Qalamos: Connecting Manuscript Traditions

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As the year comes to an end, let’s review the 2025 statistics from #Qalamos posts on #Bluesky: Most interacted, unique interactions, most used words and top posts!😀

After a brief detour to the Lord's Prayer in a bilingual manuscript, our Advent calendar continues today with the Christmas Gospel: The angel appears to the shepherds.

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If only one year is entered, then manuscripts without a date will also be displayed.
This feature resulted from a testers' request during the usability study. Thank you! ☺️
@stabiberlin.bsky.social

🎅 A Christmas present from #Qalamos: After a search for manuscript metadata, the search results can now also be filtered by year. The two search fields below the "additional filters" allow a search from/to the given years.

©️Forschungsbibliothek Gotha

No need to stress about picking the best seat at the Christmas table, for my latest publication comes to the rescue: "The Art of Picking the Best Seat: From Seating Positions at a Muslim Majlis to Hindu vāstu śāstra," International Journal of Divination & Prognostication 6 (2025): 191-254.

Architecture of Memory Architecture of Memory explores architectural disappearance, urban remembrance and functional change amid social upheaval. Using archival, architectural and artistic methods, Natalia Romik investigate...

#Online Ressource | Natalia Romik’s: #Architecture of #Memory: Exploring (Post-) Jewish Spaces in Eastern Europe now available in Open Access| UCL Press

Download: uclpress.co.uk/book/archite...

Curious about the medieval Islamicate world?

Join the Invisible East team, and guests, for a Saturday course at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social

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

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Arab astronomers in the early Islamic Golden Age were pioneers of science and innovation. They developed technologies for navigation, timekeeping and the study of the cosmos.

Discover the texts that shaped the training of these scholars: www.qdl.qa/en

🤩🎅Leipzig University has created a beautiful electronic Advent calendar, a real "Treasure Trove", which highlights interesting areas. Under today's date, you will find a link to #Qalamos with beautiful miniatures, like this one from the famous Jahangir Album: www.uni-leipzig.de/universitaet...

As a little treat for you, here's an #ArabicBible Advent calendar 🧵. Every day I'll post a verse from the Christmas story from one of the oldest Arabic Gospel lectionaries, Sinai ar. 72, dated 897 CE (and a few other texts in between). [2nd attempt, I won't be offended if you point out my nonsense.]

MEM Book Prize

"Black Knights compellingly re-frames Arabic epic within a broader global history of race, thus prompting medievalists [...] to reconsider how racial formations, heroic imaginaries, and epic narrative structures intersect across time and space."

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www.middleeastmedievalists.com/book-prize/

#Chancen | Full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Judaic Studies at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

#professor #judaicstudies #ny

Deadline for applications: January 11, 2026

Year-end #CrossAsia Talk! On Dec 4 at 6 pm, Cooley, Wu & Chen discuss "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese & Spanish Worlds in Dialogue". How did China & the Spanish Empire become comparable knowledge powers desipte thousends of miles apart? sbb.berlin/39gk5 @stabiberlin.bsky.social

Wir suchen Nutzendenvertretung für unser Fachbeiratstreffen am 23.01.2026 in Berlin @stabiberlin.bsky.social. Interesse, unsere strategische Entwicklung mitzugestalten? Bewerbung bis 15.12. möglich. Reisekosten werden übernommen. Alle Infos hier: sbb.berlin/k1dfl Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch.

Some more information about the new #BibliaArabica project from @goetheuni.bsky.social, which will partner with @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, the project will be based @badw.de and @adwmainz.bsky.social.

#Event | Call for papers for the upcoming conference “Underprivileged Bodies: Marginality and Minority in Europe, 1850–1939”, on July 6–8, 2026, at the Department of Jewish Studies, Wrocław University | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

Deadline for submissions: January, 15, 2026

Laura Gallardo Dominguez and Malgorzata Grzelec with the Sosa family at the Bii Dauu dye production workshop.

A manuscript from don Alfonso Garcia Tellez. Photo: Malgorzata Grzelec.

Małgorzata Grzelec and Laura Gallardo Domínguez have just returned from their journey right into the heart of Mexico’s material writing culture, documenting local papermaking and dye production traditions. In our blog, they report on their trip:
uhh.de/csmc-mexico

The DO is the only open-access magazine that covers developments and topics in the #DH worlds of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern fields. It is run by a team of dedicated scholars, librarians, and students, who bring you useful tips and new studies.

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We have big news to share: Our head Prof Ronny Vollandt, together with Prof Nathan Gibson (Frankfurt), will receive funding for a 21-year long-term project on Arabic translations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It will be based at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Academy in Mainz.

3. Dezember - Service erst ab 13 Uhr | Service from 1 pm - SBB aktuell Wegen einer Personalversammlung am Vormittag des 3. Dezember öffnen die Servicetheken beider Häuser sowie die die Lesesäle Karthago, Venedig, Vivarium und Wien im Haus Unter den Linden erst ab 13 Uhr....

⚠️ Nutzungsinfo⚠️ Aufgrund einer Personalversammlung am Vormittag des 3. Dezembers kommt es zu veränderten Öffnungszeiten der Servicetheken sowie der Lesesäle Karthago, Venedig, Vivarium und Wien. Genauere Infos dazu findet ihr auf unserem Blog 👉 sbb.berlin/jsjt5

✨ debut post by our Yashee Singh!
Why are Hindi-language PDFs so difficult to extract text from, and to do about it?

Singh explains the challenges behind #Hindi #OCR and offers practical solutions for legacy #fonts, scanned documents, and Unicode-based workflows.

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As a little treat for you, here's an #ArabicBible Advent calendar 🧵. Every day I'll post a verse from the Christmas story from one of the oldest Arabic Gospel lectionaries, Sinai ar. 71, dated 897 CE (and a few other texts in between).

Dr. Daniel K. Gullo, director of HMML's Malta Study Center, presented recently at a Disaster Management and Climate Change in Archives workshop sponsored by The National Archives of Malta, co-financed by the EU.

Learn more about the Malta collections photographed by HMML: hmml.org/collections/malta

*Call For Papers*

Interdisciplinary Workshop “The Bible in the Middle Eastern Manuscript Tradition” - University of Rome Tor Vergata

April 22–24, 2026

www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...

We don't know if #AI will take our jobs, but for now, we use it to do them better. At #Qalamos, we blend our code with AI-generated code to build workflow-boosting tools—like our transcription tool for #DIN_31635, #LoC, and original #Arabic. The future is uncertain, but the collaboration is real.💪🦾

Middle East Studies Association The History Department invites applications for a nine-month tenure-system appointment expected to start on September 1, 2026, at the rank of Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle Ea...

#Employment The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a nine-month tenure-system appointment, at the rank of Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. mesana.org/resources-an...

A tsakali manuscript in a special sample holder before being examined with an X-ray beam at DESY. Photo: Marta Mayer/DESY

They are not just written artefacts, but objects of art. Applying a broad spectrum of analytical tools, the new volume of our book series aims at providing the complete history of 65 tsakali cards from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
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