Country of Words A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature

Country of Words :  A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature
Refqa Abu-Remaileh

"Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature is a digital-born project that retraces and remaps the global story of Palestinian literature in the twentieth century, starting from the Arab world and going through Europe, North America, and Latin America. Sitting at the intersection of literary history, periodical studies, and digital humanities, Country of Words creates a digitally networked and multilocational literary history—a literary atlas enhanced. The virtual realm acts as the meeting place for the data and narrative fragments of this literature-in-motion, bringing together porous, interrupted, disconnected, and discontinuous fragments into an elastic, interconnected, and entangled literary history."

İstanbul Ansiklopedisi: Reşad Ekrem Koçu

"A joint project initiated by Salt and Kadir Has University in 2018, istanbulansiklopedisi.org offers access to the printed volumes of Reşad Ekrem Koçu’s Istanbul Encyclopedia and thousands of related documents. It brings together over 40,000 digitized documents, incorporating published encyclopedia articles and a body of archival material that forms the basis for subsequent volumes. Enabling an in-depth analysis of the archive, the online platform provides a basis to trace and explore the visual and textual connections between various sources. 

Blending common facts with unusual accounts, the Istanbul Encyclopedia —and the relevance of the knowledge it entails— is worthy of further scrutiny."

URL: https://istanbulansiklopedisi.org/  

Accountability Archive

 

"The Accountability Archive is a crowdsourced record of journalists, politicians, and public figures endorsing or encouraging the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and/or defaming pro-Palestinian activists.
We have a vision of a public resource to be used by future historians, and researchers, helping understand how power holders attempted to manufacture consent for the genocidal aggression towards the Palestinian people. We hope this resource will serve to hold them to account."

Open Access Book: Early Civilization and the American Modern : Images of Middle Eastern origins in the United States, 1893–1939

Early Civilization and the American Modern : Images of Middle Eastern origins in the United States, 1893–1939

Author: Eva Miller
Published: UCL Press, 2024

Series: Modern Americas

ISBN: 9781800087200

"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a particular story about the United States’ role in the long history of world civilization was constructed in public spaces, through public art and popular histories. This narrative posited that civilization and its benefits – science, law, writing, art and architecture – began in Egypt and Mesopotamia before passing ever further westward, towards a triumphant culmination on the American continent.

Early Civilization and the American Modern explores how this teleological story answered anxieties about the United States’ unique role in the long march of progress. Eva Miller focuses on important figures who collaborated on the creation of a visual, progressive narrative in key institutions, world’s fairs and popular media: Orientalist and public intellectual James Henry Breasted, astronomer George Ellery Hale, architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, and decorative artists Lee Lawrie and Hildreth Meière. At a time when new information about the ancient Middle East was emerging through archaeological excavation, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia appeared simultaneously old and new. This same period was crucial to the development of public space and civic life across the United States, as a shared sense of historical consciousness was actively pursued by politicians, philanthropists, intellectuals, architects and artists."

Open Access Book: Aspects of Ottoman Economy and Culture

Title: Aspects of Ottoman Economy and Culture: Papers presented at the 24th Symposium of the Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes (CIÉPO)

Editors: Phokion Kotzageorgis & Dimitris Papastamatiou
Published: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of History and Archaeology, Thessaloniki 2024
195 pages.

ISBΝ: 9786185649555

CONTENTS

Preface

PART 1: ECONOMY
Stratis Anagnostou: The Transaction of the Foreign Trade between Lesvos and France and the Collection of Customs Taxes in the Island during the 18th Century, According to Relevant French Archives

Yasar Tolga Cora: "It is Contraction not Crisis": the Panic in the Ottoman Markets in 1906-1908

Melina Grammatikopoulou: European Perceptions of Ottoman Labour

Phokion P. Kotzageorgis: Taking the Baton from J.C. Alexander: the Great Meteoron Monastery in the Early Ottoman Period (15th-16th centuries)

Sevinç Kiiçiikoglu: Financial Supervision in Ottoman Provinces During the era ofSelim III: Emerging Actors

Fatma Öncel: Visualising Confiscation Records of Early-nineteenth Century Ottoman Greece

Dimitris Papastamatiou: Conversing with the Sublime Porte: a Moreot Magnate's Political Interplay with the Ottoman Authority

