2012 Introduction to Islamic Codicology,
6-13 February 2012, Cairo, Egypt
Registration Full, Waiting List Opened
Persons wishing to attend the course may contact the Association at
azharcourse@islamicmanuscript.org to place their names on the waiting list.
For more information on the Islamic Manuscript Association's Arabic-language introductory course on Islamic codicology taught by Dr Ayman Fu'ad Sayyid,
director of the Textual Editing Center of al-Azhar University and board member emeritus of the Association,
and organised in cooperation with the Textual Editing Center of al-Azhar University, the National Library of Egypt,
the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge,
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2012 Intensive Introduction to Islamic Codicology, UK
3-7 September 2012, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Advanced Registration List Full, Waiting List Opened
Persons wishing to attend the course may contact the Association's office administrators at
admin@islamicmanuscript.org to place their names on the waiting list.
For more information about the Islamic Manuscript Association's annual Intensive Introduction to Islamic Codicology course taught
by Prof. François Déroche, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris and author of the book
Islamic Codicology: An Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Script,
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A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals
Dr Anna Contadini's new book, A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals
(the Kitāb Na‘t al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū‘ Tradition, is now available for purchase from Brill Academic Publishers.
The Islamic Manuscript Association is pleased to have help make publication of this book possible through its grant scheme.
For more information about A World of Beasts, please visit Brill's website.
The Eighth Islamic Manuscript Conference
The Science of Manuscripts; Manuscripts of Science
9-11 July 2012, Queens' College, University of Cambridge
Islamic Seals Database Launched
The Chester Beatty Library's Islamic Manuscript Association-funded Islamic Seals Database is an online, interactive database of seal impressions found in Islamic manuscripts.
The site can be viewed at www.cbl.ie/islamicseals or through the link on the Islamic Collections page of the Library’s website (www.cbl.ie).
Visitors to the site are invited to participate in deciphering the seals, identifying the individuals or institutions named, and providing information such as other sources of seals that name the same individual or institution.
The database currently contains 150 seal impressions found mainly in the manuscripts of the Chester Beatty Library’s Arabic Collection but also in manuscripts from its Persian, Turkish, and Indian Collections. New images will continually be added to the site until all seals in the Library’s Islamic manuscripts are included. The Library is happy to include seals from other collections if proper permission to do so and photographs are provided.
VACANCIES: Various Disciplines
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