Björn Bentlage, Orientalisches Institut,
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
A rare find from the late Mamluk period offers new insights into
the origins of a literary form and practice which, over the next
centuries, would continue to...
Join the Aga Khan Museum for a
virtual symposium celebrating the exhibition Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads, featuring
books, scrolls, manuscript paintings, textiles, and objects
spanning a 1,000-year history. The exhibition and symposium...
Join the Aga Khan Museum for a
virtual symposium celebrating the exhibition Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads, featuring
books, scrolls, manuscript paintings, textiles, and objects
spanning a 1,000-year history. The exhibition and symposium...
Ali Yaycıoğlu, Associate Professor of
Ottoman & Middle Eastern history at Stanford and a Visiting
Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University
(2021-2022).
At the center of this talk is a fiscal codex (defter), housed in
the Ottoman...
How did orientalists read, learn languages, and produce
dictionaries, editions, and other works? Annotated manuscripts in
particular offer a glimpse into the orientalist’s study, showing
the sources they...
Creativity has a history. It is hard for us to imagine that
people have not always experimented, tried out,
tested—sketched—ideas before putting them into practice. Yet,
that is what the record shows: in the visual arts, for example, the
medieval...