Call for Applications:
The National Library of Israel is excited to invite applications to the upcoming workshop:
“Islamic Codicology and Paleography: Between the Material and the Digital.”
The past decade has witnessed new directions in research on Islamic manuscripts.
On the one hand, scholars are applying the techniques, methodologies, and insights of biochemistry, optics, physics, and other fields to identify, date, and analyze Islamic manuscripts’ material aspects: paper, parchment, bindings, inks, and more. At the same time, the tools of digital humanities, including digitization, text recognition, and data analysis, have created new ways to study and present manuscripts at institutions around the world. Together, these methods are enabling new discoveries in the social, religious, and cultural history of Islamic civilization.
The workshop will provide an intensive introduction to the study of Islamic manuscripts with an emphasis on these methods and tools.
Intended for MA and PhD students, as well as faculty, the workshop will include both lectures by internationally renowned experts and hands-on trainings with items from the Library’s rich collection of more than 2,500 Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts. The workshop is one of a series of events marking one hundred years since the founding of the Library’s Islam and Middle East Collection.