Agenda

During the Mamluk period, Cairo was renowned for its book markets and the richness of its public and private libraries. Book collectors, including scholars and prominent Mamluk amirs who vied to collect the rarest items, played a vital role in preserving earlier manuscripts and in commissioning the production of copies. Thousands upon thousands of these books later enhanced Ottoman and European libraries. Over the last century, there has been renewed interest in the history of the book, libraries, book-collecting, and reading in Islam. While several studies have been published, these focus on data provided by primary sources (chronicles, biographical dictionaries, treatises, catalogues of libraries, etc.), but largely overlook information supplied by the books themselves: ownership marks, reading notes, seal impressions, and so forth. These paratextual marks are now the object of greater scrutiny, as they constitute original pieces of valuable information on the history of the books. More than ever, these marks also give us the opportunity to analyze the itineraries of these objects. The Ex(-)Libris ex Oriente (ELEO) project aims to gather together as many of these marks as possible, in order to carry out various research projects in this growing field. The goal of this lecture is to present the database, the projects linked to it, and the preliminary results the project has yielded since the database was launched in 2015.

Organized by Dr. Elise Franssen (ULiege & Univ. Ca' Foscari ), Dr. Mathieu Eychenne (OIB) and Dr. Abbes Zouache (CEFAS & CIHAM)

The first research vector of the program "War in the Medieval Near East (11th-16th C.): Transmission of Knowledge, Social Practices and Sensitive Approach", aims at giving researchers access to - and studying- an unpublished documentation. It combines training, editing and analysing furūsiyya manuscripts whose dissemination is still poorly known.

In this program, manuscripts are considered as fully historical sources whose study should allow a better knowledge of the environment in which they were written, made and disseminated. Researchers aim at using all the information supplied by the artefacts and the documental notes that they contain. It is in this context that the first workshop "Arabic Manuscripts" is organized in IFAO; it will be followed, in 2018 and 2019, by two more specialized workshops focusing on the completion of a database and the edition of manuscripts.

This workshop aims at providing the participants with the basic codicological knowledge and at giving them the necessary operational autonomy required by their daily research. A practical approach has been privileged by the organizers: courses mixing presentation and exercises; specific hands-on sessions based on the original manuscripts preserved in IFAO.

Courses will be taught in English

séminaire 3 avril 2017

The John Rylands Research Institute Visiting Professor Frédéric Bauden (University of Liège) will be teaching a week-long masterclass on A Holistic Approach to Islamic Manuscript Studies.

L'asbl "Diffusion culturelle" des MRAH a pour but d'améliorer les connaissances des musées et organise chaque année une série de conférences destinées au grand public. Dans ce cadre, Dr. Élise Franssen prononcera une conférence au sujet des manuscrits en écriture arabe et abordera plus spécifiquement le cas du Coran des collections des MRAH dont elle a rédigé la notice de catalogue (références disponibles ici)

La culture arabe est très féconde en écrits : elle a donné naissance à d’innombrables manuscrits. L’importance du livre, et plus particulièrement du codex manuscrit, s’explique par plusieurs raisons, culturelles, religieuses ou encore pratiques, toutes passionnantes. Malheureusement, ces innombrables témoins de la culture arabe sont encore aujourd’hui peu connus. L’une des approches permettant de dévoiler des pans importants de leur identité et de leur histoire est la codicologie. Cette discipline, aussi appelée « archéologie du livre », a le vent en poupe. Quelques exemples d’études récentes montreront son importance et sa pertinence. L’enquête consacrée au Coran dit « safavide » des collections des MRAH en est un exemple éloquent.

In the frame of the V Congresso Internazionale di Numismatica e di Storia Monetaria, Prof. dr. Frédéric Bauden will deliver a paper entitled: The Islamic Coinage of Barqa from the Conquest up to the Advent of the Fatimids.

Programme of the conference

"Questions d'ecdotique et de traduction"

Quatrième leçon d'Élise Franssen, en tant que maître de conférence invité à l'École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris)

"Approche philologique"

Troisième leçon d'Élise Franssen, en tant que maître de conférence invité à l'École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris)

"Approches codicologique et paléographique des manuscrits de la recension égyptienne"

Deuxième leçon d'Élise Franssen, en tant que maître de conférence invité à l'École Pratique des Hautes Études

"Traditions manuscrites et éditions anciennes des Mille et une Nuits"

Première leçon d'Élise Franssen, en tant que maître de conférence invité à l'École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris)

Cours d'Élise Franssen dans le cadre du programme Erasmus+ pour les enseignants.

Lecture by Prof. Frédéric Bauden

Sala d'Actes de la Delegació del CSIC a Catalunya
Institució Milà i Fontanals
c/ de les Egipcíaques, 15
08001 Barcelona
Spain

A three-day intensive course intended for advanced graduate students, given by Prof. Dr. Frédéric Bauden (University of Liège) with the assistance of Dr. Elise Franssen (University of Liège), will be held immediately before the conference of the School of Mamlūk Studies. The course will be focused on manuscript studies. The course, intended to help students who need to work on manuscripts for their research, will provide them with the most important tools and methods to achieve their goal. Codicology is essential to describe a manuscript and to analyze its support, but it needs to be used with other disciplines in order to apprehend a manuscript (i.e., also its text) in all its complexity. It is important to note that this course is not just about codicology: theoretical issues will be addressed in the morning sessions while afternoon sessions will be devoted to practice. To this end, they will be held at the manuscript room, where the students will have the opportunity to work on a selection of manuscripts. A very good level of Arabic is required (minimum four years of Arabic at the university level).

Paper presented by Prof. Dr. Frédéric Bauden in the frame of the panel "Historians in the Pre-Modern Middle East: Their Aims, Techniques and Products" organized by Nobutaka Nakamachi and Teruaki Moriyama.

31st Annual Conference of the Japanese Association of Middle Eastern Studies

Lecture by Prof. dr. Frédéric Bauden

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Frédéric Bauden

Seminar held by Prof. Dr. Frédéric Bauden.

Intervention de Frédéric Bauden dans le cadre du séminaire doctoral Jeux et fêtes en Méditerranée médiévale.

Conférence de Mirella Cassarino, Università di Catania