OA Newspaper: كاروان = Kārawān = Caravan (1968-1973)

Kārawān was published by Sạbahuddin̄ Kushkaki in Kabul City, Afghanistan beginning on September 24, 1968. The newspaper’s name is Caravan when transliterated into English. The Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection in UNO Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections has scattered issues from volumes 2-12. Funding for the digitization and online access to issues of Kārawān was provided by the generous support of Fran and Will Irwin.

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Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library: A publication of St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt

Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library: A publication of St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt

The Sinai Manuscripts Digital Library is a publication of St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt, in collaboration with the UCLA Library and Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (EMEL). It hosts online the results of the Sinai Library Digitization Project, a ten-year collaborative effort to digitize the unparalleled manuscript library of St. Catherine’s Monastery.

St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai preserves one of the world’s oldest continually operating libraries. It holds some 4,559 manuscript codices, with works in 13 languages written from the 4th to the 19th century. These include the New Finds, a cache of approximately 1,100 fragmentary manuscripts discovered in 1975 when monks cleared debris from an earthquake-damaged room in the north wall of the Monastery.

The Sinai Library Digitization Project is digitizing the Monastery’s manuscripts in two phases:

Phase One

Arabic and Syriac manuscripts

1,172 codices (400,000 pages)

February 2018 through March 2021

Phase Two

Greek, Georgian, Slavonic and other languages

3,387 codices (1.1 million pages)

Dates to be determined

The project benefits from the contributions of digital imaging scientists and technicians, conservators, consulting scholars, librarians, program managers, and software designers in Greece, Egypt, the U.S., and some seven other countries. Phase One is funded by generous grants and gifts from the Ahmanson Foundation, Arcadia, the Museum of the Bible Scholar’s Initiative, and the Steinmetz Family Foundation.

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Open Access E-Book: Authority and Control in the Countryside

Authority and Control in the Countryside

From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century)

Editors: Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, and Petra Sijpesteijn

Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume: 9

"Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands. Measures of direct control – land ownership, judicial systems, garrisons and fortifications, religious and administrative appointments, taxes and regulation – and indirect control – monuments and landmarks, cultural styles and artistic models, intellectual and religious influence, and economic and bureaucratic standard-setting – are examined to reconstruct the various means by which authority was asserted over the countryside. Unified by its thematic and spatial focus, this book offers an array of interdisciplinary approaches, allowing for important comparisons across a wide but connected geographical area in the transition from the Sasanian and Roman to the Islamic period."

Contributors: Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy, Sobhi Bouderbala, Michele Campopiano, Alain Delattre, Jessica Ehinger, Simon Ford, James Howard-Johnston, Elif Keser-Kayaalp, Marie Legendre, Javier Martínez Jiménez, Harry Munt, Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent, Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset, Gesa Schenke, Petra Sijpesteijn, Peter Verkinderen, Luke Yarbrough, Khaled Younes.

ISBN: 978-90-04-38654-9

ISBN: 978-90-04-38635-8

Open Access E-Book: Islam at 250; Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll

Islam at 250; Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll

Editors: Petra M. Sijpesteijn and Camilla Adang

Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume: 10

"Islam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization. It covers a wide range of intellectual activity in the first three centuries of Islam, such as the study of ḥadīth, the Qurʾān, Arabic language and literature, and history. Individually and taken together, the articles provide important new insights and make an important contribution to scholarship on early Islam. The authors, whose work reflects an affinity with Juynboll's research interests, are all experts in their fields. Pointing to the importance of interdisciplinary approaches and signalling lacunae, their contributions show how scholarship has advanced since Juynboll's days."

Contributors: Camilla Adang, Monique Bernards, Léon Buskens, Ahmed El Shamsy, Maribel Fierro, Aisha Geissinger, Geert Jan van Gelder, Claude Gilliot, Robert Gleave, Asma Hilali, Michael Lecker, Scott Lucas, Christopher Melchert, Pavel Pavlovitch, Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Roberto Tottoli, and Peter Webb.

ISBN: 978-90-04-42795-2

ISBN: 978-90-04-42794-5

Open Access E-Book: Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1950

Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1950

Ideologies, Rhetoric, and Practices

Volume Editors: Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Karène Sanchez Summerer

Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume: 11

"From the early phases of modern missions, Christian missionaries supported many humanitarian activities, mostly framed as subservient to the preaching of Christianity. This anthology contributes to a historically grounded understanding of the complex relationship between Christian missions and the roots of humanitarianism and its contemporary uses in a Middle Eastern context. Contributions focus on ideologies, rhetoric, and practices of missionaries and their apostolates towards humanitarianism, from the mid-19th century Middle East crises, examining different missionaries, their society’s worldview and their networks in various areas of the Middle East. In the early 20th century Christian missions increasingly paid more attention to organisation and bureaucratisation (‘rationalisation’), and media became more important to their work. The volume analyses how non-missionaries took over, to a certain extent, the aims and organisations of the missionaries as to humanitarianism. It seeks to discover and retrace such ‘entangled histories’ for the first time in an integral perspective." 