Onur Usta: What do Gristmills Tell us about the Social and Economic History of Ottoman Anatolia in the Early Seventeenth Century? Rethinking the Wrath of Nature: the Case of Urfa (Ruha), 1629-1631

PART 2: CULTURE

Antonis G. Katsarakis: The ‘‘Yali Camii” in Crete, Greece. An Interpetation of its Layout and Distinctive Dome

Seda Kula: Ottoman Imperial School of Fine Arts’ Role in Architectural Heritage Related Studies and Practices in Late Ottoman Era

Dr. Melpomeni S. Perdikopoulou: The Double Hamam of Ottoman Zichna; an Effort to Interpret an Unknown Bath

Georgios Salakidis: An 18th Century Greek Translation of Mehmed b. Pіr Ali Birgivi’s Vasiyetname

New OA Journal: The Olive Tree: An international collection of art protesting the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

 The Olive Tree: An international collection of art protesting the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

"The Olive Tree

This publication is a direct response to the war in Gaza, the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign, and the illegal settlements and apartheid system that Palestinians are subject to.

 

We are a group of students who believe in the power of art to make a change to this suffering. Where political rhetoric has failed, where news reporting agencies have faltered in delivering truth, we believe that art has a massive potential to capture and convey the plight of the Palestinian people to those who seem otherwise unbothered. As foreign observers of this conflict, ones whose tax dollars are used to fund the bombs being dropped indiscriminately, we feel we must do something.

 

This publication is the result of that feeling. We aim to use the power of art to address the nuance of the situation, to build empathy for the Palestinian struggle, and to shine a light onto the situation with the hopes of bringing these emotions into the public conversation and affecting change. Most importantly, we aim to use the power of art to protest and convey the unconditional immorality of this situation. If you have strong feelings about the war in Gaza or have produced artwork that grapples with this subject, then this publication is for you. Furthermore, we want to emphasize our commitment to elevating Palestinian voices in this collection. This collection seeks to center the art and writing of Palestinian artists and bolster their voices with the art of other communities and allies who stand with them in protest."

The Olive Tree: https://theolivetreecollection.wordpress.com/   

Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum

Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum

Porter, Venetia

This catalogue is the first on the outstanding collection of Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum, by a specialist in the field. The first part focuses on the 638 Arabic, Persian and Indian seals covering material from the 8th to the 20th century. The introduction covers seal practice in different periods and levels of society; the role of the seal and the "alama" or motto, the use of figural representation on the seals, seal engravers, the forgery of seals and the importance of the stones used are described. The features of the seals themselves, in particular the palaeography and dating of early Islamic seals, some grammatical features of the inscriptions, and the range of designs present on the seals are analysed. The types and form of Islamic names, the range of phrases that commonly appear and the characteristics of later seals are also discussed. The second part focuses on 170 amulets in the collection preceded by an introduction to the subject. Research into the engraving techniques is presented with analysis of the stones used. This publication will be a standard work of reference for years to come.

Contributor

• Hoyland, Robert  ( Contributor )
  
• Morton, Alexander  ( Contributor )
  
• Bhandare, Shailendra  ( Contributor )
  
• Ambers, Janet  ( Contributor )
  
• Humphrey, Sylvia  ( Contributor )
  
• Meeks, Nigel  ( Contributor )
  
• Sax, Margaret  ( Contributor )
  
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Date published

• 2011

Institution

• British Museum

Series name

• British Museum Research Publications

Editor

• Porter, Venetia
  

Publisher

• British Museum

Place of publication

• London

ISBN

• 9780861591602

Licence

• CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

 

Open Access Book: نهج البلاغة = Nahj al-balāghah : the wisdom and eloquence of ʻAlī

Nahj al-balāghah : the wisdom and eloquence of ʻAlī : a parallel English-Arabic text / compiled by al-Sharīf al-Raḍī (d. 406/1015)., et al. 

نهج البلاغة : من كلام امير المؤمنين علي بن أبي طالب صلوات الله عليه. 

Translated by Tahera Qutbuddin.

