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Official account of the DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group TRANSLAPT (2022-2028) at @uni_muenster.

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the lecture and discussion, the event concluded with a joint visit to the local restaurant Pinkus Müller.

This is the link to the profile page:
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Lecture on the Astronomical Dialogue of Mongol Eurasia
On 28 July, Yoichi Isahaya (Hokkaido University) gave a guest lecture on the astronomical dialogue of Mongol Eurasia in Münster. In the lecture, he discussed the relationship between Islamicate astronomy and ...

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yet, this reflected not an instance of failure but a specific type of cultural policy pursued by the Mongol Empire. After ...

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provided a stimulating scholarly environment in which exchanges with colleagues and fellow researchers may arise, sometimes quite unexpectedly.

This is the link to the library's website:
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Research at the British Library

This week, Philip Bockholt has been conducting research at the British Library on Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Chagatai texts. His work focuses on manuscripts dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, including ...

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the Persian hagiographical work Ṣafvat al-ṣafā and an autograph manuscript by the Mughal princess Jahānārā Begum. The visit has offered an invaluable opportunity to engage with the British Library’s outstanding manuscript collections and research facilities. It has also ...

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supplements alongside commentary, translation, and other forms of textual modification, it offers a renewed understanding of dhayls as cultural and historical phenomena.

This is the link to the publication: https://t.co/F2AsACgUQ4

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Newly Published: Texts as Living Objects

Published by Brill (Leiden and Boston), "Texts as Living Objects: Dhayls and Knowledge Transmission in the Islamic World", edited by Sacha Alsancakli and Philip Bockholt, brings together nine studies on dhayls (supplements) and ...

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textual transmission across the Islamic world. Covering Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Samaritan Hebrew materials, the volume explores how texts were expanded, adapted, and reinterpreted across regions and centuries. By considering ...

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entitled “Whales in the Islamic Encyclopaedic Tradition: Depictions in Qazwīnī’s Wonders of Creation across Languages.”

This is the link to the event page: https://t.co/xolkaPfFZN

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The International Medieval Congress in Leeds

This week, Philip Bockholt participated in the International Medieval Congress (IMC) in Leeds, United Kingdom, Europe’s largest forum for sharing ideas in medieval studies. Drawing medievalists from more than 60 countries, the ...

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IMC features over 2,000 individual papers, as well as public concerts, performances, excursions, book fairs, and more. Together with Marie Jaros (Halle), he co-organised two panels on “Whales in the Middle Ages” and gave a paper ...

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engagement with Chagatai as an important part of the multilingual mosaic of Western and Central Asia during the early modern period.

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Concluding the Chagatai Reading Course

After a week of lectures and discussions on diverse Chagatai (or Türkī) materials, the Chagatai Reading Course, which took place in Münster last week, came to an end. Bringing together five instructors, thirteen participants, and ...

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medical and talismanic treatises, and craft manuals. With the conclusion of this event, the TRANSLAPT team looks forward to future activities and continued ...

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Chinese and Sogdian loan words in Middle Turkic languages and OCR of historical Tatar newspapers.

This is the link to László Károly's profile page: https://t.co/efEOnFM9Gl

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History and Medicine

On Friday, 3 July, László Károly, professor in Turkic languages at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, concluded the Chagatai reading course with an exploration of historical and medical texts. More specifically, he guided ...

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the students through a selection of Abū’l-Ġāzī Khān’s Şajara-i Türk and an anonymous Risālā-i Şifāʾ al-Abdān, hereby focusing on issues of historical philology, contact linguistics and lexicography. In the afternoon, three students presented their research on ...