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OpenITI's Jonathan Parkes Allen 🌹 sat down with Oreen Yousuf today to discuss Oreen's ongoing project- which uses eScriptorium for corpus production- with Ajami manuscripts from across Africa. He and his team have been doing some super cool stuff, have a look: youtube.com/watch?v=CSDm-w…

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Link to an excellent article by CM Naim sb. on Tirath Ram Firozepuri (1885-1954), an extraordinary Urdu translator of popular fiction. He translated numerous English thrillers & romances (like GWM Reynolds & Alexander Dumas, pics below): franpritchett.com/00litlinks/nai…

#NewRelease #OpenAccess #IslamicManuscripts #ManuscriptsCollection #Medicine #Pharmacology #Occult The Collection of the Islamic Manuscripts on Medicine and Magic at L’Orientale ed. Francesca Bellino. UniorPress 2025 fedoabooks.unina.it/index.php/fedo… PDF 🔽 fedoabooks.unina.it/index.php/fedo…

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The work goes on. I already post about these Shāhnāma projects as I make progress on them; a talk is a good way to force myself to keep moving forward.

How did oral and written traditions influence the transmission of sacred texts in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam? A new #OpenAccess volume uncovers the complex interplay between spoken word and manuscript culture in the medieval Middle East: uhh.de/csmc-intersame

Definitely one of the coolest looking Arabic manuscripts I've come across so far- a 1540 Ottoman manuscript containing three grammatical works, each with insanely artistically shaped marginal commentary written using ghubār ("dust") script (BnF Arabe 4166):

#NewPublication Writing Timbuktu: The Book in West African History Shamil Jeppie. Princeton Univ Pr 2025 #OpenAccess prelims & Introduction: books and rebels in the desert PDF 🎯 pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/97… press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

This document features in the latest launch on our digital corpus - as well as in November's Document of the Month, 'A History of Two Iranian Festivals: Nawrūz and Sada' by Simone Cristoforetti: bit.ly/NawruzandSada. #digitalhumanities #medievalsky #BamiyanPapers #NewPersian

Fabrica linguae Arabicae, a 1639 Arabic-Italian-Latin dictionary by Dominicus Germanus de Silesia, notable for the woodcut calligraphy of its title page and its tree of Arabic verb forms. This copy was owned by the German orientalist Siegmund Fraenkel (1855-1909)

📢 Join the Qurʾānic Manuscripts Initiative (QMI) for an online webinar: “Islamic Manuscript Collections in Daghestan (16th–19th Centuries)” with Dr. Shamil Shikhaliev (Austrian Academy of Sciences) on 24 November 2025 at 5 PM CET. Registration: [email protected]

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NEXT WEEK Hybrid Lecture 26.11 5pm CET Dr. Elvira Wakelnig (University of Vienna): "A Thousand and One Arabic Medical Manuscripts" @FWF Nomads’ Manuscripts Landscape Young Academy OeAW ifi_oeaw Austrian Academy of Sciences Location: Campus of the Uni. Vienna Auditorium (Hof 4.1) online: univienna.zoom.us/j/65295995613?…

#NewPublication Islamic China: An Asian History Rian Thum. Harvard Univ Pr 2025 #OpenAccess Front matter & Introduction: A Bird’s- Eye View PDF 🎯 hup.harvard.edu/file/feeds/PDF… hup.harvard.edu/books/97806749…