Gastbeitrag von Dr. Ariel Malachi Introduction Zecharia ha-Rofé, a member of the Jewish community in Dhamar, Yemen, was one of the most important intellectual figures of the first half of the 15th century. His body of work reflects a unique blend of rabbinic tradition and philosophical inquiry, shaped by both Jewish and Islamic intellectual currents. […]
Als Gastbeitrag von Dr. Ercan Akyol: Auszüge aus seinem Beitrag im Blog des DFG-Projekts Qalamos The primary objective of my research is to contextualize Ottoman literary culture of the late 16th and early 17th centuries within its historical framework, with a particular focus on the functions of literature in Ottoman society, especially among the scholarly elite. In […]
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim The abundance of Muslims in their home region has greatly influenced their ability to conquer other countries. Their war science has been developing daily along with the evolution of weapons and their variety; what has been brought to us in this field is evidence of this. The great Islamic civilization has […]
Gastbeitrag von Mehmet Ali Doğan The Sachau manuscript numbered 304 has 195 leaves. The work is written in two columns in the Estrangelo script. Its beginning and end are destroyed due to a fire. The upper parts of the pages are especially damaged. The manuscript is preserved in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library), and […]
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Eric Schluessel The homeland of the Uyghur people now appears constantly in the news. This region in Northwestern China, called “Xinjiang” in Chinese, is a vast land of mountains, deserts, oases, and grasslands. Its autochthonous majority, known today as Uyghurs, speak a language related to Turkish and mainly practice Islam. Their homeland […]
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Güler Doğan Averbek Introduction Many of the libraries in Europe and America that have Islamic manuscripts in their collections owe a significant part of them to Oskar Rescher (aka Osman Reşer, 1883–1972). He was a global trader and broker of manuscripts, deserving the title of probably the most active trader of Islamic […]
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