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 […]
Hinter den Kulissen: das Projekt „Orient-Digital“ (Ein Beitrag von Colinda Lindermann und Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf) Seit Februar dieses Jahres ist die Datenbank der Orientalischen Handschriften der SBB eingefroren: sie ist weiterhin zur Recherche nutzbar, doch es werden keine Daten mehr ergänzt oder aktualisiert. Was ist los? Kein Grund zur Sorge. Hinter den Kulissen wird fleißig weitergearbeitet, […]
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Scott Trigg Long before our current scientific understanding of the solar system, astronomers as far back as ancient Babylonia recorded observations of the night sky. In an Earth-centered cosmos, the entirety of the heavens seems to rotate around the stationary Earth in a daily motion of rising and setting. However, by observing […]
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