Activities

10 – 11 September 2018: Workshop "Text-as-Graph" of the DHd working group on graph technologies

Contributions on graph schema integration and on text data and metadata modeling by Thomas Efer

8 September 2018: Symposium on Ottoman-Era Manuscript Libraries, Istanbul

Symposium “New Research on Ottoman-Era Manuscript Libraries”, Orient-Institute Istanbul,organised by Stefanie Brinkmann and Boris Liebrenz in cooperation with the Orient-Institute Istanbul and The Islamic Manuscript Association (Cambridge, UK).
Paper presented by Boris Liebrenz: “Exploring the roots of Ottoman libraries: A case study of the Fazil Ahmet Pasha Manuscripts and the Bibliotheca Arabica Project”

A Medieval Muslim Scholar’s Legacy. Ibn Ṭāwūs and the Afterlife of his Library

“A Medieval Muslim Scholar’s Legacy. Ibn Ṭāwūs and the Afterlife of His Library”, in: Boris Liebrenz (ed.): “The History of Books and Collections through Manuscript Notes”, (Leiden: Brill, 2018), S. 218-224.

This article presents an endowment note as the only surviving material trace from thefamous library of the Shiʿite scholar ʿAlī b. Mūsā Ibn Ṭāwūs (589/1193–664/1266). Thisnote ofers new insights into the books he possessed and adds clarity about the legalframework under which it was passed on to Ibn Ṭāwūs’ descendants. The article alsotraces the further history of this manuscript through Damascus to Istanbul and dis-cusses strategies for tracking these notes, which were often willfully destroyed.

16 August 2018: Work Session on Marginal Commentaries, Leipzig

One-day Work Session on Marginal Commentaries & Glosses in Manuscripts, organised by Stefanie Brinkmann, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Leipzig
Participants: Paul Babinski (Princeton University), Stefanie Brinkmann (SAW Leipzig), Boris Liebrenz (SAW Leipzig), Christian Mauder (University of Leipzig, Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies: Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities), Darya Ogorodnikova (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg University (Islamic Manuscripts with a Wide Spaced Layout as Mediators of Teaching Practices in West Africa), Walid Saleh (University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion & Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations), Ronny Vollandt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Ali Zaherinezhad (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg University (The Leipzig Manuscript B. or. 227: Paratexts as witnesses of Islamic Ḥadīṯ scholarship)

9 August 2018: "Fachtag Digital Humanities in Thüringen"

Project Presentation by Thomas Efer at the Thuringian Digital Humanities Day in Gotha, organized by the research group "Netzwerk für digitale Geisteswissenschaften und Citizen Science" of the University of Erfurt, together with the Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association and the DHnet Jena

Programme

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10 – 11 September 2018: Workshop "Text-as-Graph" of the DHd working group on graph technologies

8 September 2018: Symposium on Ottoman-Era Manuscript Libraries, Istanbul

A Medieval Muslim Scholar’s Legacy. Ibn Ṭāwūs and the Afterlife of his Library

16 August 2018: Work Session on Marginal Commentaries, Leipzig

9 August 2018: "Fachtag Digital Humanities in Thüringen"

18 – 20 July 2018: "Modeling Travels in History: an ORBIS-esque Hackathon"

Kinitz, OCR, Vortrag HH 2024

ML-basierte Texterkennung arabographischer Handschriftenkataloge (Slides)