europe and the West to a multi-polar perspective that allows for more nuanced,…

The authors delve into the varying degrees to which institutions across different nations connect foreign events to their respective country's domestic affairs.

This book is the first comparative study of estimative intelligence and strategic surprise in a European context, complementing and testing insights from previous studies centred on the United States. It does extensive empirical analysis of open-source material and interviews in relation to three cases…

Chaider Bamualim defended his thesis on 9 September 2015

How do crises produce changes in specific European Union foreign policy areas, and how should we conceptualise these policy changes?

Traces of a Colourful Past

Lecture

This film will be screened on Sunday, 15 February 2026 at 7:00 pm.

Two researchers at the Faculty of Archaeology have received a Veni award from the Netherlands Organisation for Academic Research (NWO). This award offers promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their ideas for a period of three years.

Studies on the Disappearance of the Amphora Phenomenon

The coastal site of Butrint is situated on a peninsula in south-western Albania, opposite the island of Corfu and Apulia in southern Italy (across the Adriatic Sea). In Medieval times, Butrint served as a connecting bridge between East and West – between Byzantium and the Latin world.

Fieldwork

In both the autumn and the spring semesters, full bachelor programmes worth 30 ECTS are offered. Besides these study programmes, NIMAR provides an honours track for bachelor students from various disciplinary backgrounds and contributes to study trips in Morocco.

The aim of this project is to study what makes an act or form of violence a specifically political reality.

In ancient times, the steppe in the hinterland of Petra (Jordan) was transformed into a green oasis. This project tries to shed insights in the agricultural, water management and societal processes resulting in this transformation. This will be accomplished by practicing an interdisciplinary research…

Platform for research about heritage languages spoken in the Netherlands

Thursday 21 November 2024

Political Islam is not new to the Middle East, but the appearance of ISIS has stretched the phenomenon to the extreme.

The Leiden Index of Depression Sensitivity (LEIDS) measures cognitive reactivity (CR) to sadness, an aspect of cognitive vulnerability to depression, conceptually similar to rumination.

How does global change across time and space lead to convergence and loss of variation or increasing diversity and conflict?

Now and then we organise book launches to present the latest publications, both academic and popular, in our broad field.

Area studies is an approach to knowledge that starts from the study of places in the human world from antiquity to the present, through the relevant source languages, with central regard for issues of positionality.