#Employment The German, Russian, Italian and Arabic Department at Hamilton College invites applications for a one-year visiting position with the possibility of a one-year renewal in Arabic beginning July 1, 2026.
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Register now for Monday's virtual launch of @arezouazad.bsky.social's latest titles with Pejman Firoozbakhsh 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan' & 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids': bit.ly/TorontoBookLaunch
New in The Islamicate East series for @edinburghup.bsky.social
#Bamiyan #Barmakids #Afghanistan
Digitale Bibliothek
#Jobangebot: Deine Chance, bei uns durchzustarten! 🚀 Werde Teil unseres engagierten Teams und gestalte mit uns gemeinsam die Zukunft.
Wir suchen eine:n Bibliothekar:in Nachlässe und Digital Humanities!
Bewerbungsschluss ist der 6. Mai 2026.
Erfahre mehr und bewirb dich jetzt 👉 sbb.berlin/d5yei
Auf der Suche nach Plänen für den 1. Mai? Der Hamburger Bahnhof hat für alle etwas zu bieten! ✨
Zum Gallery Weekend Berlin ist das Museum am Freitag, 1. Mai, und Samstag, 2. Mai 2026, bis 22 Uhr geöffnet. Auf Besucher*innen warten DJ-Sets, Open-Air-Konzerte und spannende Literatur-Talks.
A wonderful array of paratextual features are on fine display in this massive (526 folios) 1642 Ottoman Turkish mecmū'a that encompassed an array of genres and authors, the joint work of the münādī Aḥmed Ibn Mūsā and the kātib Muṣṭafā Ibn Aḥmed (SBB Ms. or. quart. 1988):
We're delighted to be hosting an intro workshop on Judeo-Persian with Prof. Ludwig Paul in early May:
www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/wasistlosami...
The recto (left) shows faint traces of the title and a user’s note, as well as the crucial endowment note. Damage and repaired stitching are visible at the upper right. The thread passes across inked areas – proof that the folio was damaged and mended after the endowment note was written. The verso (right) is entirely blank, highlighting the materiality and physical wear of the parchment. Image: Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi Müdürlüğü/Ministry of Culture and Tourism
According to popular history, when the Crusaders invaded Tripoli in 1109, they burned all the books in the city's famous library. Our Artefact of the Month, a fragile leaf recently discovered in the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum in Istanbul, calls this account into question
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Image: © MS Süleymaniye Yazma Eser Kütüphanesi, Izmir 620
Discussing Ottoman Translators’ Prefaces
On 17 April, Tobias Sick gave a lecture in the Ottoman Translation Lab lecture series, organised by Marc Aymes (CNRS/EHESS), Natalie Rothman (University of Toronto), Henning Sievert (University of Heidelberg), and ...
Ancient Persian: A Linguistic History / Kevin T. van Bladel, www.cambridge.org/core/books/a... @universitypress.cambridge.org #openaccess
The Carolingian–Abbasid Axis: Charlemagne and the Caliphate www.medievalists.net/2026/04/the-... #history #Carolingians #Abbasids
Opening pages of a commentary on Islamic law, copied in 1611 CE. (GAMS 01147)
🧵(1) Digitization & cataloging is complete for 41 manuscripts in the collection of the Fondation Georges et Mathilde Salem in Aleppo, Syria. The collection includes texts by a variety of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish authors on topics ranging from medicine to grammar to poetry and literature.
Feiertag 1. Mai
⚠️Nutzungsinfo: Am 1. Mai (Tag der Arbeit) bleibt die #Stabi geschlossen.
Bitte beachtet: Direkt nach dem Feiertag kann es etwas länger dauern, bis bestellte Bücher bereitgestellt werden. Auch bei der Bestätigung von Online-Anmeldungen sowie Ausweisverlängerungen kann es zu Verzögerungen kommen.
Professor Getatchew Haile, renown scholar and advocate in the field of Ethiopian Studies, was born on this day—April 19—in 1931.
In tribute to our colleague, Joe Rogers shares this remembrance of Getatchew as a neighbor in Minnesota: hmml.org/stories/getatchew-haile%E2%80%94giant-in-his-field
The Invisible East Digital Corpus www.invisible-east.org is nominated in the 2025 DH Awards 🎉
If you've found it a helpful resource, why not vote for it (before Friday 17 April!)
