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Summer School: Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World, Leiden University, August 18-29, 2025

Posted on May 30, 2025
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Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World

Date: 18 August – 29 August 2025
Costs: €600
Level: The course is meant for graduate students (MA and PhD) and researchers.
Language: English. Non-native speakers are required to have a command of English equivalent to at least TOEFL 550.
Scholarships: There are two scholarships to cover the tuition for students who don’t have access to funding from their home institutions or otherwise. To be considered for this scholarship, please provide an official letter from your institution stating that they cannot provide the tuition fee.

The deadline for applications is the 5th of May.

For applications details and more information, visit the link here.

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Postdoctoral opportunity in History of Islam/Arabic Studies, Leiden University, February 2024-2027

Posted on November 02, 2023
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Scholars have long recognized that although Shiʿi claims emerged early in Islamic history, Imami Shiʿism took a couple of centuries to crystallise. Scholarship on Shiʿism has tended to focus on doctrine, but hitherto there has been little research into the institutions and social networks of early Imami Shiʿism. The project aims to propose the first rigorously historical model for how, when and why a distinctive Imami Shiʿi Imamate emerged and developed as an institution. The ImBod project will frame the Imamate as a set of social interactions between the Imams, and the community who venerated them, within the broader networks of the early Islamic empire. Members of the ImBod project team will be assigned particular thematic spheres in order to identify and study the networks, actors, institutions, spaces, objects and processes through which the Imamate was mediated and performed within the Imami Shiʿi community and beyond.

For eligibility criteria and application details, see here.