Qalamos: Connecting Manuscript Traditions
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Account of the DFG Project "Qalamos". #manuscripts #Asia #Africa #catalogs | @stabiberlin.bsky.social | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | Universität Leipzig | Website: www.qalamos.net | Blog: https://od-portal.hypotheses.org
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Book Endowment Practices in the Islamic World from the Maghreb to the Safavids
On 10 January, Kristof D’hulster will give a lecture entitled “Mamluk and Post-Mamluk Endowment Notes in Late-Mamluk Sultanic Manuscripts” as part of a public panel in the lecture series Yazma Eser Kültürü Atölyesi,
On 10 January, Kristof D’hulster will give a lecture entitled “Mamluk and Post-Mamluk Endowment Notes in Late-Mamluk Sultanic Manuscripts” as part of a public panel in the lecture series Yazma Eser Kültürü Atölyesi,
January 7, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Book Endowment Practices in the Islamic World from the Maghreb to the Safavids
On 10 January, Kristof D’hulster will give a lecture entitled “Mamluk and Post-Mamluk Endowment Notes in Late-Mamluk Sultanic Manuscripts” as part of a public panel in the lecture series Yazma Eser Kültürü Atölyesi,
On 10 January, Kristof D’hulster will give a lecture entitled “Mamluk and Post-Mamluk Endowment Notes in Late-Mamluk Sultanic Manuscripts” as part of a public panel in the lecture series Yazma Eser Kültürü Atölyesi,
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In our latest blog post, So Miyagawa @somiyagawa.bsky.social presents the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's pioneering #digitalhumanities work. Through its diverse digitisation projects, the library is expanding access to Egypt’s rich documentary heritage.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/06/d...
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Digital Humanities Initiatives at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina
The following is based on an English translation from the Japanese article “アレクサンドリア図書館におけるデジタル・ヒューマニティーズの取り組み” (“Digital Humanities Initiatives at the Bibliotheca AlexandrinaR…
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January 6, 2026 at 11:54 PM
In our latest blog post, So Miyagawa @somiyagawa.bsky.social presents the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's pioneering #digitalhumanities work. Through its diverse digitisation projects, the library is expanding access to Egypt’s rich documentary heritage.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/06/d...
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/01/06/d...
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Der neue Band der Reihe “Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft” - jetzt erhältlich!
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January 7, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Der neue Band der Reihe “Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft” - jetzt erhältlich!
www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...
#harrassowitz #harrassowitzverlag #Orient_Asien_Afrika
www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...
#harrassowitz #harrassowitzverlag #Orient_Asien_Afrika
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Brent Nongbri on "A Late Example of the Biblical Majuscule":
A Late Example of the Biblical Majuscule
When I think of the Biblical Majuscule, what usually comes to mind is the script of the famous Greek Bible, Codex Sinaiticus, which is usually assigned to the fourth century (though the early fifth…
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December 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Brent Nongbri on "A Late Example of the Biblical Majuscule":
With Simone Seyboldt's absolutely splendid blog article on the depiction and function of angels in Ethiopian manuscript culture, we would like to wish our colleagues and followers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! 👼
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Von Engeln umgeben – Einblicke in die visuelle Angelologie äthiopischer Handschriften
Von Simone Seyboldt Passend zur Vorweihnachtszeit bietet es sich an, den finalen Beitrag des Jahres dem Thema der Engel zu widmen, die auch in der äthiopisch-orthodoxen Glaubenstradition und der bis h...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
With Simone Seyboldt's absolutely splendid blog article on the depiction and function of angels in Ethiopian manuscript culture, we would like to wish our colleagues and followers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! 👼
@stabiberlin.bsky.social
od-portal.hypotheses.org/4581
@stabiberlin.bsky.social
od-portal.hypotheses.org/4581
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*Call For Papers*
10 Research Assistant positions (E13, fixed-term until 2029) at the new LOEWE Center “Dynamics of Religion” — apply by January 9, 2026.
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10 Research Assistant positions (E13, fixed-term until 2029) at the new LOEWE Center “Dynamics of Religion” — apply by January 9, 2026.
dynamiken-des-religioesen.uni-frankfurt.de/ausschreibun...
