Agenda
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mer13Déc201718h00IFAO - Le Caire
La recension la plus complète des Mille et une Nuits et ses manuscrits. Conférence d'Élise Franssen, sur invitation
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lun11Déc2017mer13Déc2017IFAO - Cairo
Workshop - Arabic Manuscripts, taught by Élise Franssen
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of Knowledge, Social Practices and Sensitive Approach", aims at giving researchers access to - and studying- an unpublished documentation.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
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lun03Avr201714h00-14h30Aix-en-Provence, LA3M-IREMAM, Salle Paul-Albert Février
Échange d'ambassades entre les sultans mamelouks et les rois d'Aragon au début du XVe siècle: de l'éthique à la pratique. Paper read by Prof. dr. Frédéric Bauden
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lun13Fév2017ven17Fév2017Manchester, John Rylands Research Institute
"A Holistic Approach to Islamic Manuscript Studies" - Masterclass by Prof. F. Bauden
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.
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jeu02Fév201718h00-19h30Manchester, John Rylands Research Institute
“Of Buying Many Books There is No End”: Towards a History of the John Rylands Library's Collection of Islamic Manuscripts. A Lecture by Prof. F. Bauden
Professor Bauden will be working with the Institute in January and February 2017 as part of the Institute’s Visiting Professorship Programme and on 2 February 2016 will deliver a Public Lecture details of which can be found below. The Lecture is free and open to all.
Rare are the manuscripts in Arabic script that do not bear a mark attesting to their past, be it a mention of the patron for whom the manuscript was produced, an act of pious donation, possession marks (handwritten or printed by means of a seal), loan statements, readers' notes, certificates of audition, transmission licenses, etc. Yet this is an area of research until now neglected. It is true that these marks, also called paratextual elements, are rarely mentioned in the manuscript catalogues, and even less in the editions that focus too often on the content, almost always overlooking the container. Thanks to these paratextual marks, it is possible to reconstruct the history of one manuscript in particular but also of a whole collection. The perusal of the collection of Islamic manuscripts held in the John Rylands Library yields several results allowing to reconstruct the itineraries followed by these sometimes multi-centennial objects, to identify the actors of their peregrination from the Islamic lands to their actual repository, and, in some cases too, to enlarge our knowledge of no longer existing Oriental libraries (private or institutional).
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dim29Jan201710h30Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire du Cinquantenaire, Bruxelles
Les manuscrits en écriture arabe : art, archéologie, culture de l'écrit - Conférence du Dr. Élise Franssen
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.