Check out all of the other fascinating nominees whilst you are voting!
#digitalhumanities #medievalsky #digitalcorpus
Join us on Monday 27 April for a virtual launch event for 'The Warehouse of Bamiyan' & 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids', Arezou Azad & Pejman Firoozbakhsh's latest publications in The Islamicate East series for @edinburghup.bsky.social.
bit.ly/TorontoBookLaunch
#Bamiyan #Barmakids #Afghanistan
Today is #WorldArtDay 🎨
Thank you to Finn Coburn for sharing this beautiful painting of the Duke Humfrey's Library!
🖼️ | hill.street.art (Instagram)
Poster text: Materiality and Historical Research: A Postgraduate Workshop With the support of the Leiden–Birmingham Strategic Collaboration Fund Monday 20th April 2026, 13:00-17:00 Herta Mohr HMO 1.30 (KITLV seminar room) Refreshments will be provided This workshop will be followed by an evening reception Logos of Leiden University and University of Birmingham
Materiality and Historical Research: A Postgraduate Workshop. Monday 20 April 2026, 13:00-17:00. Short presentations by PhD candidates on a single object, or group of objects, that can demonstrate the importance of materiality in historical research. All are welcome to attend!
In our new article, Zhaleh Nayebossadrian critically examines the Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran (WWQI) digital archive, which aggregates private family collections to recover women's histories from Iran's Qajar era (1796–1925).
Read more on our website !
digitalorientalist.com/2026/04/10/d...
Digitale Bibliothek
#Jobangebot: Deine Chance, bei uns durchzustarten! 🚀 Werde Teil unseres engagierten Teams und gestalte mit uns gemeinsam die Zukunft.
Wir suchen eine:n Bibliotheksmitarbeiter:in Provenienzerschließung / Restitution!
Bewerbungsschluss ist der 29. April 2026.
Bewirb dich jetzt 👉 sbb.berlin/wtrcm
The above miniatures show the deity of the shadow planet Ketu and the standing Duryodhana from the Mahābhārata. .../2
All miniatures can be found here: qalamos.net/receive/DE1B...
@stabiberlin.bsky.social
#Qalamos is increasingly digitizing manuscripts from South Asian writing cultures, including this Nepalese manuscript with 22 miniatures (shelfmark Hs. or. 2376), which depict deities as well as figures from the Indian epic Mahābhārata. ..../1
April 20th 4:15 PM CEST = 10:15 AM EST Olivier Bonnerot on “The @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social Mobile Lab and the non-destructive analysis of written artefacts: insights into inks and pigments on ancient papyri" at Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale and online www.unior.it/en/node/4022
What can we learn from the Ottoman collection of the British Library about provincial manuscript production in Rumelia, the Aegean, southern or eastern Anatolia, and northern Mesopotamia?
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📆 Join us online on April 21 at 12:30 p.m. (CEST) for the next #CrossAsia DH Lunchtalk on “Reimagining Humanities Education: Interdisciplinary Cultivation in the Era of Digital Intelligence” with Dr. Beibei Zhan from Hunan University. All information 👉 sbb.berlin/icmw0
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In-Person Event. Reading Without Words: Hidden Stories of Ethiopic Manuscripts. Workshop with Dr. Jeremy R. Brown. Date: April 23 (workshop 3:30–4:30 p.m., reception to follow). Location: Minnesota Humanities Center, St. Paul, MN. RSVP: HMML.org
On Thursday, April 23, at 3:30 p.m. (CT), join Dr. Jeremy R. Brown in Minnesota for a hands-on, in-person workshop that brings the world of Ethiopic manuscripts to life, showing what we can learn simply by looking closely.
RSVP for this free, in-person workshop: hmml.org/events
Opening page of a gorgeous bilingual translation of the Gospels of St. Matthew & St. Mark (probably had the rest at some point, is now fragmentary), Ottoman Turkish in an elegant nastaʿliq hand on the left, in Latin on the right, copied in 1660 somewhere in the Ottoman world (SBB Ms. or. oct. 3960):
We've launched the website for our 'Coptic in Manchester: Connecting Manuscripts and Communities' UKRI-funded project ('26–28) with @thejohnrylands.bsky.social !
Please share!
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#NewPublication
#OpenAccess
#Syriac
#ChristianEast
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