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Describing the Complex: the Multiple Dimensions of a Relational Database
The paper shows, on the example of manuscripts from Ethiopia containing the Kitāb al-farāʾiḍ which were surveyed by the IslHornAfr project, how a relational database can manage... -
Standards used in online Islamic manuscript databases
For my M.S. thesis at the Faculty of Library and Information Science at Tehran University I conducted a survey of standards used in the databases of Islamic manuscripts... -
"The Book of Useful Properties from the Parts of Animals" by ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī. A...
My doctoral dissertation, completed in 2012 in the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, was dedicated to one of the earliest examples of Arabic medical... -
Conservation of Islamic manuscripts in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. An...
This contribution summarises the results of the conservation of selected Arabic, Persian and Turkic manuscripts from the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, funded by the Heydar... -
Project: Corpus Coranicum
Project summary: Corpus Coranicum -
Project: Catalogue of the Gironcourt Collection
By fall 2011, a “full-scale” catalogue of the de Gironcourt collection of West African manuscripts is Ms. University of Liège, General Library, no. 2241,... -
Manuscript culture of West Africa. Part 1: The disqualification of a heritage
West African Islamic manuscripts, meaning written in Arabic or in ‘ajamī and reflecting the perspective of a Muslim civilisation, problematise the very notion of... -
Of Books & Men: Past Cultural Practices and Methods of Islamic Manuscripts Pr...
Demonstrating the evolution of concerns for book preservation is not an easy task. However, observing diverse materials and tracking historical evidence may enable us to draw... -
Project: Islamic Manuscript Database
Project summary: Islamic Manuscript Database -
Orient-Digital database and Islamic book art
Book art, including calligraphy, illuminations, and illustrations, embellishes the great manuscripts of the Islamicate world and comprises one of the finest artistic traditions... -
Manuscript culture of West Africa. Part 2: A survey of the scholarly producti...
This publication is the second instalment of the article devoted to the West African manuscript heritage. The first part, published in the previous issue of the Comparative... -
IslHornAfr and its Database of Islamic Literary Production from the Horn of A...
The project IslHornAfr deals with the Islamic manuscript and literary heritage from the Horn of Africa, primarily Ethiopia, but also Eritrea, Somalia/Somaliland, and Djibouti.... -
Tracing the sources. A rare case of explicit scholarly practice in an Arabic ...
If one thinks about mediaeval collections of recipes and properties—medical and non-medical—in Arabic, it is likely that the image of a chaotic and hopelessly... -
Project: Corana. Production and Transmission of the Qur'ān in the Western Isl...
Project summary: Corana. Production and Transmission of the Qur'ān in the Western Islamic World -
The Zaydi Manuscript Tradition (ZMT). Digitizing the Collections of Yemeni Ma...
The literary tradition of the Zaydi community, a branch of Shiʿi Islam that originated in Kufa and later developed in Northern Iran and Yemen, is among the richest and most... -
Project: Futūḥ al-buldān
Project summary: Futūḥ al-buldān -
Patrons and Artists at the Crossroads: The Islamic Arts of the Book in the La...
Cailah Jackson's PhD dissertation is the first book-length study to analyse the production and patronage of Islamic illuminated manuscripts in late medieval Rūm in their...
