The lost libraries of Timbuktu
One evening last week I happened to see part of a BBC4 TV programme, The lost libraries of Timbuktu: Aminatta Forna tells the story of legendary Timbuktu and its long hidden legacy of hundreds of...
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Critical edition of the Koran in preparation?
Ghost of a flea pointed me to jeff black, berlin, who writes: A page from a 7th century Sanaa ms. German researchers preparing “Qur’an: The Critical Edition” This is a serious business. A team of...
View ArticleIslamic medical manuscripts now online at the Wellcome trust
A correspondent directs my attention to an announcement by the Wellcome Trust. Arabic medicine was once the most advanced in the world, and now digital facsimiles of some of its most important texts...
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Ibn Abi Usaibia – the GAL entry, and the manuscripts
I have finally managed to find some hard information on Ibn Abi Usaibia (translation here), the two editions of the text, and the manuscripts of both. What follows may be hard going; but it is almost...
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