The Islamic Manuscript Association

The Codicology and Palaeography of Early Qur'an Manuscripts

In the Milstein Room, Cambridge University Library

10.00–10.15

Welcome and Introduction

Yasmin Faghihi
Head of Near and Middle Eastern Department
Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

R. B. Davidson MacLaren
Executive Director
The Islamic Manuscript Association, Cambridge, UK

Panel 1: Palaeography

Chaired by Prof. James Montgomery

Sir Thomas Adam's Professor of Arabic, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

10.15–10.45	About a Folio Mushaf from Umayyad Times
	François Déroche Chair of History of the Qur’an: Text and Transmission Collège de France, Paris, France
10.45–11.15	Some Observations about Qur'anic Manuscripts in C.1
	Eléonore Cellard PhD Candidate Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales/ École pratique des hautes etudes, Paris, France
11.15–11.45	Maghribi Round Scripts and the Qur'an
	Umberto Bongianino D.Phil. Candidate University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

11.45–12.15

Question and Answer Session

12.15–13.15

Lunch

Panel 2: Materials and Techniques Used in Making Islamic Manuscripts

Chaired by Mr Davidson MacLaren

Executive Director, The Islamic Manuscript Association, Cambridge, UK

13.15–13.45	Books and Beasts: A New Approach to Our Parchment Heritage
	Caroline Checkley-Scott Collection Care Manager and Co-manager of the Centre of Heritage Imaging and Collection Care The University of Manchester Library, Manchester, UK Sarah Fiddyment British Academy Posdoctoral Fellow in BioArCh Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK
13.45–14.15	The Materials and Techniques Used in Making the Blue Qur'an: A Technical and Physical Examination
	Cheryl Porter Conservator in Private Practice and Director of the Montefiascone Library Conservation Project London, UK and Montefiascone, Italy
14.15–14.45	The Reconstruction of Early Qur'anic Bookbindings
	Marco di Bella Conservator in Private Practice and Tutor in Conservation at the University of Palermo Palermo, Italy

14.45–15.15

Question and Answer Session

15.15–15.30

Refreshments

Panel 3: Islamic Manuscript Studies and New Technologies

Chaired by Charles Melville
President of The Islamic Manuscript Association and Professor of Persian History
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

15.30–16.00	The Qur'an in Digital Humanities
	Yasmin Faghihi Head of Near and Middle Eastern Department Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK
16.00–16.30	The Digital Mushaf Project
	Alasdair Watson Bahari Curator of Persian Collections Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Keith Small Manuscript Consultant Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
16.30–17.00	Interpreting the Physicality of Destroyed Artefacts: A Few (Incomplete) Traces from MS CUL Or.1287
	Alba Fedeli Academic Assistant Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy

17.00–17.30

Question and Answer Session

17.30–17.40

Closing

Charles Melville
President of The Islamic Manuscript Association and
Professor of Persian History
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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