Archive for April 24th, 2021

1.5^th IDHN Conference on Thursday, May 6, 2021. Please find the full program of the conference as a pdf attachment here. Our program also contains information about the conference’s schedule in different time zones.

Session 1 (10:00 am to 12:00 noon EDT)
Sofya A. Ragozina (Russian Academy of Sciences): Virtual Space of Russian Muslims During Pandemics: What Can We Learn on Building Muslim Identity through Digital Ethnography?
Abdullah al-Saleh (University of Leeds): Quranic Verses Semantic Relatedness Using AraBERT
Yusuf Celik (Utrecht University): Footprinter: an online environment for comparatively tracing Qur’an citations in fifty-five works of substantial law

Session 2 (12:30 pm to 2:30 pm EDT)
Ashley Sanders Garcia (University of California, Los Angeles): Uncovering Women’s Socio-Political Roles in Ottoman Algeria: Mining, Mapping, and Measuring the Relationships of Named and Unnamed Entities
Richard Nielson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): The Rise and Impact of Muslim Women Preaching Online
Yasmin Amin (University of Exeter): Waving the Mantle of the Prophet: The Journey of Umm Salama’s Narration of Ḥadīth al-kisāʾ over Six Centuries

To attend this online conference, please register as a member at https://idhn.org/contact/, or email registration@idhn.org to request guest access. We look forward to your attendance at our conference.

2. Introduction to Arabo-Islamic Manuscript Culture is an Intensive Course organized by Qatar National Library and the Chair of Islamic History and Culture, University of Tübingen, Germany. 21-23.6.2021

https://events.qnl.qa/event/jeB91/EN

At the heart of this introductory course are manuscripts and the knowledge they contain. The course consists of six open lectures and three closed practical sessions, taking students on an exploration of Islamic intellectual heritage from its origins to the modern era.

The lectures begin by tracing fundamental perspectives of heritage, along with related terms, concepts and disciplines dealing with manuscripts. After a survey of writing materials and formats, we will focus on the Arabo-Islamic manuscript tradition, outlining its textual and physical aspects. We will also discuss the cultural history of the Qur’an and Hadith documentation and authorship, as well as issues in the history of reading, learning and the transmission of knowledge, the role of libraries, the book trade, and the preparation of editions.

In this course, we follow the dynamic life cycle of the manuscript and the text, starting from the origin of the work (authorship) and its manifestations and textual relations, through the production of the manuscript(s), until the reception of both in the past and present, considering the social and cultural contexts.

By the end of the course, you will have the basic knowledge and context to better understand the intellectual and social contexts of Arabo-Islamic books and deal with manuscripts in Arabic language and script.

The course will be delivered by Mahmoud Zaki, Manuscript Librarian at Qatar National Library, and Regula Forster, Professor of Islamic History and Culture at the University of Tübingen, with Juliane Müller, Research Associate at the Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies of the University of Tübingen, as a guest lecturer.

The course is taught in both Arabic and English, with simultaneous interpretation. Q&As and participation in sessions can be in either Arabic or English.registration and more information : https://events.qnl.qa/event/jeB91/EN