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Ron Sela will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in May 2017 02 May 2017
Ron Sela, Associate Professor of Central Asian History in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University – Bloomington, will be the ...
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Call for Applications | LUCIS Summer School | Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World 11 April 2017
Apply now for the LUCIS Summer School on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim world, which will take place from Tuesday 15 August until Friday 25...
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Three ERC Advanced Grants for Leiden researchers 04 April 2017
Archaeologist Frans Theuws, Buddhism specialist Jonathan Silk and mathematician Ronald Cramer have each been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 mill...
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Papyri: the written residue of daily life during the formative period of Islam 30 March 2017
How did people experience Islam on a day-to-day basis in the early centuries of Islam? That's where the papyri come in, says professor of Arabic Petra...
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Ron Sela will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in May 2017 29 March 2017
Ron Sela, Associate Professor of Central Asian History in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University – Bloomington, will be the ...
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The art of control without repression 21 March 2017
How did the Arabs manage to maintain an empire based on Islamic principles for three hundred years? Arab expert Petra Sijpesteijn and her team will b...
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Anime as a source of human knowledge 13 March 2017
Japanese animated films are often fantastic to watch. What's less known is that anime often has a political message. Mari Nakamura researched this phe...
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History and Religious Studies #1 and #2 in The Netherlands in QS World University Rankings 2017 08 March 2017
History and Religious Studies in Leiden rank # 17 and #32 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. With this, History in Leiden ranks as the be...
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Research Trainee Project on Religious Narratives as Plausibility Structures launched 28 February 2017
Religions involve belief in the unbelievable: in evil spirits causing disease, in souls surviving death, and in gods punishing wrongdoers and blessing...
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Temple culture in Ptolemaic Egypt alive and kicking 13 February 2017
Egyptian temple culture was thought to be declining in the Ptolemaic era, after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Nothing could be further f...
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How ‘Mao’s little generals’ wreaked havoc in China 06 February 2017
No matter how hard Chinese communists tried to control the economy, they could not stop the free market from flourishing. This was the message given b...
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Refugee student wins Peter Baehr Prize 2016 02 February 2017
With the support of the Foundation for Refugee Students UAF, Russia expert Oshank Hashemi, a cum laude graduate of Leiden University, has won the Pete...
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Robert D. McChesney will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in February-March 2017 27 January 2017
Robert D. McChesney will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in February-March 2017. Professor McChesney will deliver a guest lecture on 28 Februar...
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Yusen Yu wins MEM Graduate Student Prize 27 January 2017
Yusen Yu wins the prestigious Graduate Student Prize of the Middle East Medievalists (MEM) with his article "Chinese Gold-decorated Paper and the Pers...
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Arabic book design: slow progression 09 January 2017
Since the end of the nineteenth century Arabic book designers have influenced the social and cultural situation in the Middle East with their work. Hu...