Qalamos: Connecting Manuscript Traditions

*call for application*

Am Käte Hamburger Kolleg CURE an der Universität des Saarlandes forscht jährlich eine internationale, interdisziplinäre Gruppe von Fellows. Für das dritte Kollegjahr (Okt. 26-Sept. 27) werden bis zu 12 Fellowships ausgeschrieben.

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#OnlineRessource | The @‌National Library of Israel has digitized a 14th-century #Mahzor (prayer book) from the unique #Kaffa rite, with piyyutim, many of which were previously unknown, from the Jewish communities of the Crimean Peninsula

#yomkippur #mahzor #nli

Link: www.nli.org.il/he/manuscrip...

Register for a CSMC workshop

‘Second Hands’ and ‘Second Thoughts’ are the theme of our workshop on multilayered written artefacts of 19th- and 20th-century Austrian and German music this week – including live performances on a grand piano!

Registration is still open, also for online participation:

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MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Discover more about our new hybrid lecture series for Oxford Lifelong Learning, 'Silk Roads: Empire and Everyday Voices in the Medieval Islamicate East', in this invitation from our Programme Director, Arezou Azad.

#medievalsky #skystorians #silkroads

PhD Scholarship in Theology, Religious Studies or Slavic Studies PhD History Catholic Ecumenism

PhD Scholarship in Theology, Religious Studies or Slavic Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of KU Leuven: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Buchpatenschaft für Oktober 2025 - SBB aktuell Einzelstücke und Suiten für die Viola da Gamba, ein Streichinstrument, das heute für die historische Aufführungspraxis wiederentdeckt wird.

🤝Jeden Monat eine neue #Buchpatenschaft: Wir suchen Pat:innnen, um Werke aus dem #Stabi-Bestand zu retten und wieder benutzbar zu machen. Im #Oktober könnt ihr fünf Bände des #Komponisten und #Gambisten Marin Marais unterstützen. Alle Infos, Kontakt und Kosten 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/buchpatensch...

Early Quranic #manuscripts continue to reveal fascinating insights into the history of the #Quran. #Qalamos provides metadata for several fragments from this period, preserved in German libraries & academic institutions — and links to digital copies when available!🦾👇
www.qalamos.net/receive/MyMs...

*call for applications*

Im Zuge des Beginns des Exzellenzclusters Cross-Cultural Philology werden 12 Doktorandenstellen (65%) und 17 Postdocstellen (100%) nach TV-L E13 ausgeschrieben.

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Roshan Institute to Establish Persian Digital Library | Maryland Today Supported by $1.8M Private Gift, Project Will Be First of Its Kind

"[T]he initiative will provide free, global access to a constantly expanding body of classical and modern Persian texts. The project will also partner with institutions to help safeguard thousands of at-risk manuscripts and rare books from collections in India, Pakistan and beyond."

Middle East Studies Association The Department of History invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the history of the Persianate World from the Muslim conquest to the present.

#Employment The Department of History at Georgetown University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the history of the Persianate World from the Muslim conquest to the present. mesana.org/resources-an...

Early Quranic #manuscripts continue to reveal fascinating insights into the history of the #Quran. #Qalamos provides metadata for several fragments from this period, preserved in German libraries & academic institutions — and links to digital copies when available!🦾👇
www.qalamos.net/receive/MyMs...

Quantitative Scholarship as “Low Tech” Digital Humanities This is a guest post by Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh@ruthmostern Like all terms for disciplines and methodologies, the digital humanities, a label that has been in use since the early yea…

#OTD 2 yrs ago

A guest post by @rmostern.bsky.social on the integration of #digitalhumanities in one's research

"What does it mean to assert that a project represents scholarship in the digital humanities?"
check it out 👇

#tbt #dhinpractice

digitalorientalist.com/2023/10/06/q...

From fragments to text and ink: a scientific and historical study of an Umayyad Qur’ān - npj Heritage Science npj Heritage Science - From fragments to text and ink: a scientific and historical study of an Umayyad Qur’ān

New open-access publication: Discover how a multidisciplinary approach helped identify and contextualise three Qurʾānic parchment fragments from the University of Münster collection, revealing their shared origins in an Umayyad Qur’an:
www.nature.com/articles/s40...

