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Spesialsamlingene
Seminar

Seminar on Arabic Manuscripts

The Special Collections and the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies organize a half-day seminar on current projects.

Arabisk manuskript fra Khartoum-samlingen..
Manuscript from the Khartoum Collection, ubb-ms-2199-kh-003-01-03, The Special Collection, University of Bergen Library.
Foto/ill.:
Manuskript- og librarsamlingen, UBB.

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Program:

12:00-12:05Welcome
12:05-13:15

From the MprinT project

Anne Bang: “MprinT Statistics.”
Kübra Nugay: “Evaluation of Fiqh Texts in the MprinT Project.”
Raphael Michaeli: “Mawlid Text and Practice in East Africa – From Manuscript to Print.”
Q & A

13:15-13:30Break
13:30-14:30

From the Library’s Special Collections

Marianne Paasche: “Progress work with the Sudan collection”
Khalifa Omer: “NRO: Past, Present, and Future”
Alexandros Tsakos: “The Salih collection, reference literature, and news from Durham”
Q & A

14:30-14:45Break
14:45-15:30

Other projects

Peter Good: “Jamshid's Cup: Persian Wine Culture in the Early Modern Indian Ocean”
Eirik Hovden: “On the early non-madhhab movement in Zaydi Yemen (ca 1400-1700)”
Q & A