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Die ULB Halle hat eine virtuelle Ausstellung zu ihren hebräischen Handschriften veröffentlicht – entstanden aus früheren Katalogisierungsarbeiten und nun endlich online zugänglich.

Hier zur digitalen Sammlung:

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#hebräisch #handschriften

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"Notes on the Bedouins and Wahâbys: collected during his travels in the East" by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt

[London: Colburn & Bentley, 1831]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/98731

#bedouin #wahhabites #travel #tribes #arabs

Bahram Gur meets Arzu, the Daughter of Mahiyar (verso); Illustration and Text, Persian Verses, from the Shahnama of Firdawsi

Bahram Gur meets Arzu, the Daughter of Mahiyar (verso); Illustration and Text, Persian Verses, from the Shahnama of Firdawsi https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.387.b

Hebrew as the early modern gateway drug to Arabic: Franciscus Raphelengius reading a Qur'an by noting Hebrew cognates above the line in @ubleiden.bsky.social MS. Or. 251 (eventually a model for his Arabic type), fully digitised here: digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/33...

Catholic Library, Muslim Books In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dominicans in Cairo collected rare printed books in Arabic, particularly Muslim devotional works rarely found in other libraries.

"In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dominicans collected rare printed books in Arabic, particularly Muslim devotional works . . . These books are slim and ephemeral . . . Most other repositories of rare books in the Muslim world don’t think they’re worth collecting."

Alle drei Bände können sind über die Fernleihe erhältlich: halit.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/search?l=men...

Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 11, 2025

#NewPublication #OpenAccess #ChristianEast #ManuscriptStudies #BookHistory #ArabicBible
“Monastic Literature in Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai: Manuscripts, Scribes, Translators, Authors, and Later Readers”, COMSt Bulletin Special Issue, ed. by Adrian C. Pirtea

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"Handbuch der nordsemitischen Epigraphik nebst ausgewählten Inschriften" by Mark Lidzbarski

[Weimar: Felber, 1898]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/98377

#semetic #languages #inscription

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"موقوفیت خاطره‌لای - Mevkufiyet hatıraları" by Yusuf Akçura

[Orenburg: Kerimof, Hüseyinof ve Şürekası Matbaası, 1907]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/121...

#russia #history #politicalprisoner

Cover. It shows an insight into a cloister vault.

The newest volume in our series Sense, Matter, and Medium: Visual Culture in Medieval Syriac Traditions. From North Africa to China, this volume showcases the breadth of Syriac Christian art and material culture.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...:
#MedievalSky #MedievalArt #GlobalMiddleAges

Today is the day! The story of Imad is now officially out in the world. So excited and humbled by all those who helped along the way. Link for ordering below 😍😍😍

www.bloomsbury.com/us/beirut-ra...

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"Politik im Namen Allahs: der Islamismus - eine Herausforderung für Europa" by Eberhard Seidel, Claudia Dantschke & Ali Yildirim

[Brüssel: Die Grünen im Europäischen Parlament, 2001]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/104...

#islam #fundamentalism #europe

So cool that Besnik Sinani's monograph is now out with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, revealing a completely neglected side of contemporary Saudi Arabia.
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"Die Ssabier und der Ssabismus" by Daniil A. Chwolsohn

[St. Petersburg: Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Akad. der Wiss., 1856]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/100...

#german #arabic #persian #mesopotamia #sabians #histroy

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"Kitāb Muʿǧam al-buldān/ Jacut's Geographisches Wörterbuch" by Yāqūt Ibn-ʿAbdallāh ar-RūmīIn

[Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus in Comm., 1866]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/97946

#islam #geography #dictionary

Das Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung sucht für das Projekt “The Challenges of Applying Muslim Family Law in Democratic Liberal States: A Comparative Action-Research Project” eine*n Wissenschaftliche*n Projektkoordinator*in (m/w/d), recruitingapp-5034.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/52...

*Language Summer School*

#ASPIRANTUM is offering intensive #Persian summer courses in #Yerevan from June to August 2026, with flexible 6–10 week options for beginner to upper‑intermediate learners.

