Nora K. Schmid

Postdoctoral researcher, Marburg University; Qur'anic Studies, pre-modern Islamic theology, Arabic religious literature and asceticism, confessionalism

[Feras Krimsti @FKrimsti]

@SAljoumani's and my study has been published by AUB press! It examines a collection of books that belonged to the Fattal family and addresses issues relating to waqf, the transmission of manuscripts, and the fate of the collections belonging to Damascene Hanafi scholars.

[Forschungsbibliothek Gotha @FBGotha]

Curious about the latest research on Gotha's Qur'an fragments? Join us for Alba Fedeli's Gotha Manuscript Talk: "Seemingly Identical and Seemingly Different: Archaeometry and Philology in the Exploration of the Gotha Collection of Early Qur’an Manuscripts" (19 March, 18:15).

[Sajjad Rizvi سجاد رضوي @mullasadra]

Happy to be co-hosting a wonderful group of researchers with an excellent line-up this summer

[Philological Encounters @PHEN_Brill]

"Using the Jesuit scholar Louis Cheikho’s (d. 1927) work on pre-Islamic and early Islamic ascetic poetry as a focal point, this article examines two strategies which contemporary and later scholars accused Cheikho of using to falsify the Arabic literary heritage. He de-Islamized

[Johanna Pink 🌻 @jabunna]

This Wednesday!

There will also be a hybrid option. PM me if you're interested.

[Library of Arabic Literature @LibraryArabLit]

The Book of Monasteries, LAL's latest release, tours readers around the monastic centers of the medieval Middle East. In this anthology, Hilary Kilpatrick translates al-Shābushtī's elegant poetry and prose revealing a glimpse of Abbasid culture through each site.

[Stefan Heidemann @StefanHeidemann]

Call for Applications
50% position for an Acting Professor in Islamic Studies at Universität Hamburg WS 2023/24 (Oct. 2023 to March 2024)https://t.co/DZKQndUqz2)
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[ISAR International @isar_int]

So honoured to have the incredible @RyadUmar of @KU_Leuven as part of our faculty! Quick now, only less than four weeks left! Apply online: https://t.co/mMpSyGUxz2

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[Forschungsbibliothek Gotha @FBGotha]

We are looking forward to the conference "Spread the Word. Books Printed for Arabic-Speaking Christians in the 18th Century", 22-23 June, at the Gotha Research Library! The conference is convened by the ERC project TYPARABIC, directed by Prof. Ioana Feodorov
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