Published: Brill, Leiden, 2024

ISBN: 9789004682603, 9004682600

Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions

Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions 

Editors Leone Gazziero, Laurent Cesalli, Charles H. Manekin, Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, and Michele Trizio 

Book series: Ad argumenta, 4

Place: publisher, year: Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2023

Pages: 272 p.

pISBN: 978-2-503-60819-8

eISBN: 978-2-503-60820-4

doi: 10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.135309

Download: PDF(2.37MB)

Fallacy studies are a well established and fast expanding field of argumentation theory. Without notable exception, however, the evergrowing literature on argumentative failure suffers from a conspicuous lack of interest in medieval fallacy theory - arguably the most creative stage in the whole history of argumentation theories. The standard story is that after Aristotle got off to a tentative start, the study of fallacies lay dormant until people at Port Royal and John Locke revived it in spectacular fashion. The volume will show that this picture is both inaccurate and misleading. By working its way from the inside out within each medieval world, Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions will provide ample and unambiguous record of the exegetical proficiency, technical expertise and argumentative savoir-faire typically displayed by medieval authors on issues about flawed arguments which are all too often our own.

PDF (2.37MB)

Table of Contents

Front Matter ("Table of Contents"), p. 1 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.141435

Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions. Introduction, p. 7 Laurent Cesalli, Leone Gazziero, Charles H. Manekin, Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, Michele Trizio https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137514

Are the Fallacies Topoi?, p. 25 Sten Ebbesen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137515

The Fallacia Consequentis between Term Logic and Sentence Logic in its Medieval Reception, p. 45 Costantino Marmo https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137516

“Qui imperitus est vestrum, primus calculum omittat”. Aristotelis Sophistici Elenchi 1 in the Boethian Tradition, p. 75 Leone Gazziero https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137517

Theology, Fallacious Reasoning and Heresy on the Borders of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Some Remarks on the Fallaciae in theologia and Amalricians, p. 119 Irene Caiazzo https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137518

Byzantine Treatments of Fallacy: The Reception of Aristotle’s Account, p. 131 Melpomeni Vogiatzi https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137519

Outside the Logic of Necessity: Deontic Puzzles and ‘Breaking’ Compound Causal Properties in Islamic Legal Theory and Dialectic, p. 153 Shahid Rahman, Walter Edward Young https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137520

A Forgotten Mereological Paradox, p. 187 Hassan Rezakhany https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137521

Fallacies and Biblical Exegesis – The Case of Joseph ibn Kaspi, p. 209 Charles H. Manekin https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137522

Fallacies in Rabbinical Thought, in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, and in the Treatise on Talmudic Methodology by Abraham Elijah Cohen, p. 231 Aviram Ravitsky https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137523

Are Zeno’s Paradoxes of Motion Fallacies? Evidence from the Hebrew Aristotelian Logical Tradition, p. 249 Yehuda Halper https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137524

 

Nakba Day Anniversary, 2024: Archives, Libraries, Memory and Narrative

Please take a look at the post published published by Global Studies at Columbia University Libraries on today's anniversary of Nakba :

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/global-studies/2024/05/14/nakba-day-anniversary-2024-archives-libraries-memory-and-narrative/

The post reminds us of the ongoing horrific loss of Palestinian lives but focuses on systemic attacks on Palestinian libraries, museums, archives, cultural and heritage institutions.  

Short bibliographies of selected resources are available in each of these four sections: 

• 1948 Nakba: Refugees, Destroyed Villages and Erasure of Historic Palestine (focus on maps and atlases including visual maps, land surveys and local histories);
• Destruction and Pillage of Palestinian Cultural Heritage, archives and libraries since 1948;
• Oral Histories;
• Literary and Cinema related select resources

Newly Open Access Journal: Getty Research Journal

Getty Research Journal

The Getty Research Journal is an open-access publication presenting peer-reviewed articles on the visual arts of all cultures, regions, and time periods.

The journal is published through Getty’s Quire software and freely available in web, PDF, and e-book formats. Topics often relate to Getty collections, initiatives, and broad research interests, although this is not a requirement for consideration. The journal welcomes a diversity of perspectives and methodological approaches, and seeks to include work that expands narratives on global culture. We encourage topics and cultural perspectives that remain marginalized in art history and related fields, as well as work by scholars of underrepresented backgrounds.

Previously available via subscription, the Getty Research Journal converted to a diamond open-access publication with the spring 2024 (no. 19) issue. Past issues (nos. 1–18) are available via subscription from Project MUSE while an evaluation is underway to determine the feasibility of making them freely available.

