TRANSLAPT

On 22 July, the TRANSLAPT team, alongside the institute's secretary Vildan Yaşar and student assistants Aischa Mahmoud and Amina Catic, celebrated the end of the summer term of 2025. Wishing everyone a period of respite and productive endeavours from Münster!

One of the highlights for him was the chance to connect with the PI of SCORE, fellow researcher Hannah-Lena Hagemann from Hamburg. Overall, the meeting provided a valuable platform for exchanging ideas and discussing ongoing research projects with people from across the country!

Emmy Noether-Treffen 2025

The 2025 Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leaders meeting took place in Potsdam from July 10 to 12. Philip Bockholt attended the event, which included informative workshops, interesting lectures, and useful office hours with DFG officials. www.dfg.de/de/foerderun...

Next, all attended the lecture by Colinda Lindermann (Ghent University) dealing with Arabic Lexicography in the post-formative period – a topic, in which Ottoman lexicographers also came to play an important role.

This is a link to the publisher's website www.degruyterbrill.com/publishing/s...

The team got the chance to become more acquainted with De Gruyter Brill and its programme, and inquire about possibilities regarding the publishing of several collective volumes and monographs of the different sub-projects.

Discussing the TRANSLAPT Book Series

On 3 July, Torsten Wollina, Acquisitions Editor of the academic publisher De Gruyter Brill, visited the TRANSLAPT team to present on the publishing programme and discuss the upcoming TRANSLAPT book series.

Apart from the conference, they took the opportunity to examine manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg (BNUS) and to discuss details of the upcoming book series of the project with De Gruyter Brill.

TRANSLAPT presenting in Strasbourg

Last week, four members of the TRANSLAPT team presented their research at the 6e Congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans (GIS MOMM). This is the link to the conference page: momm-strasbourg.sciencesconf.org?lang=fr

The contributors explore the complexities of translation in the Ottoman Empire, examining the intersections of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish (elsine-i s̱elās̱e), and covering topics such as literary translations, lexicography, and the evolution of Ottoman Turkish as a lingua franca.

*Newly Published*
Elsine-i S̱elās̱e: A Cultural Analysis of Transmission and Translation in the Ottoman Empire

The newest TRANSOTTOMANICA publication has been released, featuring contributions by Bockholt and Sick from TRANSLAPT, Drkić, Zildžić, Benedek Péri, Sargsyan and Çelik.

Particularly relevant for TRANSLAPT was the panel chaired by Philip Bockholt, including a presentation by Şeyma Benli on Ottoman munāẓara literature, which was connected to the topic of translation as well. The TRANSLAPT team was delighted to take part in this workshop!

Arguing about Munāẓara
On 10–12 June, the workshop „Munāẓara – Seeing Eye to Eye? Theological and Literary Arguing Practices in Comparison“ took place at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Münster, discussing this literary genre in a variety of contexts.

featuring a wide range of scholars both junior and senior, with many fruitful discussions. The TRANSLAPT team thanks everyone involved, either as a contributor or guest at the event!

Concluding the Workshop

On Friday, 6 June, the workshop on "Translation and Multilingualism in Mongol and Post-Mongol Eurasia" jointly organised by the TRANSLAPT and NoMansLand teams came to a conclusion. The event was an intriguing experience,

Kristof D’hulster (Münster) examined manuscripts dealing with the ghost star Şigir Yulduz, Lingli Li (Göttingen - Paris) discussed the Tarjuma-yi Kitāb-i Bārāhī and its Indo-Islamic traditions, and Qiao Yang (Jerusalem) talked about the transmission of Islamicate astral sciences in China.

🌌 Panel I: Between Xīng and Yıldız: Astrology and Astronomy across Eurasia
🕒 Wednesday, 4 June | 16:30 |

Chair: Andrew Peacock

This first panel of the workshop featured three presentations focusing on multilingual knowledge transfer in astronomy and astrology.

introducing their respective research groups,NoMansLand (Vienna) and TRANSLAPT (Münster).

Opening Session
🕒 Wednesday, 4 June | 14:30

The first day of the workshop began with a welcome address from Marco Schöller (Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Münster University) and the organisers of the event, Bruno De Nicola and Philip Bockholt, followed by two presentations

Home Investigating Literary Evidence for Transculturation in Medieval Iran and Central Asia in the 13th – 15th centuries.

The guests' valuable feedback contributed to the further development of the sub-projects and offered new perspectives. In addition, the meeting also allowed for an exchange about ongoing research in St Andrews and Vienna. For NoMansLand, click www.oeaw.ac.at/iran/nomansl...

On 3 June, the TRANSLAPT team met with its Mercator Fellow, Andrew Peacock (University of St Andrews), Bruno De Nicola and Sara Mirahmadi from the FWF START-award project NoMansLand (Austrian Academy of Sciences) in Münster. In the meeting, the TRANSLAPT presented their current research,

Get ready for a palette of intriguing contributions to the study of pre-modern translation and multilingualism! For more details, see www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIsl...

Only one week left until the Translation and Multilingualism in Mongol and Post-Mongol Eurasia workshop at Münster University, jointly organised by the research groups @NoMansLand_OEAW (Vienna) and @translapt
(Münster)!

and its transregional circulation and narrative variation, and on the courtly libraries of two Kurdish emirs, Abdāl Khān Bidlīsī and Aḥmad Beg Mokrī, and their use for the study of Kurdish cultural history. This is a link to the website of the ILCAA: aa.tufs.ac.jp/en

From 12 to 25 May, Sacha Alsancakli was a guest at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. As a guest of Yui Kanda, he delivered two lectures on the epic of Muḥammad Ḥanafiyya, a Turco-Persianate historical epic ...

This is the link to the conference website: mittelalter2.geschichte.uni-freiburg.de/kolloquien/t...

organised by Anne Greule (Göttingen) and Maria Kammerlander (Freiburg), took place at the University of Göttingen. It included presentations by young academics and experienced researchers from the fields of European medieval history, art history and Islamic studies.

Conference on Wissensgeschichte in Göttingen

Last week, Philip Bockholt discussed translation processes as part of knowledge transfer in the early modern period at the conference "Das Artefakt im Fokus – Mediävistische Wissensgeschichte in der interdisziplinären Praxis". The conference,

SCORE

Here is a link to the project page:
www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forsch...

Her visit to Münster also included a joint session with the TRANSLAPT team to discuss both the current state of both research groups and the topics of the individual research projects. The team was delighted to meet and discuss the ongoing research with her and looks forward to future exchanges.

On 15 May, Hannah-Lena Hagemann, the group leader of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group SCORE: Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (Hamburg University), gave a lecture at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Münster presenting the current research of her group.