Members
Prof Dr Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Project leader
Phone: +31 (0)71 527 2027
E-mail: p.m.sijpesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Office and postal address:
Witte Singel 25 / M. de Vrieshof 4, room 109b
2311 BZ Leiden, The Netherlands
Dr Janneke H.M. de Jong
Janneke de Jong works on the edition and study of Greek papyri from the first two centuries after the Arab conquest of Egypt.
Phone: +31 (0)71 527 2906
E-mail: j.h.m.de.jong@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Office and postal address:
Universiteitsbibliotheek, room 108
Witte Singel 26-27
2311 BG Leiden, The Netherlands
Dr Gesa Schenke
Within the FOI project, Gesa Schenke, a specialist in Coptic Studies and Papyrology, is responsible for discovering and editing new documents from the early Islamic period written in Coptic, the Egyptian language at the time. To obtain this goal, she is consulting material in various European papyrus collections, such as the Berliner and Kölner Papyrussammlung in Germany, the collection of the Bodleian Library in Oxford and the British Library in London.
Phone: +31 (0)71 527 2727
E-mail: g.schenke@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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Khaled Younes
Khaled Younes will study and comment on a group of related, unpublished Arabic papyri from the two earliest centuries of Islam. These papyri will be selected from different papyrus collections in Europe.
Phone: +31 (0)71 527 2198
E-mail: k.younes@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Office and postal address:
Witte Singel 25 / M. de Vrieshof 4, room 015
2311 BZ Leiden, The Netherlands
Marie A.L. Legendre
In October 2008, Marie Legendre started her PhD research in Paris under the supervision of Jean-Pierre van Staëvel (Professor in Islamic Archaeology, Paris-Sorbonne) and Sylvie Denoix (Director of Studies of the French Institute of Archaeology in Cairo-IFAO) on Middle Egypt between the 7th and the 10th century, History of a cross-cultural society in the light of papyrology and archaeology.
In September 2009, she joined Leiden University to continue this project under the supervision of Prof. Petra M. Sijpesteijn and to be part of the FOI project. She is focusing on linguistic, cultural and religious crossings in the Egyptian countryside, considering information given in the written accounts of this multi-layered society mixing Coptic, Greek and Arabic components. For this research, she gathered unpublished Arabic papyri from two excavations in Middle Egypt, Bawit (Louvre Museum and French Institute of Archaeology in Cairo) and Antinoupolis (Egypt, Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli, Florence), that she will edit and publish, using those two sites as parallel case studies.
Phone: +31 (0)71 527 2198
E-mail: m.a.l.legendre@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Office and postal address:
Witte Singel 25 / M. de Vrieshof 4, room 015
2311 BZ Leiden, The Netherlands
Jelle Bruning
From March 2009, Jelle Bruning conducts an historical PhD research within the FOI project. His research focusses on Egypt’s Arab capital Fustat and its hinterland. The main foci are Fustat’s relationship with Alexandria and its position vis-à-vis the southern Egyptian countryside, from the Arab conquest up until the Tulunid period. In his research, he combines both medieval literature and documentary (including archaeological) sources.
Phone: +31 (0)71 527 2198
E-mail: j.bruning@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Office and postal address:
Witte Singel 25 / M. de Vrieshof 4, room 015
2311 BZ Leiden, The Netherlands