Getty Research Journal, No. 19

2024

Table of Contents

• Editor’s Note
  Doris Chon
• Northern Africa or Central Iran? An Investigation into the Production Place of a Fragmentary Kufic Qur'an at the J. Paul Getty Museum
  Mahdi Sahragard
• Cuttings from an Illustrated Twelfth-Century French Manuscript Bible in Los Angeles and Berlin
  Beatrice Alai and Peter Kidd
• Jane Dieulafoy in Varamin: The Emamzadeh Yahya through a Nineteenth-Century Lens
  Keelan Overton
• Baghdad Kept on Working: Painting and Propaganda during the British Occupation of Iraq, 1941–45
  Anneka Lenssen
• Overthrowing Reality: Photo-Poems in 1980s German Democratic Republic Samizdat
  Anna Horakova and Isotta Poggi
• The Perpetual Unfolding of Photographic History: A Previously Unknown Panorama of Salvador, Bahia, by Rodolpho Lindemann
  Julieta Pestarino

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Past issues by subscription at Muse: Past Issues

 

Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia

Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia

Geoffrey Khan 

his volume presents an edition of a corpus of Arabic documents datable to the 11th and 12th centuries AD that were discovered by the Egypt Exploration Society at the site of the Nubian fortress Qaṣr Ibrīm (situated in the south of modern Egypt). The edition of the documents is accompanied by English translations and a detailed analysis of their contents and historical background.

The documents throw new light on relations between Egypt and Nubia in the High Middle Ages, especially in the Fatimid period. They are of particular importance since previous historical studies from the perspective of Arabic sources have been almost entirely based on historiographical sources, often written a long time after the events described and distorted by tendentious points of view.

Contents

1. Introduction

(pp. 1–14)

• Geoffrey Khan

2. The Arabic Documents from Qaṣr Ibrīm

(pp. 15–48)

• Geoffrey Khan

3. The Correspondence with Eparchs

(pp. 49–128)

• Geoffrey Khan

4. Other Correspondence and Accounts

(pp. 129–144)

• Geoffrey Khan

5. Legal Documents

(pp. 145–184)

• Geoffrey Khan

6. Coinage

(pp. 185–192)

• Geoffrey Khan

7. Taxes

(pp. 193–194)

• Geoffrey Khan

8. Lists of Commodities

(pp. 195–204)

• Geoffrey Khan

9. Titles of Officials

(pp. 205–234)

• Geoffrey Khan

10. Slaves and Servants

(pp. 235–252)

• Geoffrey Khan

11. The Socio-Economic Situation Reflected by the Documents

(pp. 253–262)

• Geoffrey Khan

12. Script and Layout

(pp. 263–276)

• Geoffrey Khan

13. Language

(pp. 277–284)

• Geoffrey Khan

14. Maps

(pp. 285–286)

• Geoffrey Khan

Contributors

Geoffrey Khan

(author)

Book Series

• Semitic Languages and Cultures vol. 24
• ISSN Print: 2632-6906
• ISSN Digital: 2632-6914

DOI

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0391

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Copyright

Geoffrey Khan

Published On

2024-05-06

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-230-3

Hardback978-1-80511-231-0

PDF978-1-80511-232-7

Language

• English

Print Length

854 pages (xiv+840)

Dimensions

 

OPEN ISLAMICATE TEXTS INITIATIVE

"Funded through two grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Phase One of the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project (OpenITI AOCP) is the first undertaking of its kind to tackle the technical and organizational barriers that historically have stymied the development of Arabic-script OCR and digital text production for Islamicate Studies.

OpenITI AOCP is led by an interdisciplinary team of humanities, computer science, and digital humanities co-principal investigators from Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, Northeastern University’s NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park. We are proud to partner with the SHARIAsource project of the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School and the eScripta project of Université Paris Sciences et Lettres for the technical development portion of the project.

The primary technical goal of the first phase of OpenITI AOCP is to achieve ≥97% character accuracy rates (CARs) for OCR on the most used Persian and Arabic print typefaces. 

The second major deliverable of OpenITI AOCP is an open-source and user-friendly digital text production pipeline for Persian and Arabic texts."

Digital archive : Middle East Women’s Activism

"Middle East Women’s Activism digital archive is a collection of interviews with 96 women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, which form the basis of a monograph, entitled, Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. All interviews were conducted by Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick, in 2013-2014 as part of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship exploring the relationship between gender and geopolitics in the context of the Middle East."

