563 search results for “egypt” in the Public website
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The Apocalypse of Paul (Visio Pauli) in Sahidic Coptic
Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary
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Classics (800 BCE - 600 CE)
This research cluster aims to analyse and interpret the formation and transmission of Graeco-Roman culture by exploring the relationships between cultural products (texts, objects, practices) and their societal and historical contexts.
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Hellenistische Rechtsfiguren in het Romeins Recht
In what way did Hellenistic legal institutions concerning secured credit influence Roman law?
- Week 7-8: 19-28 February 2017
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Strengthening European research networks: Archaeologist Miguel John Versluys honored with prestigious Humboldt Research Award
Professor Miguel John Versluys of Leiden University has been recognised with the esteemed Humboldt Research Award, a testament to his groundbreaking work in global archaeology, reception-studies and the deep history of globalisation. The award, granted by the Alexander von Humbold-Stiftung, celebrates…
- Week 7: 16–22 February
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Arabic & Islamic Studies
Research projects which are assisted by the NVIC in the field of Arabic studies.
- Week 2: 12-18 January 2025
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The Leiden University Mission to the Theban Necropolis, TT45 Project, Luxor West Bank
Mission Director: Dr. Carina van den Hoven
- Week 6-7 (15-26 February)
- Week 4–5 (1–14 February)
- Week 2: 14-20 January 2018
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Hajj: Global Interactions through Pilgrimage
Every year, in the last month of the Islamic calendar, millions of Muslims from around the world come together in Mecca to perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that all capable Muslims should perform at least once in their lives. In 2013, the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden organised the exhibition…
- December 2023
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The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
The Case of the Painted Plaster
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Middle East
Leiden’s expertise on the Middle East spans from ancient history to contemporary tensions in the region. By studying languages, cultures, religions, literature, art, and philosophy in in conjunction, we create an indispensable, in-depth understanding.
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The Nature of the Workmen's Marks and Their Interaction with Writing
The project concerns the nature, the usages and functions of pictographic systems in relation to writing in societies with (restricted) literacy.
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Education
Leiden University offers courses about papyri and papyrology for beginners and more advanced students (BA and MA), both based on texts in translation as well as in the original source languages, from Egyptian to Greek, Latin and Arabic.
- Week 1: 8–11 January
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Classics and Ancient Civilizations (research) (MA)
The Classics and Ancient Civilizations (Research) master's at Leiden University covers the entire range of present-day research on the civilisations of Greece and Rome, Egypt and the Ancient Near East.
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About the programme
When you choose to study the Assyriology Research MA, you will both be guided through the broadness of Assyriological sub-disciplines, as well as gradually led to develop your own specific research skills.
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The art of control without repression
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 be examining this question over the coming five years, focusing on the correspondence of ordinary people. The research is being funded by an ERC Consolidator…
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“Dizzy with Wonder:” Early Cinema and the Birth of Movie-Fandom in Egypt, 1896-1935
Lecture
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Sarah SchraderFaculty of Archaeology
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Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890: Intercultural Engagements with Architecture and Craft in the Age of Travel
This beautifully illustrated volume investigates the social life of objects moving between the Middle East and the West, revealing the range of agencies and subjectivities involved in their trade and reuse.
- Material Culture, Art, and Architecture of Pre-Safavid Shīʿism
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Bioarchaeology
Bioarchaeology covers the study of all biological remains from archaeological sites.
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2025
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Alignment in Eastern Neo-Aramaic Languages from a Typological Perspective
On October 31st, Paul Noorlander succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Paul on this great result.
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Hieratic, Demotic and Greek Studies and Text Editions. Of Making Many Books There Is No End: Festschrift in Honour of Sven P. Vleeming
Just published:
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Epistemological Inquiry into Islam’s Moral Economic Teachings, Legal Discourse, and Islamization Process
Mr. S. Al Daghistani defended his thesis on 30 November 2017
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Archaeological Studies Leiden University
ASLU (Archaeological Studies Leiden University) is a peer-reviewed book series produced by the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.
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Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 21
Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 21, 2005
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Publications
LUCIS publishes two peer-reviewed book series, “Leiden Studies in Islam and Society” (Brill) and “Debates on Islam and Society” (Leiden University Press).
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Shaping a Muslim State
The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official
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The Iseum Campense from the Roman Empire to the Modern Age. Temple - monument - lieu de mémoire
The Iseum Campense, the impressive sanctuary for Isis and the Egyptian gods on the Campus Martius and arguably one of ancient Rome’s most notable absent presences, is a monument central to various debates.
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Irrigating the Desert
Water Management, Agricultural Practices, and Social Complexity in Southern Turkmenistan during the Bronze Age
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Power, Politics and the Cults of Isis
Proceedings of the Vth International Conference of Isis Studies, Boulogne-sur-Mer, October 13-15, 2011
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Protective Interventions by Local Elites in the Countryside of Early Islamic Egypt
PhD defence
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Shii Funerary inscriptions and Religious Identity in Early Islamic Egypt
Lecture
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The Teaching of Khety and Its Use as an Educational Tool in Ancient Egypt
PhD defence
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on ancestor worship, law, social status and gender norms in Ancient Egypt
PhD defence
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Graduate School of Humanities
Welcome to the Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities.
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Day 1
Tuesday 19 November 2024
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Spectacle and Surveillance: The Making and Unmaking of Collective Visual History
What is the iconography of propaganda specifically as it relates to the historical development of political ideologies in modern Egypt and how was/is this propaganda disseminated among creative fields such as cinema, art, monuments, architecture, and literature?
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Globalisation and the Roman world
World history, connectivity and material culture, edited by Martin Pitts and Miguel John Versluys. From Cambridge University Press.
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Specters of Cavafy
Haunting the future through poetry
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'Authentic Islam': The Religious Profile of Taqī al-Dīn al-Hilālī (1893-1987) as Reflected in his Fatwas
Abdessamad El Amraoui defended his thesis on 6 Mai 2015.
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Human Osteology and Funeral Archaeology
The Laboratory for Human Osteoarchaeology specialises in the macroscopic and microscopic analysis of human remains. We use cutting edge scientific approaches to address archaeological, historical, and anthropological research questions. In addition to paleopathological, histological, and 3D scanning…