Michiel Leezenberg

Michiel Leezenberg teaches in the departments of Philosophy and Ancient Studies of the University of Amsterdam. Over the years, he has published widely on the history, culture and politics of the Kurds. He has held visiting positions in, among others, the departments of Kurdish and Persian at INALCO/Sorbonne (Paris) and the department of Iranian Studies at the Jagiellonian University (Cracow). Among his publications in book form are Glimpses of Agony: The Kurds as Subaltern Actors in Islamic and Middle Eastern History (SIAS Lectures no. 13, Sophia University, Japan), History and Philosophy of the Humanities: An Introduction (with Gerard de Vries), and an award-winning history of Islamic philosophy (in Dutch).