AMBULO (Arabic Manuscripts in the Bologna University Library Online)

AMBULO (Arabic Manuscripts in the Bologna University Library Online

"AMBULO" Project (acronym of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bologna University Library Online) is promoted by the King Abdulaziz Chair for Islamic Studies – University of Bologna. The project is carried out under the supervision of Prof. Ahmad Addous, and coordinated by Dr. Valentina Sagaria Rossi. "AMBULO" has actually started in September 2017 and it envisages the revaluation of one of the most important and richest collections of Arabic manuscripts hosted in a public library in Italy: the Oriental Manuscripts Fund of the University"

Persian Manuscript Materials

 

Persian Manuscript Materials

"This website is dedicated to the study of the material technology of Persian manuscripts. Our goal is to investigate the intricate materials utilized in historical Persian manuscripts, shedding light on the methods and techniques derived from historical recipes mainly between the Taimurid to Qajar dynasties of Persia (15th-19th centuries).

Accompanied by images captured during the reconstruction process following the historical recipes, we aim to provide an immersive exploration into the material heritage of Persian manuscripts."

Ibn Gabirol Digital Project

Ibn Gabirol Digital Project

This project endeavours to provide a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of Ibn Gabirol, an 11th-century Jewish philosopher from Andalusia. Within this framework, both his biographical details and philosophical writings are examined on this website through the use of multiple digital methodologies. Categorized under the domain of Digital Humanities, the project aims to expand the accessibility of Ibn Gabirol's philosophical ideas to a broader audience. By adopting this multifaceted approach, the project aims to offer a comprehensive and scholarly view of Ibn Gabirol's life and works, enriching both contemporary and future scholarship in the realm of philosophy.

The project is sponsored by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).

Visit the User Manual for detailed instructions to improve your experience.

User Manual

 

 

LAMINE 4. An Armenian Futūh Narrative: Łewond’s Eighth-Century History of the Caliphate

LAMINE 4. An Armenian Futūh Narrative: Łewond’s Eighth-Century History of the Caliphate

Sergio La Porta and Alison M. Vacca

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Series Editors: Antoine Borrut and Fred M. Donner

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The History of the Armenian priest Łewond is an important source for the history of early Islamic rule and the only contemporary chronicle of second/eighth-century caliphal rule in Armenia. This volume presents a diplomatic edition and new English translation of Łewond’s text, which describes events that took place during the century and a half following the Prophet Muḥammad’s death in AH 11/632 CE. The authors address Łewond’s account as a work of caliphal history, written in Armenian, from within the Caliphate. As such, this book provides a critical reading of the Caliphate from one of its most significant provinces. Reading notes clarify many aspects of the period covered to make the text understandable to students and specialists alike. Extensive commentary elucidates Łewond’s narrative objectives and situates his History in a broader Near Eastern historiographical context by bringing the text into new conversations with a constellation of Arabic, Greek, and Syriac works that cover the same period. The book thus stresses the multiplicity of voices operating in the Caliphate in this pivotal period of Near Eastern history. 

Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library: A New Digital Edition of Wright’s Catalogue

Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library: A New Digital Edition of Wright’s Catalogue

Editors: David A. Michelson and William L. Potter

"Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library (SMBL) is a digital enhancement of William Wright's Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum acquired since the year 1838 (London, 1870-1872), published by Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal in partnership with the British Library as an open access online resource. Using new methods of digital representation, SMBL enables users to engage with the manuscript collection from diverse perspectives, facilitating exploration of the collection according to new and multiple criteria..."

Open Access Book: The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus

 

Title: The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus
Author: Reynolds, Dwight
Routledge, 2023
ISBN 9780367653613

Summary:

"The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come down to us, accompanied by critical and detailed analyses of the sources written in Arabic, Old Catalan, Castilian, Hebrew, and Latin. It is also informed by research the author has conducted on modern Andalusian musical traditions in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria..."

ALEPPO HERITAGE CATALOGUE دليل تراث حلب

ALEPPO HERITAGE CATALOGUE دليل تراث حلب

 Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin

 متحف الفن الإسلامي في برلين

Edited by Dima Dayoub, Zoya Masoud & Hiba Bizreh

Aleppo is probably the world’s oldest continuously inhabited urban centre, and its Old City is among the most important in the eastern Mediterranean region. Partially destroyed, in some quarters razed, the city is threatened by further deterioration and ad hoc reconstruction works. In response to these threats, the Museum for Islamic Art – Berlin State Museums is creating a catalogue documenting the Old City’s most prominent monuments. The built heritage of the city, whose importance is recognized worldwide, is being recorded for posterity and attested to as worthy of preservation in the present. This multifaceted documentation will also provide concrete help with the reconstruction.