Contributors include: Beth Baron, Philippe Bourmaud, Seija Jalagin, Nazan Maksudyan, Michael Marten, Heleen (L.) Murre-van den Berg, Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Idir Ouahes, Maria Chiara Rioli, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Bertrand Taithe, and Chantal Verdeil

ISBN: 978-90-04-43453-0

ISBN: 978-90-04-39466-7

Encyclopædia Iranica Online Now Freely Accessible at Brill

Encyclopædia Iranica Online Now Freely Accessible at Brill

15 Feb 2021

Leiden / Boston / Paderborn / Singapore / Beijing

The Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University, New York, and Brill are delighted to announce that the Encyclopædia Iranica Online is now freely accessible at Brill’s Reference Works Platform. Encyclopædia Iranica is the comprehensive academic reference work dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

This new online version of the Encyclopædia Iranica offers corrected and updated older content as well as entirely new entries from the printed fascicles XVI/4, 5, and 6 that were already published by Brill. New articles will be added at regular intervals.

“The staff of the Yarshater Center appreciate Brill’s extraordinary efforts to make this new website a reality, and we look forward to working with our partners at Brill as we continue to expand and improve the content of the Encyclopædia Iranica,” says Elton Daniel, Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopædia Iranica.

“Brill is delighted to be the publisher of the Encyclopædia Iranica, which is the most important reference work in the fields of Persian and Iranian studies,” says Maurits van den Boogert, Publishing Director, Brill.

For more information about this media alert contact Maurits van den Boogert, Publishing Director at Brill via boogert@brill.com, or visit the website.
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About the Encyclopædia Iranica
The scope of the Encyclopædia Iranica encompasses the multi-disciplinary study of all the peoples speaking Iranian languages, wherever they have lived, in all time periods;  the reciprocal relations of the Iranians and their neighbors, especially those of the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, the Caucasus, and Central Asia; and the influence of Iranian civilization in a global context.  It particularly endeavors to include subjects such as Shiʿite studies, Iranian ethnography and folklore, the history of science, calligraphy, music, and the arts, as well as entries on books of major significance.
As an academic reference work, it seeks to cover all aspects of Iranian history and culture as well as all Iranian languages and literatures, facilitating the whole range of research in Iranian studies in fields ranging from archeology to the social and natural sciences.  However, biographies of living persons are excluded.  Entries, authored by the best available authority, are peer-reviewed and signed, include in-text documentation, and provide bibliographies appropriate to the subject.

About the Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University
The Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies was established at Columbia University in 2018 with the support of a generous gift from the Persian Heritage Foundation in honor of Professor Ehsan Yarshater’s remarkable scholarship and his lifelong dedication to the study of Iran’s culture and history.
The Yarshater Center aims to promote and to strengthen the late Professor Yarshater’s vision of Iranian Studies, encompassing a broad range of subjects in all periods and in a global context. As part of this mission, the Yarshater Center hosts special lecture series, seminar series, conferences, and symposia, and it produces scholarly publications, particularly two major long-term publication projects, the Encyclopædia Iranica and A History of Persian Literature.

About Brill
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in  Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Biblical and Religious Studies, Languages & Linguistics, Literature & Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Biology, Education, Social Sciences and International Law. With offices in Leiden (NL), Boston (US), Paderborn (GER), Singapore (SG) and Beijing (CN), Brill today publishes over 300 journals and close to 1,400 new books and reference works each year, available in print and online. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information, please visit brill.com.

 

Open Access E-Book: Qur’ans of the Umayyads

Qur’ans of the Umayyads 

Author: François Déroche

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2014]

Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume: 1 

"For the first time, the dramatic changes the Qur’anic code underwent during the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished. In Qur’ans of the Umayyads, François Déroche offers a chronology of the various developments which marked the period, in an approach combining philology, art history, codicology and palaeography. The conclusions he reaches challenge the traditional account about the writing down of the Qur’an and throw a new light on the role of the Umayyads in its handwritten diffusion." 

E-Book (PDF) 

ISBN: 9789004261853
ISBN: 9789004255654