This afternoon (14h00 GMT) I will join a group of colleagues from @bl_eap to talk about our Endangered Archives Programme projects to digitize manuscripts and early Arabic print books in #Djerba #Tunisia and to introduce the new regional hub of EAP at the @AUB_Lebanon. Join us by registering at the link below https://www.aub.edu.lb/Libraries/News/Pages/Online-talk.aspx اليوم بعد … Continue reading Presenting our EAP Projects in Djerba: Join us!
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New Article on Omani-Ibadi Books in Ottoman Cairo | ظهور مقال جديد حول المخطوطات العمانية-الإباضية في القاهرة العثمانية
I have a new post as library director this semester, which has kept me from writing but before the New Year I wanted to share the publication of a new article of mine entitled "Omani Books and Their Maghribi Readers: Textual Exchanges in Ottoman Cairo" , which appeared this week in a special issue of … Continue reading New Article on Omani-Ibadi Books in Ottoman Cairo | ظهور مقال جديد حول المخطوطات العمانية-الإباضية في القاهرة العثمانية
“Manuscripts are like vampires” (article in History Compass, 2020)
A screenshot of my most recent article, "Manuscripts are like vampires" (History Compass, 2020), available online here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hic3.12626 I have been super busy with a couple of grant applications for the past two months and forgot to post that an article I wrote about the culture of manuscript rumors on the island of Jerba, Tunisia … Continue reading “Manuscripts are like vampires” (article in History Compass, 2020)
Call for Participants: Workshop on Ibadi Manuscripts in European/North American Libraries | إعلان بطلبة مشاركين في الورشة الثانية حول المخطوطات الإباضية: “المخطوطات الإباضية بالمكتبات الأوروبية”
Organizers of the second annual Workshop on Ibadi Manuscripts and Manuscript Cultures are delighted to invite proposals from participants under the theme: "Ibadi Manuscripts in European and North American Libraries." The deadline for proposals is 15 February and this year's workshop will be held 24-25 April in Lviv, Ukraine. Details are available here in Arabic, … Continue reading Call for Participants: Workshop on Ibadi Manuscripts in European/North American Libraries | إعلان بطلبة مشاركين في الورشة الثانية حول المخطوطات الإباضية: “المخطوطات الإباضية بالمكتبات الأوروبية”
Program for the Workshop on Ibadi Manuscripts and Manuscript Cultures 2019 | البرنامج للورشة الدولية حول المخطوطات الإباضية وثقافة المخطوطات عند الإباضية ٢٠١٩
We are delighted to welcome ten participants to Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane this Friday and Saturday (5-6 April 2019) for what we hope is the first of many paper workshops on "Ibadi Manuscripts and Manuscript Cultures." This event brings together specialists from inside and outside the Ibadi community with the aim of developing a … Continue reading Program for the Workshop on Ibadi Manuscripts and Manuscript Cultures 2019 | البرنامج للورشة الدولية حول المخطوطات الإباضية وثقافة المخطوطات عند الإباضية ٢٠١٩
Ibadi connections: Tripoli, Cairo, Baghdad, & Muscat during World War II | الروابط الإباضية: طرابلس والقاهرة وبغداد ومسقط في الحرب العالمية الثانية
As part of an ongoing project on the history of the Ibadi community in Cairo, I have been looking into the later life of the famous Ibadi activist, revolutionary, and diplomat Sulaymān al-Bārūnī. There has been some great stuff written on him in the past but most stories end with his death in Bombay in … Continue reading Ibadi connections: Tripoli, Cairo, Baghdad, & Muscat during World War II | الروابط الإباضية: طرابلس والقاهرة وبغداد ومسقط في الحرب العالمية الثانية
Sulaymān Bāsha al-Bārūnī: A CV in English | سليمان باشا الباروني: سيرة ذاتية بالإنجليزية
It's been a busy semester of classes and I haven't had much time to write. When I saw one particular document from the British Archives today, however, I decided to make time. The document in question comes from a folder entitled "15/3 Vol I XV - B/1 VISITORS SUSPECTS & UNDESIRABLES SULEMAN AL BARUNI AL … Continue reading Sulaymān Bāsha al-Bārūnī: A CV in English | سليمان باشا الباروني: سيرة ذاتية بالإنجليزية
Unexpected Connections: Musa Bey Grada, the Ottomans, and the Buffalo Agency | روابط غير متوقعة: موسى بيك قرادة، العثمانيون، ووكالة الجاموس
While working on an article on the history of Ibadi manuscripts at the Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale (UNO) in Naples, I ran across an interesting connection between that article and a larger project of mine on Ibadis in early-modern Egypt. Several of the UNO Ibadi manuscripts belonged to an Ottoman prefect in the … Continue reading Unexpected Connections: Musa Bey Grada, the Ottomans, and the Buffalo Agency | روابط غير متوقعة: موسى بيك قرادة، العثمانيون، ووكالة الجاموس
Upcoming Public Exhibition for al-Bāsī Library Project in Djerba, Tunisa: معرض مكتبة الباسيين في جربة
It is my pleasure to announce the upcoming public exhibition of "Conserving Endangered Archives in Jerba: the al-Bāsī Family Library Project" in Djerba, Tunisia, taking place this coming weekend on Saturday, 3rd of March at 17:30 in Houmet Souk. Over the past 6 months, our team in Djerba has been cataloging and photographing the manuscript … Continue reading Upcoming Public Exhibition for al-Bāsī Library Project in Djerba, Tunisa: معرض مكتبة الباسيين في جربة
New article in the Journal of Islamic Manuscripts | مقال جديد في مجلّة المخطوطات الإسلامية
I am hoping to have another manuscript catalog published by December but in the meantime, I wanted to announce the publication of my inventory of the manuscript library of Shaykh Sālim b. Yaʿqūb (d.1991) in Jerba, Tunisia. This rich collection is well known among specialists and my hope is that our efforts to preserve the … Continue reading New article in the Journal of Islamic Manuscripts | مقال جديد في مجلّة المخطوطات الإسلامية
Ibadi Studies | دراسات إباضية 