The Aleppo Heritage Catalogue is an important part of the Syrian Heritage Archive Project at the Museum for Islamic Art in the Pergamon Museum. Since 2017, it has been financed by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Each catalogue entry focuses on the following elements of a major historic building:

• Photos, showing the monument before 2011, based on the digital databank of the “Syrian Heritage Archive Project”
• Reports and materials concerning damage, carried out by the “Aleppo Built Heritage Documentation Project”, being part of the “Syrian Heritage Archive Project” (which is also financed by the Gerda Henkel Foundation)
• Art and architectural history of the buildings, written by Aleppine and international researchers and art historians.
• Endowment history: the social history/urban historical background of the structures.
• Memories of Aleppine people in relation to these buildings and its neighbourhoods in the form of texts, voice records and films.
• Detailed drawings and plans of the buildings.

The Aleppo Heritage Catalogue aims to raise awareness. This means communicating with Aleppines and other Syrians about the cultural heritage of their city and country in their mother language, regardless of their political affiliation or economic and social status. Such communication could help launch a discussion among the inhabitants of Aleppo, groups with different interests, and experts. This also entails raising awareness of the Old City’s value, especially as regards its social and historical worth, responsible preservation and reconstruction.

 

Collection of Ottoman censuses on the website of the Hungarian National Archives

 

"„Oszmán összeírások gyűjteménye” a Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár honlapján"

by Szepesiné Simon Éva, National a Hungary

The database "Collection of Ottoman censuses", available at Adatbázisok Online of the National Archives of Hungary, provides an insight into the Ottoman period and the struggling daily life of the Ottoman-Hungarian border region. The database, which currently contains some 26 300 records, primarily focuses on income and property records obtained from the Ottoman tax registers (tapu defterleri) covering the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary and makes them accessible to all, but the structure of the database is suitable for displaying all administrative units of the Ottoman Empire in the future. The collection, which offers both easy and quick access and comparative research, is recommended not only for historians, but for those interested in military history or the past of their localities, too."

Ottoman Censuses: https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/blog/collection-of-ottoman-censuses-on-the-website-of-the-hungarian-national-archives/. 

The Kingdom and the Qur’an: Translating the Holy Book of Islam in Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom and the Qur’an: Translating the Holy Book of Islam in Saudi Arabia

Mykhaylo Yakubovych (author)

This book presents a detailed analysis of the translation of the Qur’an in Saudi Arabia, the most important global actor in the promotion, production and dissemination of Qur’an translations.

From the first attempts at translation in the mid-twentieth century to more recent state-driven efforts concerned with international impact, The Kingdom and the Qur’an adeptly elucidates the link between contemporary Islamic theology and the advent of modern print culture. It investigates this critical juncture in both Middle Eastern political history and the intellectual evolution of the Muslim world, interweaving literary, socio-historical, and socio-anthropological threads to depict the intricate backdrop of the Saudi ‘Qur'an translation movement’.

Mykhaylo Yakubovych provides a comprehensive historical overview of the debates surrounding the translatability of the Qur'an, as well as exploring the impact of the burgeoning translation and dissemination of the holy book upon Wahhabi and Salafi interpretations of Islam. Backed by meticulous research and drawing on a wealth of sources, this work illuminates an essential facet of global Islamic culture and scholarly discourse.

Book Series

• The Global Qur'an vol. 2
• ISSN Print: 2753-8036
• ISSN Digital: 2753-8044

DOI

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0381

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/

Copyright

Mykhaylo Yakubovych

Published On

2024-02-08

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-176-4

Hardback978-1-80511-177-1

PDF978-1-80511-178-8

HTML978-1-80511-181-8

EPUB978-1-80511-179-5

 

Contents

Introduction

(pp. 1–8)

• Mykhaylo Yakubovych

1. Twentieth-Century Debates on the Translatability of the Qur’an in the Middle East

(pp. 9–34)

• Mykhaylo Yakubovych

2. The Muslim World League: A Forerunner to International Translational daʿwa Networks

(pp. 35–54)

• Mykhaylo Yakubovych

3. The Hilālī-Khān Translation : The First Interpretation of the Qur’an in a Foreign Language by Saudi Scholars

(pp. 55–88)

• Mykhaylo Yakubovych

4. The King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Qur’an: A Turning Point in the History of Qur’an Translations

(pp. 89–146)

• Mykhaylo Yakubovych

5. Translation for Everyone : Collaborative Saudi Publishing Projects in Foreign Languages

(pp. 147–176)

• Mykhaylo Yakubovych

Conclusion

(pp. 177–184)

• Mykhaylo Yakubovych

 

Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, October 2023–January 2024

Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, October 2023–January 2024 

A Preliminary Report from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine

Download a PDF of the report here.

