This summer, I have had the chance to return to Djerba (Tunisia) and work with my colleague from Ibadica, Si Mahfoudh Dahman, on documenting part of another library collection there. This month has been devoted to the collection of a few dozen early print books in Arabic and a handful of manuscripts that belong to … Continue reading Modern Ibadi Books on the Move: the “al-Shaykh Mosque” Library in Houmt Souk (Djerba, Tunisia) | رحلات الكتب الإباضية الحديثة: مكتبة “جامع الشيخ” بحومة السوق (جربة، تونس)
Public Libaries & Archives
An Ibadi Tafsir at the British Library | نسخة من تفسير هود الهواري في المكتبة البريطانية
Last summer, in a series of email exchanges, colleagues Dr. Aurélien Montel (Maître de Conférence, Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès) , Mr. Soufien Mestaoui (Director, Ibadica), and Dr. Michael Erdman (Head, Middle Eastern & Central Asian Collection, The British Library) together identified an exciting copy of the Maghribi Ibadi tafsir, known as the Tafsīr Hūd … Continue reading An Ibadi Tafsir at the British Library | نسخة من تفسير هود الهواري في المكتبة البريطانية
2nd Workshop on Ibadi Manuscripts & Manuscript Cultures (Paris) | الورشة الثانية حول المخطوطات الإباضية وثقافتها (باريس)
On 17-18 June, we will hold our 2nd workshop on Ibadi Manuscripts and Manuscript Cultures on the theme of "Ibadi Manuscripts in European Libraries" at the BULAC (@B_U_LA_C) library in Paris, France. The event will be open to the public. في ١٧-١٨ جوان (شهر ستة) نجتمع للورشة الثانية حول المخطوطات الإباضية وثقافتها في مكتبة "بولاق" … Continue reading 2nd Workshop on Ibadi Manuscripts & Manuscript Cultures (Paris) | الورشة الثانية حول المخطوطات الإباضية وثقافتها (باريس)
Article of the Month & Interview with the Mediterranean Seminar | مقال الشهر ومقابلة شفوية مع منسّقيَ “المؤتمر المتوسطي”ـ
You can listen to the episode of "Let's Talk Mediterranean" here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ1rUS5HNsE An article of mine on Ibadi manuscripts in Naples published in Manuscript Studies in 2018 received the distinction of article of the Month (April 2021) by the Mediterranean Seminar, which is a wonderful community of scholars working on the Mediterranean. I … Continue reading Article of the Month & Interview with the Mediterranean Seminar | مقال الشهر ومقابلة شفوية مع منسّقيَ “المؤتمر المتوسطي”ـ
Special Issue of JIM on Ibadi Manuscripts | عدد خاصّ من مجلّة المخطوطات الإسلامية حول المخطوطات الإباضية
I am delighted to say that the Journal of Islamic Manuscripts has just published a special issue devoted to "Ibadi Manuscripts and Manuscript Cultures in North Africa"!
A surprising lithograph at the American University in Cairo | طبعة حجرية إباضية في مكتبة الجامعة الأمريكية في القاهرة
Unable to travel lately, I have been searching for Ibadi lithographs listed in research libraries online. .. I did not anticipate [finding] the former owner of these volumes...
Ibadi Manuscripts at the Dār al-Kutub in Egypt (Part 2, the Inventory) | المخطوطات الإباضية في دار الكتب المصرية (الجزء الثاني, الجرد)
Ayman Fuʾād Sayyid, Fihrist al-makhṭūṭāt nashra bi-'l-makhṭūṭāt allatī aqtanathā al-dār min sanat 1936-1955. 3 Vol.s (Cairo, 1961-1963). This is a brief follow up to the previous post about Ibadi titles manuscripts in the Dār al-Kutub in Cairo. I just posted a document with a full list of those titles from A. Fuʾād Sayyid's (1961-1963) catalog … Continue reading Ibadi Manuscripts at the Dār al-Kutub in Egypt (Part 2, the Inventory) | المخطوطات الإباضية في دار الكتب المصرية (الجزء الثاني, الجرد)
Ibadi Manuscripts at the Dār al-Kutub in Egypt (Part 1)| المخطوطات الإباضية في دار الكتب المصرية (الجزء الأول)
A couple of years ago, I received a photocopy of some handwritten notes on Ibadi manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library, the Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya (Figure 1). The notes are dated 1408/1988 in Cairo, where the copyist was sitting at the library with a copy of A. Fuʾād Sayyid's catalog of recent (between 1936-55) acquisitions … Continue reading Ibadi Manuscripts at the Dār al-Kutub in Egypt (Part 1)| المخطوطات الإباضية في دار الكتب المصرية (الجزء الأول)
Podcast Interview on “Maghrib in Past & Present” | مقابلة في سلسلة “المغرب في الماضي والحاضر”ـ
A quick note that a podcast interview I did while doing research in Tunisia last summer is now available on the "Maghrib in Past & Present" podcast. If you have not encountered the podcast series yet, you're in for a treat. It offers podcast lectures and interviews with emerging and established scholars of the Maghrib … Continue reading Podcast Interview on “Maghrib in Past & Present” | مقابلة في سلسلة “المغرب في الماضي والحاضر”ـ
Ibadi Manuscripts in non-Ibadi Libraries | المخطوطات الإباضية بالمكتبات غير الإباضية
Ibadi libraries, almost without exception, house non-Ibadi books. Sometimes, Ibadi-owned libraries held hundreds of titles by non-Ibadi authors and those titles far outnumbered the Ibadi ones. When an Ibadi manuscript appears in a non-Ibadi library, however, that is something to write home about. A manuscript from the El Trouk Mosque library in Houmet Souk, Jerba … Continue reading Ibadi Manuscripts in non-Ibadi Libraries | المخطوطات الإباضية بالمكتبات غير الإباضية
Ibadi Studies | دراسات إباضية 