Staff Middle Eastern Studies (research) Turaj Atabaki Emeritus Professor by special appointment of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia Gabrielle van den Berg Professor Cultural History of Iran and Central Asia Petra de Bruijn University Lecturer Turkish Studies Léon Buskens Director NIMAR Nico Kaptein Professor Emeritus Islam in South East Asia Tsolin Nalbantian Associate professor Petra Sijpesteijn Professor of Arabic Hans Theunissen University Lecturer Turkish Studies/Islamic Art and Material Culture