The destruction of cultural heritage in Gaza impoverishes the collective identity of the Palestinian people, irrevocably denies them their history, and violates their sovereignty. In this report, we offer a partial list of archives, libraries, and museums in Gaza that have been destroyed, damaged, or looted by Israeli armed forces since October 7, 2023. This report is necessarily incomplete. It is very difficult to determine the status of archives, libraries, and museums in Gaza during the ongoing Israeli bombardment. Current conditions in Gaza, such as the targeting of journalists, frequent communication blackouts, and extensive damage to the built environment pose an immediate threat to safety. Moreover, archivists and librarians have been repeatedly displaced, injured, or killed, making it even more difficult to take stock of the damage to cultural heritage. As a result, it should be assumed that this report represents only a fraction of the extent of damage and death, not a complete picture.

We compile and offer this information with the understanding that the erasure of Palestinian culture and history has long been an Israeli tactic of war and occupation, a means to further limit the self-determination of the Palestinian people. In 1948, during the Nakba, 30,000 books and manuscripts were looted from Palestinian homes; in 1982, during Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, Israel looted and confiscated the library and archives of the Palestine Liberation Organization; libraries and archives were damaged during the Second Intifada, and have been repeatedly targeted in Gaza. Furthermore, the intentional destruction of cultural heritage has been recognized as a war crime and prosecuted in the International Criminal Court.

This report joins those issued by Heritage for Peace (November 7, 2023), the Palestinian Ministry of  Culture (December 6, 2023), the Arab Regional Group at the International Council of Monuments and Sites (January 9, 2024), and others. These reports document the destruction of religious sites, archaeological evidence, cultural institutions, and more. We bring a focus on libraries, archives, and museums as sites of knowledge, community spaces, and repositories of cultural heritage. Irreplaceable historic materials have been lost in the destruction of institutions such as the Central Archives of Gaza City and the Rafah Museum. The destruction of libraries represents the loss of not only book collections, but the efforts of Gaza’s librarians to acquire, care for, and provide access to reading materials, despite Israel’s ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip. 

Finally, we include information about the librarians and archivists who have been killed in the ongoing Israeli bombardment. We mourn the deaths of our colleagues and their families.

February 1, 2024
Librarians and Archivists with Palestine

 

 

Open Access Books from the Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales

CEDEJ - Égypte/Soudan: Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales

Le Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (Cedej) est un centre de recherche pluridisciplinaire, dont les travaux portent principalement sur l’Égypte et le Soudan contemporains. Il publie également, depuis 1990, la revue Égypte/Monde arabe, en ligne sur Revues.org.

Tous les livres

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  أطلس مصر المعاصرة

  هالة بيومي et كارين بنافلا

  (dir.)

  2022

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  Middle Eastern Cities in a Time of Climate Crisis

  Agnès Deboulet et Waleed Mansour (dir.)

  2022

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  Un siècle de recensements en Égypte (1882-1996)

  François Moriconi-Ébrard et Hala Bayoumi

  2019

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  Notes et articles sur l’Égypte

  Maurice Martin

  2018

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  Jeunesses des sociétés arabes

  Par-delà les promesses et les menaces

  Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi et Iman Farag (dir.)

  2007

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  Être femme en Égypte, au Maroc et en Jordanie

  Alain Roussillon et Fatima-Zahra Zryouil

  2006

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  Sa’d Zaghlûl : "Lieu de mémoire" du nationalisme égyptien

  Anne Clément

  2005

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  L’autoritarisme dans le monde arabe

  Autour de Michel Camau et Luis Martinez

  Michel Camau et Luis Martinez

  2005

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  ONG et autoritarisme au Soudan : l’eau en question

  Micaël Nègre

  2004

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  L’effendiyya ou la modernité contestée

  Lucie Ryzova

  2004

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  La reconstruction d’un espace d’échanges : la Méditerranée

  Eberhard Kienle (dir.)

