Ab de Jong

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Ab de Jong

Ab de Jong

@ab_jong

Professor of the Study of Religion in the University of Leiden. Works on Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, the Mandaeans and Mithras. Academic director of the LIAS.

Leiden, the Netherlands Katılım Kasım 2012
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Read. Watch. Discuss. 📖 Dive into Parsi Literature in English with TISS–PARZOR. Online | Starts 17 Feb 2026 Enrol: tiss.parzor@gmail.com
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Mihaela outlines the impact of Aristotelian logic on Zoroastrian apologetic and polemical works of the Abbasid period. We had a lot to discuss!
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Yesterday, Mihaela Timuş successfully obtained the “habilitation” for the HDR at the EPHE in Paris. The main subject for discussion was her new book on “patterns of reasoning in Dēnkard 3.
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Yesterday, Alberto Bernard successfully defended his dissertation on “Le clergé zoroastrien aux époques sassanide et post-sassanide: sources, histoire, mémoire” at the EPHE/PSL in Paris - an excellent and very inspiring dissertation.
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Tomorrow at 2.30 pm local time, @MayShaddel will defend his dissertation “Apocalypse, Empire, and Universal Mission at the End of Antiquity: World Religions at the Crossroads” in Leiden.
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@scramsey6 @LeidenHum @profclwilliams Great news, Sarah - congratulations! Five years of toys and playgrounds, diapers and wet nurses in a context of disintegrating empires, war, genocide, new nation states, despotism, occupation, freedom, hope. It takes a special scholar to do this kind of work.
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I am thrilled and humbled to be on this list! Thanks @LeidenHum, @ab_jong @profclwilliams and many dear colleagues from near and far who supported my application for this #ERCStG project on early childcare in modern central and Eastern Europe! #CareCentury
Leiden University@UniLeidenNews

Ten scientists from Leiden University will receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. This will allow them to launch their own project, form their own research team and implement their best ideas. universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

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Super pleased that Nolke Tasma received a grant to do a PhD on Aramaic Epigraphy in the Roman East and the Parthian Commonwealth with Margaretha Folmer and me. nwo.nl/nieuws/financi…
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Dr Olivia Ramble! All went well - very proud of a brilliant young scholar
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Tomorrow at 3 pm local time, Olivia Ramble will defend her dissertation “Historiography and Palaeography of Sasanian Middle Persian Inscriptions” in Leiden.
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It was emotional, groundbreaking and deeply human. It was an unforgettable moment to see a young colleague shine.
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Today, Sarah Cramsey @scramsey6 gave her inaugural lecture as professor by special appointment of Central European History @LeidenHum. She lectured about care for small children in the Warsaw Ghetto, in Auschwitz-Birkenau and among Polish Jews who survived WW II in Central Asia.
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Many congratulations to Reza Huseini @HuseiniSaid, who successfully defended his PhD on the Arab conquest of Bactria today! One more result from the @EmCoteam project @LeidenHum. Reza, we are all extremely proud of you!
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@JeffreyKotyk That looks great, Jeffrey. I am really looking forward to forward to reading it.
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The table of contents for my forthcoming book, Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity: China and the Parthians, Sasanians, and Arabs in the First Millennium. It will be open access (free to download from the publisher).
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