Within the panel “Building and Preserving Libraries in Ottoman Lands and the Horn of Africa – An Interdisciplinary Approach”, Rawda El Hajji (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig) presented her paper “The Corpus of Süleyman Efendi and its Multilayered Manuscripts” (16:30).
The panel also included the following presentations:
Joud Nassan Agha (Universität Hamburg, Germany) – A Court Session in Context: Understanding Judicial Proceedings and their Relation to Library Preservation in Ottoman Damascus (16:00)
Nimet İpek (Sabancı University, Turkey) – Confiscating Books in the First Half of the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire under the Reign of Mahmud I (17:00)
Michael Hensley (Universität Hamburg, Germany) – Owning and Preserving Libraries in Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea (17:30)
Find the full programme here