December 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
*Call For Papers*
10 Research Assistant positions (E13, fixed-term until 2029) at the new LOEWE Center “Dynamics of Religion” — apply by January 9, 2026.
dynamiken-des-religioesen.uni-frankfurt.de/ausschreibun...
10 Research Assistant positions (E13, fixed-term until 2029) at the new LOEWE Center “Dynamics of Religion” — apply by January 9, 2026.
dynamiken-des-religioesen.uni-frankfurt.de/ausschreibun...
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*Call For Papers*
15 doctoral research assistant positions (E13, 65%, until 2029) at LOEWE Center “Dynamics of Religion” — apply by Jan 9, 2026.
dynamiken-des-religioesen.uni-frankfurt.de/ausschreibun...
15 doctoral research assistant positions (E13, 65%, until 2029) at LOEWE Center “Dynamics of Religion” — apply by Jan 9, 2026.
dynamiken-des-religioesen.uni-frankfurt.de/ausschreibun...
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
*Call For Papers*
15 doctoral research assistant positions (E13, 65%, until 2029) at LOEWE Center “Dynamics of Religion” — apply by Jan 9, 2026.
dynamiken-des-religioesen.uni-frankfurt.de/ausschreibun...
15 doctoral research assistant positions (E13, 65%, until 2029) at LOEWE Center “Dynamics of Religion” — apply by Jan 9, 2026.
dynamiken-des-religioesen.uni-frankfurt.de/ausschreibun...
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Lecture Series "Beyond the Codex" in Vienna
Last week, Philip Bockholt contributed to the lecture series "Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures" at the University of Vienna, organised by Yavuz Köse, Gisela Procháska-Eisl, and Jeanine Dağyeli,
Last week, Philip Bockholt contributed to the lecture series "Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures" at the University of Vienna, organised by Yavuz Köse, Gisela Procháska-Eisl, and Jeanine Dağyeli,
December 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Lecture Series "Beyond the Codex" in Vienna
Last week, Philip Bockholt contributed to the lecture series "Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures" at the University of Vienna, organised by Yavuz Köse, Gisela Procháska-Eisl, and Jeanine Dağyeli,
Last week, Philip Bockholt contributed to the lecture series "Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures" at the University of Vienna, organised by Yavuz Köse, Gisela Procháska-Eisl, and Jeanine Dağyeli,
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After a brief detour to the Lord's Prayer in a bilingual manuscript, our Advent calendar continues today with the Christmas Gospel: The angel appears to the shepherds.
10 Dec: Lk 2:9
واذا ملاك الرب قد وقف بهم وتسبحه الرب اضت عليهم وفزعوا فزع عظيم
wa-ʔiḏā malʔak ar-rabb qad waqafa bihim wa-tasbiḥat ar-rabb ʔaḍat ʕalayhim wa-faziʕū fazaʕ ʕaẓīm
"and suddenly the angel of the Lord stood before them and the glory of the Lord shone on them and they felt a great fear"
واذا ملاك الرب قد وقف بهم وتسبحه الرب اضت عليهم وفزعوا فزع عظيم
wa-ʔiḏā malʔak ar-rabb qad waqafa bihim wa-tasbiḥat ar-rabb ʔaḍat ʕalayhim wa-faziʕū fazaʕ ʕaẓīm
"and suddenly the angel of the Lord stood before them and the glory of the Lord shone on them and they felt a great fear"
December 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
After a brief detour to the Lord's Prayer in a bilingual manuscript, our Advent calendar continues today with the Christmas Gospel: The angel appears to the shepherds.
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Gemeinsam schreiben, lernen, forschen: Unser kostenfreies Workshop-Programm bietet euch ein breites Themenspektrum an Angeboten - vom Basiswissen zur Nutzung der #StabiBerlin bis zu fachspezifischen Recherchetools. Reinschauen lohnt sich, mitmachen noch viel mehr 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termine/
TERMINE - SBB aktuell
Ausstellungen und Veranstaltungen der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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December 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Gemeinsam schreiben, lernen, forschen: Unser kostenfreies Workshop-Programm bietet euch ein breites Themenspektrum an Angeboten - vom Basiswissen zur Nutzung der #StabiBerlin bis zu fachspezifischen Recherchetools. Reinschauen lohnt sich, mitmachen noch viel mehr 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termine/
🎅 A Christmas present from #Qalamos: After a search for manuscript metadata, the search results can now also be filtered by year. The two search fields below the "additional filters" allow a search from/to the given years.
