It gives us great pleasure to announce the return of the Autumn Lecture Series in Shiʿi Studies starting in October 2019 organised by the Leiden University Shiʿi Studies Initiative (LUSSI). The autumn lecture series theme for this year is: “The Qurʾan and its Shiʿi Interpretations”.
Perhaps the most significant result of these intertwined processes was the emergence of distinct publics and public spaces in the midst of early modern European urban life. These publics and public spaces were the result of complex interactions between political authorities and communities in the context of the emergent market economies and empire- and state-building projects.
