4 August 2026: Boris Liebrenz, “Seals in Arabic Manuscripts: Their History and Use”
August 3, 2026
3 August 2026: Boris Liebrenz, “Bibliotheca Arabica: Towards a New History of Arabic Literature”
June 18, 2026
18 June 2026: Stefanie Brinkmann, “Arabic-Islamic Commentary Manuscripts at the Crossroads of Intellectual Discourse and Private Voice”
May 18, 2026
18 May 2026: Boris Liebrenz, “Book Archaeology—Sources and Methods to Make Manuscripts Talk”
April 14, 2026
14 April 2026: Boris Liebrenz, “Von Büchern und Menschen – Arabische Handschriften als sozialgeschichtliche Quelle”
November 12, 2025
12 November 2025: Boris Liebrenz, “From Constantinople into the World: The Mobility of Libraries and Their Owners Through the Example of Abū Bakr al-Širwānī (d. 1135/1723)”
November 7, 2025
7 November 2025: Boris Liebrenz, “Bibliophilia in 18th-century Damascus: The Book Collection of ʿAbdallāh b. Zayn al-Dīn al-Buṣrawī”
November 6 – 8, 2025
6 – 8 November 2025: Conference “Libraries of the Ottoman World”, Dublin
October 24, 2025 – March 1, 2026
24 October 2025 – 1 March 2026: Stefanie Brinkmann, collaborating on the exhibition “Manuscripts & Mind: How we read and respond to the written word” at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
October 8, 2025
October 8 2025: Stefanie Brinkmann and Asma Hilali, “Islamic Manuscripts: Scribes and Readers”
September 25, 2025
25 September 2025: Stefanie Brinkmann, “Between Mamluk Egypt, Mongol Azerbayjan and Anatolia: Traces of a Hadith Commentator and his Editorial Efforts”
September 16, 2025
16 September 2025: Daniel Kinitz, “Arabographische Texterkennung von Referenzwerken – Herausforderungen beim Einsatz Deep-Learning-basierter Anwendungen”
September 12, 2025 – August 12, 2026
12 September 2025: Bibliotheca Arabica Panel, “Towards a New History of Arabic Literature”
September 11, 2025
11 September 2025: Rawda El Hajji, “The Corpus of Süleyman Efendi and its Multilayered Manuscripts”
September 11, 2025
11 September 2025: Fatme el Bazzal, “An ʻĀmilī scholar at work: Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Khātūn in the Deccan India”
September 9, 2025
9 September 2025: Boris Liebrenz, “The Library of the Amīr al-Muʾminīn in 17th-century Yemen: Evidence from an Arabic Letter”
July 10, 2025
10 July 2025: Rawda El Hajji, “Reconstructing Buda Manuscripts: The Case of Süleyman Efendi's Multilayered Corpus”
July 9, 2025
9 July 2025: Boris Liebrenz, “Crossing Borders with Books: The Mobility of Libraries and Their Owners Through the Example of Abū Bakr al-Širwānī (d. 1135/1723)”
July 8, 2025
8 July 2025: Daniel Kinitz, “Data-driven Intellectual History? Building a Research Platform for Arabic Manuscript Cultures”
June 17, 2025
17 June 2025: Avihai Shivtiel, “Jews and Muslims Relations as reflected in the Cairo Genizah Documents”
May 16, 2025
16 May 2025: Boris Liebrenz, “The Manṭiq al-waḥš and the Early Arabic Illustrated Book”
April 28, 2025
28 April 2025: Verena Klemm & Daniel Kinitz, Project Presentation, Nizwa (Oman)
February 10, 2025
10 – 11 February 2025: Verena Klemm, “Two IsmāʿīIī notebooks from Gujarat (17th and 19th century) – Literary networks between Cairo, Yemen and India”
January 17, 2025
17 January 2025: Rawda El Hajji, “The Corpus of Süleyman Efendi and Its Multilayered Manuscripts”
Call for Papers: International Conference: Libraries of the Ottoman World