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🎅 A Christmas present from #Qalamos: After a search for manuscript metadata, the search results can now also be filtered by year. The two search fields below the "additional filters" allow a search from/to the given years.
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No need to stress about picking the best seat at the Christmas table, for my latest publication comes to the rescue: "The Art of Picking the Best Seat: From Seating Positions at a Muslim Majlis to Hindu vāstu śāstra," International Journal of Divination & Prognostication 6 (2025): 191-254.
December 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
No need to stress about picking the best seat at the Christmas table, for my latest publication comes to the rescue: "The Art of Picking the Best Seat: From Seating Positions at a Muslim Majlis to Hindu vāstu śāstra," International Journal of Divination & Prognostication 6 (2025): 191-254.
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#Online Ressource | Natalia Romik’s: #Architecture of #Memory: Exploring (Post-) Jewish Spaces in Eastern Europe now available in Open Access| UCL Press
Download: uclpress.co.uk/book/archite...
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Architecture of Memory
Architecture of Memory explores architectural disappearance, urban remembrance and functional change amid social upheaval. Using archival, architectural and artistic methods, Natalia Romik investigate...
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December 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
#Online Ressource | Natalia Romik’s: #Architecture of #Memory: Exploring (Post-) Jewish Spaces in Eastern Europe now available in Open Access| UCL Press
Download: uclpress.co.uk/book/archite...
Download: uclpress.co.uk/book/archite...
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Curious about the medieval Islamicate world?
Join the Invisible East team, and guests, for a Saturday course at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
For more information, and to book, visit bit.ly/Saturdaycourse
#medievalsky #skystorians #courses
Join the Invisible East team, and guests, for a Saturday course at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
For more information, and to book, visit bit.ly/Saturdaycourse
#medievalsky #skystorians #courses
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Curious about the medieval Islamicate world?
Join the Invisible East team, and guests, for a Saturday course at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
For more information, and to book, visit bit.ly/Saturdaycourse
#medievalsky #skystorians #courses
Join the Invisible East team, and guests, for a Saturday course at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
For more information, and to book, visit bit.ly/Saturdaycourse
#medievalsky #skystorians #courses
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Arab astronomers in the early Islamic Golden Age were pioneers of science and innovation. They developed technologies for navigation, timekeeping and the study of the cosmos.
Discover the texts that shaped the training of these scholars: www.qdl.qa/en
Discover the texts that shaped the training of these scholars: www.qdl.qa/en
December 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Arab astronomers in the early Islamic Golden Age were pioneers of science and innovation. They developed technologies for navigation, timekeeping and the study of the cosmos.
Discover the texts that shaped the training of these scholars: www.qdl.qa/en
Discover the texts that shaped the training of these scholars: www.qdl.qa/en
🤩🎅Leipzig University has created a beautiful electronic Advent calendar, a real "Treasure Trove", which highlights interesting areas. Under today's date, you will find a link to #Qalamos with beautiful miniatures, like this one from the famous Jahangir Album: www.uni-leipzig.de/universitaet...
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🤩🎅Leipzig University has created a beautiful electronic Advent calendar, a real "Treasure Trove", which highlights interesting areas. Under today's date, you will find a link to #Qalamos with beautiful miniatures, like this one from the famous Jahangir Album: www.uni-leipzig.de/universitaet...
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As a little treat for you, here's an #ArabicBible Advent calendar 🧵. Every day I'll post a verse from the Christmas story from one of the oldest Arabic Gospel lectionaries, Sinai ar. 72, dated 897 CE (and a few other texts in between). [2nd attempt, I won't be offended if you point out my nonsense.]
