Activities

November 12 2025: Boris Liebrenz, "From Constantinople into the World: The Mobility of Libraries and Their Owners Through the Example of Abū Bakr al-Širwānī (d. 1135/1723)"

Invited lecture at Trinity College Dublin, Centre for the Book.

November 7 2025: Boris Liebrenz, "Bibliophilia in 18th-century Damascus: The Book Collection of ʿAbdallāh b. Zayn al-Dīn al-Buṣrawī"

Presentation at the Conference Libraries of the Ottoman World, Dublin, November 5-8, 2025

24 October 2025 to 1 March 2026: Stefanie Brinkmann, collaborating on the exhibition “Manuscripts & Mind. How we read and respond to the written word” at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

October 8 2025: Stefanie Brinkmann and Asma Hilali, “Islamic Manuscripts. Scribes and Readers”, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

25 September 2025: Stefanie Brinkmann, “Between Mamluk Egypt, Mongol Azerbayjan and Anatolia: Traces of a hadith commentator and his editorial efforts”, Toledo

16 September 2025: Daniel Kinitz, "Arabographische Texterkennung von Referenzwerken – Herausforderungen beim Einsatz Deep-Learning-basierter Anwendungen"

12 September 2025: Bibliotheca Arabica Panel at the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT), Erlangen

11 September 2025: Rawda El Hajji at the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT), Erlangen

11 September 2025: Fatme el Bazzal at the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT), Erlangen

10 July 2025: Rawda El Hajji, "Reconstructing Buda Manuscripts: The Case of Süleyman Efendi's Multilayered Corpus"

9 July 2025: Boris Liebrenz, "Crossing Borders with Books: The Mobility of Libraries and Their Owners Through the Example of Abū Bakr al-Širwānī (d. 1135/1723)"

Boris Liebrenz will give the keynote lecture for the conference "Once We Were Here. Traces of Mobility Across the Ottoman Empire," organized by Vevien Zaki at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich.

8 July 2025: Daniel Kinitz, "Data-driven intellectual history? Building a research platform for Arabic manuscript cultures"

What challenges arise in data-driven approaches to historical scholarship?

16 May 2025: Boris Liebrenz, "The Manṭiq al-waḥš and the Early Arabic Illustrated Book," Paris

28 April 2025: Verena Klemm & Daniel Kinitz, Project Presentation, Nizwa (Oman)

10-11 February 2025: Verena Klemm, "Two IsmāʿīIī notebooks from Gujarat (17th and 19th century) – Literary networks between Cairo, Yemen and India"

17 January 2025: Rawda El Hajji, "The Corpus of Süleyman Efendi and Its Multilayered Manuscripts“

5 December 2024: Boris Liebrenz, "Zoomorphic Seals in Ottoman Book Culture and the Question of Early Modern Antiquarianism"

International Conference: Libraries of the Ottoman World

4 December 2024: Kirill Dmitriev, Guest Lecture "Vom indischen Buddha zum europäischen Josaphat: Arabische Quellen des Romans Barlaam und Josaphat"

8 November 2024: Verena Klemm, "Efficient Networks: Reconstructing the provenance and transfer of Ismaili manuscripts from Gujarat to University Library Tübingen"

23-25 October 2024: Stefanie Brinkmann, Presentation on ideas for experiments with a manuscript in the Project "Paratexts Seeking Understanding"

24 September 2024: Daniel Kinitz, "Machine-Learning-basierte Texterkennung arabographischer Handschriftenkataloge: Herausforderungen und Best Practices"

10 September 2024: Boris Liebrenz, "The Re-use of Handwritten Material in Islamic Bindings"

7 September 2024: Stefanie Brinkmann, “The Circulation and Reception of al-Baghawī’s Maṣābīḥ al-sunna and its Commentary Tradition”

May 30 2024: Boris Liebrenz, “The books of Ali al-Bistami, known as Musannifak”

23 April 2024: Daniel Kinitz, "Arabische Handschriften: Datengetriebene Forschung zu arabischer Geschichte"

16-17 March 2023: Boris Liebrenz, Workshop on the library of Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar in Acre

28 February 2024: Daniel Kinitz, Lecture "Bibliotheca Arabicas Forschungsplattform Khizana. Referenzwerk für MENA-Bibliothekare?"

6 February 2024: Verena Klemm, Ismailitische Handschriften der UB Tübingen: Eine Provenienzrecherche

22 January 2024: Katharina Meinecke "Vorislamische Bildmotive in der visuellen Kultur der Umayyaden: Globale Perspektiven und Ebenen der Aneignung"