Publications

Verena Klemm: “majmūʿa”

Daniel Kinitz: Deep Learning-Based OCR of Printed Arabographic Resources. Challenges and Best Practices in a Production Environment

Boris Liebrenz: Review of Laura Hinrichsen, The Lost Libraries of Tunis

Daniel Kinitz: Arabographische Texterkennung von Referenzwerken

Boris Liebrenz: Review of Majid Daneshgar, Reconstructing Erpenius’ Library

Boris Liebrenz: Zoomorphic Seals in Islamic Manuscripts

Stefanie Brinkmann (ed.): Marginal Matters: Explorations into Commenting and Glossing Techniques in Arabic Manuscript Cultures

Verena Klemm: “At the High End of Learning: Note-Taking and Commentary Practices of a Nineteenth-Century Ismaili Scholar in India”

Stefanie Brinkmann: “Traces of Eager Studies”

Stefanie Brinkmann: “Struggling with the Margin: Studying Marginal Commentaries in a Hadith Collection: Al-Baghawī’s Maṣābīḥ al-sunna”

Stefanie Brinkmann: “Multilingualism in Ottoman Manuscripts” (revised reprint)

Stefanie Brinkmann: “Introduction: Mapping the Field”

Boris Liebrenz: “Putting Margins in Context: Some Practical Considerations”

Boris Liebrenz: “Partisan Readers: Fighting over the Interpretation of History in the Margins of MS BnF, Arabe 1825”

Boris Liebrenz and Moya Carey: New Blog “Reading the History of the Chester Beatty Fihrist”

Reading the History of the Chester Beatty Fihrist — Arabic Literature’s Foundational Book-List

Verena Klemm: “A Library in One Volume – The Notebook of the Nineteenth-Century Ismāʿīlī Scholar Sayyidī Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Hamdānī from Surat”

Boris Liebrenz: “The Arabic Aristotle in Byzantine Constantinople”

Stefanie Brinkmann: “Hadith Scholarship in Mongol Baghdad: al-Qazwīnī’s transmission of al-Baghawī’s Maṣābīḥ al-sunna”

Verena Klemm: “Effiziente Netzwerke – Hintergründe eines Handschriftenerwerbs”

Boris Liebrenz: “From Whom and for Whom? The Audience and Provenance of al-Jazzār’s Manuscripts”

Boris Liebrenz: “The Endowment Seals”

Boris Liebrenz: “The Stars in Leiden: Listening to the Stories of Islamic Manuscripts”

Boris Liebrenz: Review of Ahmed El Shamsy, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics

Verena Klemm: A Library in One Volume: The Notebook of the Nineteenth-Century Ismāʿīlī Scholar Sayyidī Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Hamdānī from Surat

Verena Klemm: The Ismaʿili Manuscripts in University Library Tübingen: An Inquiry into Provenance

Verena Klemm: Notes About Notes: A 19th Century Ismaʿili Personal Manuscript From India

Stefanie Brinkmann: Contribution to “Exit Allowed: Iranian Artists meet Iranian Manuscripts”

Boris Liebrenz: “The Sciences in Two Private Libraries From Ottoman Syria”

Nadine Löhr: Off the Record - On Studying Lost Arabic Books and their Networks

Daniel Kinitz and Thomas Efer: Towards a Dynamic Knowledge Graph of a Non-Western Book Tradition

Introduction: How can we generate and integrate data on a pre-modern, Arabic book tradition in such a way that research can gain new insights? Within the long-term project “Bibliotheca Arabica” [Brinkmann/Löhr 2021], we are creating an agile knowledge graph integrating a wide range of data on (handwritten) Arabic manuscripts and their historical context. Our aim is to create a digital research environment to investigate the production, transmission and reception of Arabic manuscripts and their social environment as clusters of linked entities: scholars linked to works with students as readers, reproduced by scribes in manuscripts, linked by ownership notes and combined to historical libraries, etc.