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
As a little treat for you, here's an #ArabicBible Advent calendar 🧵. Every day I'll post a verse from the Christmas story from one of the oldest Arabic Gospel lectionaries, Sinai ar. 72, dated 897 CE (and a few other texts in between). [2nd attempt, I won't be offended if you point out my nonsense.]
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"Black Knights compellingly re-frames Arabic epic within a broader global history of race, thus prompting medievalists [...] to reconsider how racial formations, heroic imaginaries, and epic narrative structures intersect across time and space."
Sah-weet.
www.middleeastmedievalists.com/book-prize/
Sah-weet.
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MEM Book Prize
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December 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"Black Knights compellingly re-frames Arabic epic within a broader global history of race, thus prompting medievalists [...] to reconsider how racial formations, heroic imaginaries, and epic narrative structures intersect across time and space."
Sah-weet.
www.middleeastmedievalists.com/book-prize/
Sah-weet.
www.middleeastmedievalists.com/book-prize/
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#Chancen | Full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Judaic Studies at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#professor #judaicstudies #ny
Deadline for applications: January 11, 2026
#professor #judaicstudies #ny
Deadline for applications: January 11, 2026
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#Chancen | Full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Judaic Studies at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#professor #judaicstudies #ny
Deadline for applications: January 11, 2026
#professor #judaicstudies #ny
Deadline for applications: January 11, 2026
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Year-end #CrossAsia Talk! On Dec 4 at 6 pm, Cooley, Wu & Chen discuss "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese & Spanish Worlds in Dialogue". How did China & the Spanish Empire become comparable knowledge powers desipte thousends of miles apart? sbb.berlin/39gk5 @stabiberlin.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Year-end #CrossAsia Talk! On Dec 4 at 6 pm, Cooley, Wu & Chen discuss "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese & Spanish Worlds in Dialogue". How did China & the Spanish Empire become comparable knowledge powers desipte thousends of miles apart? sbb.berlin/39gk5 @stabiberlin.bsky.social
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Wir suchen Nutzendenvertretung für unser Fachbeiratstreffen am 23.01.2026 in Berlin @stabiberlin.bsky.social. Interesse, unsere strategische Entwicklung mitzugestalten? Bewerbung bis 15.12. möglich. Reisekosten werden übernommen. Alle Infos hier: sbb.berlin/k1dfl Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch.
December 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Wir suchen Nutzendenvertretung für unser Fachbeiratstreffen am 23.01.2026 in Berlin @stabiberlin.bsky.social. Interesse, unsere strategische Entwicklung mitzugestalten? Bewerbung bis 15.12. möglich. Reisekosten werden übernommen. Alle Infos hier: sbb.berlin/k1dfl Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch.
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Some more information about the new #BibliaArabica project from @goetheuni.bsky.social, which will partner with @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, the project will be based @badw.de and @adwmainz.bsky.social.
December 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Some more information about the new #BibliaArabica project from @goetheuni.bsky.social, which will partner with @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, the project will be based @badw.de and @adwmainz.bsky.social.
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#Event | Call for papers for the upcoming conference “Underprivileged Bodies: Marginality and Minority in Europe, 1850–1939”, on July 6–8, 2026, at the Department of Jewish Studies, Wrocław University | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
Deadline for submissions: January, 15, 2026
Deadline for submissions: January, 15, 2026
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#Event | Call for papers for the upcoming conference “Underprivileged Bodies: Marginality and Minority in Europe, 1850–1939”, on July 6–8, 2026, at the Department of Jewish Studies, Wrocław University | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
Deadline for submissions: January, 15, 2026
Deadline for submissions: January, 15, 2026
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Małgorzata Grzelec and Laura Gallardo Domínguez have just returned from their journey right into the heart of Mexico’s material writing culture, documenting local papermaking and dye production traditions. In our blog, they report on their trip:
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uhh.de/csmc-mexico
December 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Małgorzata Grzelec and Laura Gallardo Domínguez have just returned from their journey right into the heart of Mexico’s material writing culture, documenting local papermaking and dye production traditions. In our blog, they report on their trip:
uhh.de/csmc-mexico
uhh.de/csmc-mexico