UCL Qatar Symposium on Living Arabic Script Manuscript Cultures

Simultaneous Translation Arabic to English and English to Arabic Provided throughout the Symposium

Day One

Monday, 15 April 2019

8:30 Registration

8:45 Welcome from UCL Qatar Director, Dr Sam Evans

9:00 First Keynote Address

Khalid Zahri, Royal Library, Kingdom of Morocco

The Culture of Illumination in the Arab Manuscript-Book: A Reading of the Outer Form and Inner Text [In Arabic]

9:45 Panel 1: Manuscript Cultures Today

Mahmoud Masri, Fatih Sultan Mehmet University, Turkey

The spread of manuscript culture in the last decade: From Aleppo to Istanbul [ In Arabic]

Sani Yakubu Adam, Bayero University, Nigeria

The Pervasiveness of the Manuscript Culture in the Print Age: A Case Study of Some

Selected Manuscripts of Shaykh Abubakar Atiq [In English]

Group Discussion: What is the state of Arabic script Manuscript Studies Today?

11:35 LUNCH and PRAYER BREAK

12:30 Panel 2: Manuscript Libraries

Akram Habibulla, Indiana University, USA

Muḥammad Parsa’s (d. 822/1420) library and manuscript culture of Bukhārā [In English]

Sahibe Alam Azami Nadwi, Hassan Bin Mohammed Centre for Historical Studies, Qatar

Rare Arabic Manuscripts in the Libraries of India [In Arabic]

Ibrahime Mansari, Mohammed V University Rabat, Morocco

The situation of manuscripts in Guinea: means of preservation and routes of travel [ In

Arabic]

14:00 Panel 3: Digitization, Technology and Access to Manuscripts

Abdulbasit Kassim, Rice University, USA

From Lawḥ to Raqmiyyāt: The Ethics of Reading Nigeria’s Arabic and Islamic Manuscripts in

“Devotional” and “Didactic” Libraries [In English]

Said Ennahid, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco

Manuscript Collections at Public Libraries in Morocco: Review and Assessment of Recent

Digitization Programs [In English]

Moulay M’hammed, The African University of Adrar, Algeria

Applications of Information technology for manuscripts in Algerian universities [In Arabic]

DAY TWO

Tuesday, 16 April 2019

9:00 Second Keynote Address

Annabel T. Gallop, The British Library, UK

Unity In Diversity: The Art of The Qur’an in The Islamic World [In English]

9:45 Panel 1: The Culture of Manuscripts, Manuscripts of Culture

Idham Hanash, The World Islamic Science and Education University, Jordan

The Cultural Study of Manuscripts [In Arabic]

David Owen, Harvard University, USA

Of Radd and Sharḥ and Ṭurra : The Long and Late Dynamism of Mauritanian Logical Manuscripts

[In English]

Rachel Engmann, Hampshire College, USA

Hidden Palimpsests: Unravelling Nineteenth Century Islamic Talismans in Asante (Ghana) [In

English]

11:20 PRAYER AND LUNCH BREAK

12:30 Panel 2: (Re-) Approaching Texts

Faissal Al-Hafian, Institute of Arabic Manuscripts of the Arab League, Egypt

The Culture of Comparing Heritage Texts: A New View [In Arabic]

Nobili Mauro, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Zachary V. Wright,

Northwestern University-Qatar

New Insight on the Timbuktu Chronicles: separating the 17th century history of Ibn al-Mukhtār

from its 19th century interpolations [n English]

Anne Regourd, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

The various lives of a manuscript: What can marginal notes on Islamic Ethiopian Manuscripts tell

us? [In English]

14:00 Panel 3: The Lives of Andalusian Manuscripts

Houssem Chachia, University of Sfax,Tunisia

Morisco Manuscripts in Tunisia: from the Dispersion of the Moriscos to the Dispersion of their

Manuscripts [In Arabic]

Abdelaziz Essaouri, Ministry of Culture, Kingdom of Morocco

The voyage of the oldest Andalusian manuscript on horses: From Marrakech to Boutilimit

(Mauritania) [In Arabic]

Rocio Daga-Portillo, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

Writing in Arabic after the Christian conquest of Toledo: Continuity and Discontinuity, a Portrait

of an Arabic Society in change [In English]