CFP: Workshop together with NoMansLand (ÖAW) The Mongols' Baghdad

The main concern of the workshop is to explore the production, dissemination and consumption of knowledge in Baghdad from the perspective of manuscript studies. We aim to investigate what the production and circulation of manuscripts can tell us about the cultural life of Baghdad and its environs before, during and after the Mongol conquest. Papers should consider either individual manuscripts or collections of codices that shed light on different aspects of continuity and change in the intellectual life of the region. The workshop is organized jointly by the projects

• Agents: authors, copyists, and patrons.
• Localities: places of production, distribution, and consumption.
• Types of knowledge: religious, secular, or scientific.
• Networks: the interaction of Baghdad with other centres of knowledge.
• Characteristics of specific literary genres and their manuscripts.