Date of source: Sunday, July 29, 2018
Dear Sir,
When I started my journey from India, I had a few apprehensions, few worries, few concerns and a lot of hopes. Over the time, the apprehensions and worries blurred, concerns vanished although my hopes grew stronger. Hopes to venture into something adventurous, hopes to learn something new...
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2023
Dr. Peter Berend Dirksen studied theology and semitic languages and went on to become an internationally acclaimed scholar of the Old Testament. He worked between 1989 and 1993 with Dr. Arie van der Kooij who later became professor of Biblical Studies at Leiden University. Dr. Van der Kooij writes...
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2023
Cornelis Hulsman has known Dr. Pieter Berend Dirksen (1928-2022) since 1976. Dr. Dirksen noticed that Hulsman was interested in Muslim-Christian dialogue and encouraged him to develop his studies in this direction. Since Dr. Dirksen was an internationally acclaimed scholar of the Hebrew Bible/Old...
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2023
Rev. Dr. Eginhard Meijering offered reflections in the memorial service for Dr. Pieter Berend Dirksen (also known as Piet Dirksen) on January 14, 2023, in the Regenboog (rainbow) Church of Leiden. Rev. Dr. Meijering once was a student of Dr. Dirksen. They first came to know each other in 1959. In...
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This text about Dutch Arabist and scholar of Islam Prof. Dr. Johannes (Hans) G. Jansen (1942-2015) is based on Cornelis Hulsman’s personal experiences with Prof.
Date of source: Thursday, December 29, 2022
Rev. Dr. Jan Slomp has been a great support to the Religious News Service of the Arab World that later was renamed Arab-West Report and in 2022 was renamed Dialogue Across Borders. We are grateful we often could send him draft texts that he could provide very insightful comments to. The last text...
Date of source: Monday, November 7, 2022
Dr. Hans Jansen has long played a role fuelling Islamophobia in the West. I understand his views on Islam have been greatly influenced by the writings and arguments of extremists. It is sad that such extremists have based their views on the Qur’an, Sīra and Sunna.
I am pleased Cornelis Hulsman has...
Date of source: Saturday, October 15, 2022
Imām Fāḍl Sulaymān responded in 2018 to allegations of Dr. Hans Jansen on whether Sūra 2: 256, there shall be no compulsion in religion, had been abrogated. This discussion is essential since the verse’s abrogation is argued for by the Islamist extremists that Hans Jansen studied. This position...
Date of source: Monday, November 7, 2022
In email correspondence. Imām Fāḍl Sulaymān responded to our earlier discussion about the Covenant of ʿUmar, also known as the Capitulations of ʿUmar since I was working on a paper on my correspondence with late Dutch scholar Dr. Hans Jansen (1942-2015). Jansen argued that the code of ‘Umar and...
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Lara Gibson participated in the CAWU-Heliopolis University summer school between June 27 and July 6, 2018, and interned with our center between July 8 and October 4, 2018. Lara studied Arabic language and culture at Durham University, UK.