The title of Ferdinand Céline’s novel resumes the fate of the
Saadian sultans’ library and the premonitory curiosity its founder,
Aḥmad al-Manṣūr, is said to have had for the palace Philip II of
Spain was building in the El Escorial. Over the
last...
My work on the lexicon of the Quran stems from my interest in
contact between Aramaic and Arabic. A question to ask is: ‘What has
the Quran contributed to the lexicon of Arabic? And what are its
sources?’ Using the Tanzil.net digital Uthmani text of...
Mathew Barber (The Aga Khan University,
KITAB), Lorenz Nigst (The Aga Khan
University, KITAB), Sarah Bowen
Savant (The Aga Khan
University-ISMC), Peter Verkinderen (The
Aga Khan University, KITAB).
Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of
Historical...
The Syriac Bible (specifically the New Testament) was first
printed in Europe in the Early Modern period. The protagonists were
European humanists who saw in Syriac holy symbolism. Its closeness
to Hebrew gave them the illusion that they can use it...