Applications are now open:

aspirantum.com/courses/pers...

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The Thousand and One nights in Judeo-Tajik! And my, that's a lot of names on the front page...

An important part of our role is granting scholars the right to reuse the research from their Gorgias publications in new work. Read the thread for an insight into the process from our friend and Gorgias author Susan Ashbrook Harvey of Brown University...

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"Nouveau guide de conversation française et arabe" by Mohamed Cadri

[Caire: Impr. Cumbo, 1868]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/97583

#arabic #french #languages #reader

Online-Seminar im Programm Open-Access-Publikationskosten Förderbedingungen, Antragsberechtigung und -vorbereitung 27. Februar 2026 9:30 - 11:30 Uhr

Einladung zum Online-Seminar im Programm "Open-Access-Publikationskosten" für Verantwortliche von Einrichtungen, die 2026 einen Antrag einreichen möchten (Deadline: 4. Mai).
Termin: 27.02.26, 9:30 bis 11:30 Uhr

Einzelheiten zum Programm und Zugangsinfos:
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Our latest post is an Editor’s Digest of our Middle Eastern Studies publications from February 2025 to February 2026, curated by Maria S. Thomas (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social ).

Read the full articles on our blog!
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2026/02/17/e...

2025-26 DO Middle Eastern Studies posts⬇️:

M-Classi: A Digital Tool for the Classification of Sciences in Islam and Beyond Introduction A fundamental question in the history of science from antiquity to the premodern era is how people organized knowledge, what ideas shaped the classification of sciences, and how they r…

📖 M-Classi: A Digital Tool for the Classification of Sciences in Islam and Beyond

🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/03/14/m...

📖 At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (2) : A Brief History of Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition in France

🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/04/22/a...

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"Drei Jahre im Nordwesten von Afrika: Reisen in Algerien und Marokko" by Heinrich Freiherr von Maltzan

[Leipzig: Verlag der Dürr'schen Buchhandlung, 1863]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/35877

#algeria #marocco #travel

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"Histoire des Berbères et des dynasties Musulmanes de l'Afrique septentrionale" by ʿAbd-ar-Raḥmān Ibn-MuḥammadIn Ibn-Ḫaldūn

[Alger, 1847]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/97957

#arabic #french

The diversification of Indo-Iranian and the position of the Nuristani languages Halfmann, Jakob. 2025. The diversification of Indo-Iranian and the position of the Nuristani languages (Beiträge Zur Iranistik 54). Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. This book offers a new approach to the long-standing problem of the genealogical affiliation of the Nuristani languages, a small group of closely related languages spoken in the Eastern Hindu Kush, within the Indo-Iranian subgroup of Indo-European. This topic is approached via a step-by-step examination of the crucial isoglosses, while taking into account more sample data than was available to previous researchers.

The diversification of Indo-Iranian and the position of the Nuristani languages

Halfmann, Jakob. 2025. The diversification of Indo-Iranian and the position of the Nuristani languages (Beiträge Zur Iranistik 54). Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. This book offers a new approach to the long-standing…

The migration of Mainz University Library into K10plus has been completed. As a result, the Mainz collections are now fully visible within the union catalog. With this integration, their titles are now available through interlibrary loan:

halit.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/search?q=id%...

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"Kitāb-i Tārīḫ-i Ǧahānkušāy" by ʿAlāʾ-ad-Dīn Ǧuwainī

[Tihrān: Intišārāt-i Arġawān, 1991]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/101...

#history #iran #mongols

The “Alevi Archive” project, led by Prof. Dr. Markus Dreßler (Uni Leipzig), has officially launched. We are pleased that the FID Middle East will continue to accompany this initiative with great enthusiasm.

www.akademienunion.de/presse/kurzi...

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#alevi #minority #anatolia

*Call For Papers*

"Institutional Identities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages" — seeking papers on how institutions shaped identities across Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Islamic world.

Deadline: 20 March.

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