  2000

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  Entre deux mondes : les hommes d’affaires palestiniens de la diaspora et la construction de l’entité palestinienne

  Sari Hanafi

  1997

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  Âge libéral et néo-libéralisme

  VI^e Rencontres franco-égyptiennes de science politique

  1996

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  Mémoires d’un souverain, par Abbas Hilmi II, Khédive d’Égypte (1892-1914)

  Abbas Hilmi II

  1996

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  L’Égypte et l’Algérie au péril de la libéralisation

  Alain Roussillon

  1996

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  Al-Muqtataf et le débat sur le darwinisme

  Beyrouth, 1876-1885

  Olivier Meïer

  1996

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  Entre réforme sociale et mouvement national

  Identité et modernisation en Égypte (1882-1962)

  Alain Roussillon (dir.)

  1995

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  Politiques législatives : Égypte, Tunisie, Algérie, Maroc

  Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales

  1994

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  Le phénomène de la violence politique : perspectives comparatistes et paradigme égyptien

  Baudouin Dupret (dir.)

  1994

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  Images d’Égypte

  De la fresque à la bande dessinée

  Jean-Claude Vatin (dir.)

  1992

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  Le logement en Égypte

  Essai critique

  Milad Hanna

  1992

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  Modernisation et nouvelles formes de mobilisation sociale. Volume II : Égypte-Turquie

  Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales

  1992

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  La Parole et la Défense

  Morcos Fahmy (1872-1955)

  Andrée Morcos Fahmy

  1992

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  Musique arabe

  Le Congrès du Caire de 1932

  Philippe Vigreux (dir.)

  1992

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  Démocratie et démocratisations dans le monde arabe

  Jean Claude Vatin (dir.)

  1992

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  Modernisation et nouvelles formes de mobilisation sociale. Volume I : Égypte-Brésil (1970-1989)

  Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales

  1991

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  Études politiques du monde arabe

  Approches globales et approches spécifiques

  Jean-Claude Vatin (dir.)

  1991

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  La fuite en Égypte

  Supplément aux voyages européens en Orient

  Jean-Claude Vatin (dir.)

  1989

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  Avoir un enfant en Égypte

  Enquête sur les rites et les comportements

  Marie-José Janicot

  1989

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  Nos ancêtres les pharaons...

  L’histoire pharaonique et copte dans les manuels scolaires égyptiens

  Gérard Coudougnan

  1988

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  L’architecture moderne en Égypte et la revue Al-’Imara

  1939-1959

  Mercedes Volait

  1988

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  Islam et dérégulation financière

  Banques et sociétés islamiques d’investissement, le cas égyptien

  Jean-François Rycx

  1988

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  Défense et illustration de l’Égyptienne

  Aux débuts d’une expression féminine

  Irène Fenoglio-Abd El Aal

  1988

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  Sociétés islamiques de placement de fonds et "ouverture économique"

  Alain Roussillon

  1988

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  Samir Mickey Sindbad et les autres

  Histoire de la presse enfantine égyptienne

  Bertrand Millet

  1987

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  L’idéologie par la bande

  Héros politiques de France et d’Égypte au miroir de la BD

  Fedwa Malti-Douglas et Allan Douglas

  1987

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  Divorcer en Égypte

  Étude de l’application des lois du statut personnel

  Hoda Fahmi

  1987

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  La lutte contre les stupéfiants en Égypte

  Enjeux sociaux d’une répression

  Alain Roussillon (dir.)

  1986

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  L’Histoire que je porte sur mon dos

  Mémoires

  Sayyid Uways

  1985

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  Les chrétiens égyptiens aujourd’hui

  Éléments de discours

  1985

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  Les intellectuels et le pouvoir

  Syrie, Égypte, Tunisie, Algérie

  Gilbert Delanoue (dir.)

  1985

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  La campagne de contrôle des naissances en Égypte

  1980-1981

  Marie-Christine Aulas, Hoda Youssef Fahmi et Amira Machhour

  1982

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  La révolution iranienne dans la presse égyptienne

  Mohga Machhour et Alain Roussillon

  1982

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  Essayons d’en rire !

  Caricatures publiées dans la presse égyptienne

  Ghislaine Alleaume et Farida Gad El-Hakk

  1982

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  Les Waqfs dans l’Égypte contemporaine

  Kamel T. Barbar et Gilles Kepel (dir.)

  1981

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  Dimensions sociales de l’enseignement en Égypte

  1980

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