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...
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...
We are eager to think together about the rich and often
challenging complexities that have arisen as a result of the
intersection of Medieval Studies and Ethiopian Studies over the
past several years. These fields developed along very
different...
