The Sixth Islamic Manuscript Conference
Central Asian Islamic Manuscripts & Manuscript Collections
8-10 July 2010, Queens' College, University of Cambridge
Conference Programme
Saturday 10th July
| 7.45 – 8.45 | Breakfast in Cripps Dining Hall |
DIGITISATION DEMONSTRATION
| 9.30 – 11.00 | Introduction to Best Practice in Object-Centred Digitisation in Seminar Room dd47 |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Refreshments in the Conservatory |
CATALOGUING PANEL—CHAIRED BY MR DAVID HIRSCH
| 11.30 – 12.00 |
DR DJAMEL DILMI Assistant Professor, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia Sino-Arabic Script and Illumination in Qur’ans in the Far Eastern Manuscript Collection of Xi’an Great Mosque, China |
| 12.00 – 12.30 |
DR SALEH AL ZUHAIMI Librarian, Omani Studies Centre, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman DR SAIF AL JABRI Director, Information Center, College of Commerce and Economics, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Omani Manuscripts in Central Asian Libraries and Institutions |
| 12.30 – 13.45 | Lunch in Cripps Dining Hall |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Photo |
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING PANEL II—CHAIRED BY DR MUHAMMAD ISA WALEY
| 14.30 – 15.00 |
DR LAURA PARODI Independent Scholar of Islamic Art History, Italy At the Crossroads of Asia: The Kabul Court Atelier Under Humayun – Perspectives from Codicology |
| 15.00 – 15.30 |
DR ANDRZEJ DROZD Chair of Asian Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland The Complexity of Traditions in the Manuscripts of Polish-Lithuanian Tatars |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Refreshments in the Conservatory |
| 16.00 – 16.30 |
PROF. HU LONG Professor, Academy of Minorities’ Ancient Books and Records of Gansu Province, China A Special Manifestation of Islamic Manuscripts in China: Xiaojing Scripts —Case Study of a Chinese Islamic Manuscript Entitled Aboveboard and Quite Open |
| 16.30 – 17.00 |
DR FİKRET TURAN Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK Chaghatay Turkish-Persian Lexicons in Manuscripts in British Libraries |
CLOSING REMARKS
| 17.00 – 17.30 |
PROF. CHARLES MELVILLE President, The Islamic Manuscript Association and Professor of Persian History, University of Cambridge, uk MR DAVIDSON MACLAREN Executive Director, The Islamic Manuscript Association and Director, Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation and Dar al-Kutub Manuscript Project, Egypt |
| 19.00 – 20.15 | Dinner in the Old Hall |