Free Webinar – Hidden Gem of a Bygone Era: A Polythematic Work from the Rasulid Era
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Event Name: Hidden Gem Of A Bygone Era: A Polythematic Work From The Rasulid Era
Speaker(s): Kinga Dévényi, Sabina Schmidtke, María Mercedes Tuya
Date: Oct 28, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM EST
Register in advance for this webinar HERE.
The Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is home to a great variety of manuscripts, and early printed books. Its holdings range from one of the largest collection of Tibetan manuscripts and blockprints in Europe, through a complete series of books in Ottoman Turkish printed in the first half of the 18th century by the Müteferrika Press in Istanbul, to the Kaufmann collection, one of the most well-known libraries of Hebrew manuscripts, early printed books and genizah fragments.
After a brief overview of the history of the Oriental Collection, the lecture demonstrates the use of digital humanities through the example of an undated manuscript of a polythematic work from the Rasulid era, the Unwan al-sharaf of Ibn al-Muqri’ (d. 837/1433).
Kinga Dévényi is associate professor of Arabic and Islamic civilization at the Corvinus University of Budapest, and curator of Arabic and Hebrew manuscripts and the Goldziher collection in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her publications include a Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Leiden: Brill; Budapest: MTAK, 2016).
Sabine Schmidtke (host) (permanent faculty @Institute for Advanced Study)
Sabine Schmidtke is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. Areas of interest include Islamic Studies, Islamic and Jewish Intellectual History, Bible in Arabic, Judeo-Arabic, Imami Shiism, Zaydiyya, Islamic Theology (kalam), Islamic manuscripts, Muslim reception of the Bible, Islamic philosophy, Geniza.
María Mercedes Tuya (host) (DigitalScholarship@IAS/Software Support Specialist @Institute for Advanced Study) https://www.ias.edu/digital-scholarship