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 Reckziegel – Building a Knowledge Graph on Arabic Manuscript Cultures: Challenges and Limits of Automated Optimisation (10:00)
Dr. Boris Liebrenz – The Archive of Arabic Literature: Ottoman Constantinople and the Library of Abū Bakr al-Širwānī (d. 1135/1723) (11:00)
Dr. Stefanie Brinkmann – Manuscripts Telling Stories: Commentaries on al-Baghawī’s Maṣābīḥ al-sunna in the Ilkhanid and Post-Ilkhanid Periods (11:30)
Dr. des. Nadine Löhr – Astrological Manuscripts in the Age of Print: Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos in the 19th and 20th Centuries (12:00)
Fatme el Bazzal – Mobile 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 Klemm – Regional and Transregional Ismaʿili Literary Tradition in Syria (13:00)
Find the full programme here