The Bibliotheca Arabica team presented a panel under the title “Towards a New History of Arabic Literature”, chaired by Dr. Boris Liebrenz (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig).

The presentations included:

  • Dr. Daniel Kinitz & Martin ReckziegelBuilding a Knowledge Graph on Arabic Manuscript Cultures: Challenges and Limits of Automated Optimisation (10:00)

  • Dr. Boris LiebrenzThe Archive of Arabic Literature: Ottoman Constantinople and the Library of Abū Bakr al-Širwānī (d. 1135/1723) (11:00)

  • Dr. Stefanie BrinkmannManuscripts Telling Stories: Commentaries on al-Baghawī’s Maṣābīḥ al-sunna in the Ilkhanid and Post-Ilkhanid Periods (11:30)

  • Dr. des. Nadine LöhrAstrological Manuscripts in the Age of Print: Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos in the 19th and 20th Centuries (12:00)

  • Fatme el BazzalMobile scholars and their transregional entanglements: the endowed collection of Asad Allāh al-Khātūnī al-ʿĀmilī in Astan Quds Library in Mashhad, Iran (12:30)

  • Prof. Dr. Verena KlemmRegional and Transregional Ismaʿili Literary Tradition in Syria (13:00)

  • Find the full programme here