TERMINE - SBB aktuell Ausstellungen und Veranstaltungen der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

☕ #GutenMorgen! Unser Kulturprogramm der Woche:

☀️ Mo, 6.10.: Datencafé – mit Input zur historischen Netzwerkanalyse mit Python
☀️ Mi, 7.10.: culture.explore(data): An Open Cultural Data Hackathon
☀️ Fr, 10.10.: Escape Game - Last Exit Stabi

Zum Kalender 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termine/

#StabiBerlin

*upcoming events*

Datenkompetenz für die Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften:

Der Workshop setzt grundlegende Kenntnisse in Linked Open Data voraus und bietet eine vertiefende Behandlung spezieller Themen und Anwendungsfälle in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften.

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That is fascinating! #Qalamos, with its entries on text fragments from the #Turfan collection, is undoubtedly also an online resource for anyone interested in writing cultures along the Silk Road. The basic metadata can already be viewed, a starting point for those interested in #silkroad cultures.

Datencafé – mit kurzem Input zur historischen Netzwerkanalyse mit Python - SBB aktuell Event Details Date: 06.10.2025 11:00 – 17:00 Venue: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Raum Oxford Categories: Wissenswerkstatt-Schulung

🐬Taucht ein in die Welt der #Kulturdaten der #StabiBerlin: Bei unserem Datencafé am 6. Oktober bekommt ihr eine Einführung in die historische Netzwerkanalyse mit #Python. Alle Infos 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termin/daten...

#tbt to a piece by Chris Diamond, contributor for #DH in Indian literature and culture

Do you like 🎙️ podcasts?

Diamond and colleagues did one on the topic of digital repatriation. Here, he details the steps behind this work👇

#DHtools #DHinpractice #teaching
digitalorientalist.com/2023/03/17/p...

We're delighted to be joined by fantastic colleagues, Jade Whitlam and @helengittos.bsky.social, for our upcoming lecture series for @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Don't miss this chance to explore this fascinating region & period!

🔗 bit.ly/SilkRoadslectures

#skystorians #medievalsky #history

Middle East Studies Association The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South is seeking outstanding candidates for two postdoctoral fellowships focused on the histories, cultures, societies, and media of the Global South.

#Employment The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ) is seeking outstanding candidates for two postdoctoral fellowships focused on the histories, cultures, societies, and media of the Global South.
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Middle East Studies Association The Department of Near Eastern Studies invites applications for a position in the field Modern Iranian History, with a particular emphasis on the period spanning 1700 CE to the present.

#Employment The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a position in the field Modern Iranian History, with a particular emphasis on the period spanning 1700 CE to the present.
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The Digital Medieval Manuscript "The Digital Medieval Manuscript" published on 04 Sep 2025 by Brill.

📣📚New publication: S. van Haaren, The Digital Medieval Manuscript - Material Approaches to Digital Codicology, Brill (2025)

▶️ tinyurl.com/45vj7z23

#medievalsky #digitalhumanities

#Opencall
Volkswagen fellowship “From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies” invites applications from scholars in research on Judaism and the Jewish communities of the MENA region from the early modern to modern periods.

www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/volkswagen-m...

Erfolgreicher #Workshop unserer Orientabteilung in Kooperation mit der al-Furqan-Stiftung in London zur Einführung in die islamische Handschriftenkunde. 30 Teilnehmende & Referent:innen aus 18 Ländern kamen an der #StabiBerlin zusammen, um Vorträge zu hören & die Berliner Sammlung kennenzulernen.

Workshop at USAL in Buenos Aires

On 30 September, Philip Bockholt will participate in the workshop "Tradiciones intelectuales en el Oriente Medio durante los períodos pre-moderno y moderno" at the Universidad del Salvador (USAL) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

When you discover exciting things in the old collection: a #Turkestani edition of Ahmed Yesevis Dīvān-ı Ḥikmet from 1900, which Martin Hartmann acquired during a visit to #Tashkent.
حکمت حضرت سلطان العارفین خواجه احمد بن ابراهیم بن محمود بن افتخار یسوی

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Join us for a six-week hybrid lecture series for @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, starting Monday 13 October.

For more information, and to book, visit bit.ly/SilkRoadslectures

#lifelonglearning #studyatoxford #medievalsky #skystorian

Middle East Studies Association The Department of History invites applications for a three-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East/Islamic history beginning July 1, 2026.

#Employment The Department of History at Colby College invites applications for a three-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East/Islamic history beginning July 1, 2026.
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Collection of the Lebanese Maronite Order in Kaslik, Lebanon. (OLM 01367, folios 16r–15v): https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/507976

🧵(1) The Porphyrian Tree is a logic diagram used to explain Aristotle's "Categories," as outlined in Porphyry's commentary the "Isagoge.” The tree progressively subdivides “Being” into genera and species, ultimately reaching “Man,” with the names of individual people at the roots.