A cooperation between the American University in Cairo (AUC) and five academic institutions, including IAS, has seen a rare archive documenting the al-Khanji family's cultural impact on early twentieth-century Cairo transferred to AUC. The archive contains particularly valuable material for Islamic manuscript studies and provenance history.
Scribal Habits in Near Eastern Manuscript Traditions,
edited by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical
Studies, and George Kiraz past Member and current Research
Associate in the School of Historical Studies, has been published
by...
On the occasion of the spring meeting of the IAS Board of
Trustees in May 2019, Sabine
Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies,
speaks on the vast, global, and indispensable Islamic manuscript
tradition, a world heritage that is...
Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies, has prepared for publication and
introduced Materials for the Intellectual History of Imāmī Shīʿism
in the Safavid Period: A Facsimile Edition of Ms New York Public
Library, Arabic...
