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Abstract An illustrated page preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has equally attracted and puzzled a number of art historical attempts at interpreting the texts and images found on them. It has been identified as the fragment of an …

Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and …

Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and …

Abstract With the launch of the Qalamos portal, the descriptions of more than 40,000 Islamic manuscripts from around 45 institutions in Germany have been made accessible. Supported by the systematic integration of accession data, manuscript annotations …

Abstract The early modern period was a pivotal moment in European engagement with the diverse literary traditions of the Islamicate world, and the languages transmitting them. Scholars, collectors, and printers actively sought after manuscripts from these …

Abstract A sober, reasoned list of what we need to make the most of Ebla texts, including new working tools (traditional and digital) and young researchers capable of a holistic approach. The question of full publication and open access. Minimum …

Abstract The theater, as a space where people speak to a collective body, is by its very nature a place where power is exercised. This tripartite power emanates from the text, the artists and the audience. It is within this three-tiered billiard …

Abstract The inventory of books in the library of Bāyazīd II compiled by ʿAṭūfī at the request of the sultan is a major witness to Ottoman cultural history in the sixteenth century. By crossing codicological and textual perspectives, the paper will seek …

Abstract Taking into consideration the trials that Mulay Zaydān’s library housed at El Escorial went through in the course of its history, we realise that it does not include all the manuscripts that belonged to the Saʿdian sultan. It should be remembered …

Abstract MS Or.5, preserved at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, contains a Safavid Shāhnāme dated Shavvāl 990/ September-October 1582. Included in Angelo Michele Piemontese’s catalogue of Persian manuscripts in Italian libraries (1989), the manuscript, …

Abstract It has long been recognized that sign language (i) uses the same logical structures as oral language (sometimes bringing out its abstract components), and at the same time (ii) makes more systematic use of iconicity. But the articulation between …

Abstract This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of a significant Qurʼanic manuscript discovered in the Geniza of the Imām Riḍā shrine in Mashhad, comprising 244 fire-damaged folios. The manuscript's colophon identifies its scribe as Abū ʿAlī …

Abstract The study of Medieval bookbinding in the Muslim world has come up against major methodological problems, but faces also (and perhaps because of these problems) a certain scepticism on the part of specialists in manuscript studies. The Escorial …

Abstract If we consider the role of the book as a communication tool, an analysis of its different materials and forms can reveal aspects of its use and function. For example, its dimensions and form can influence its mobility, its materials can affect …

Abstract Syntactic structures are complex objects. Obviously, there is no upper limit to the length of a sentence (we can't identify "   the longest sentence in French   "), but it's not simply a question of linear length (number of words). It's also, and …

Résumé La conférence portera sur le milieu d'origine de Julius Oppert, ses modèles convertis ou non et son arrivée en France ou comment un professeur d'allemand de province devient le fondateur d'une nouvelle discipline. Elle tentera de montrer les enjeux …

Abstract The question of how heritable mutations arise is one of long-standing interest in biology. In the case of bacteria, there was a debate about whether mutations arise as a consequence of adaptation to selective pressure from the environment, or …

Exceptionally, this conference will be held on a Tuesday. Abstract Here, despite the almost total loss of architectural structures, the remains of this temple have revealed the presence of abundant royal and divine statuary of various types and materials, …

Abstract AI progress is accelerating, and now the leaders expect "artificial general intelligence" (AGI) in 2 to 3 years. While difficult to believe, we must prepare for the possibility. We can take some lessons from previous episodes in which computers …

Abstract The line defects of three dimensional uniaxial nematics have a simple abelian algebra governing their interactions and so simply pass through one another. I will discuss, instead, biaxial nematics for which the fundamental group is non-abelian. …