Apply Now for LUCIS Summer School on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World

This summer the Leiden department of Middle East Studies together with the University Library will organize the sixth Leiden summer school in Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World from August 19, 2024, to August 30, 2024. The deadline for applications is Wednesday May 1, 2024. Participants will be informed about the selection by Friday May 3, 2024. 

Lecturers from Leiden University and guest lecturers cover topics from the practicalities of working with and reading manuscripts, the materiality and codicology of manuscripts to how ownership and marginal notes can be used to reconstruct the social life of manuscripts using samples in Turkish, Persian, Ethiopic, Arabic and Indonesian languages. Participants work afternoons on an individual project using samples from the Oriental manuscripts collection.

There are two scholarships covering the tuition cost for participants not from Leiden University.

For information on the program and how to apply, click here.