That is fascinating! #Qalamos, with its entries on text fragments from the #Turfan collection, is undoubtedly also an online resource for anyone interested in writing cultures along the Silk Road. The basic metadata can already be viewed, a starting point for those interested in #silkroad cultures.

🐬Taucht ein in die Welt der #Kulturdaten der #StabiBerlin: Bei unserem Datencafé am 6. Oktober bekommt ihr eine Einführung in die historische Netzwerkanalyse mit #Python. Alle Infos 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termin/daten...

#tbt to a piece by Chris Diamond, contributor for #DH in Indian literature and culture Do you like 🎙️ podcasts? Diamond and colleagues did one on the topic of digital repatriation. Here, he details the steps behind this work👇 #DHtools #DHinpractice #teaching digitalorientalist.com/2023/03/17/p...

We're delighted to be joined by fantastic colleagues, Jade Whitlam and @helengittos.bsky.social, for our upcoming lecture series for @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Don't miss this chance to explore this fascinating region & period! 🔗 bit.ly/SilkRoadslectures #skystorians #medievalsky #history

#Employment The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ) is seeking outstanding candidates for two postdoctoral fellowships focused on the histories, cultures, societies, and media of the Global South. mesana.org/resources-an...

#Employment The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a position in the field Modern Iranian History, with a particular emphasis on the period spanning 1700 CE to the present. mesana.org/resources-an...

📣📚New publication: S. van Haaren, The Digital Medieval Manuscript - Material Approaches to Digital Codicology, Brill (2025) ▶️ tinyurl.com/45vj7z23 #medievalsky #digitalhumanities

#Opencall Volkswagen fellowship “From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies” invites applications from scholars in research on Judaism and the Jewish communities of the MENA region from the early modern to modern periods. www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/volkswagen-m...

Erfolgreicher #Workshop unserer Orientabteilung in Kooperation mit der al-Furqan-Stiftung in London zur Einführung in die islamische Handschriftenkunde. 30 Teilnehmende & Referent:innen aus 18 Ländern kamen an der #StabiBerlin zusammen, um Vorträge zu hören & die Berliner Sammlung kennenzulernen.

Workshop at USAL in Buenos Aires On 30 September, Philip Bockholt will participate in the workshop "Tradiciones intelectuales en el Oriente Medio durante los períodos pre-moderno y moderno" at the Universidad del Salvador (USAL) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

When you discover exciting things in the old collection: a #Turkestani edition of Ahmed Yesevis Dīvān-ı Ḥikmet from 1900, which Martin Hartmann acquired during a visit to #Tashkent. حکمت حضرت سلطان العارفین خواجه احمد بن ابراهیم بن محمود بن افتخار یسوی halit.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/search?q=id%...

Join us for a six-week hybrid lecture series for @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, starting Monday 13 October. For more information, and to book, visit bit.ly/SilkRoadslectures #lifelonglearning #studyatoxford #medievalsky #skystorian

#Employment The Department of History at Colby College invites applications for a three-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East/Islamic history beginning July 1, 2026. mesana.org/resources-an...

🧵(1) The Porphyrian Tree is a logic diagram used to explain Aristotle's "Categories," as outlined in Porphyry's commentary the "Isagoge.” The tree progressively subdivides “Being” into genera and species, ultimately reaching “Man,” with the names of individual people at the roots.

In der #James-Simon-Galerie gibt es aktuell nicht nur die #Homebase, sondern auch die einzigartige Webkunst aus dem Ramses Wissa-Wassef Art Center Kairo, zu bestaunen (noch bis 2.11., Eintritt frei). Das SPKmagazin taucht in die Geschichte dieser Unikate ein, die Tradition und Gegenwart vereinen:

☕ #GutenMorgen! Unser Kulturprogramm der Woche: ☀️ Mo, 29.9.: Götz Aly: Wie konnte das geschehen? ☀️ Mi, 1.10.: Zwischen Identitätsfindung und Spurensuche: 100 Jahre Textgeschichte der Verfassungen der Mongolei Zum Kalender 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termine/ #StabiBerlin @crossasia.bsky.social

Fascinating event!😱 With its agent module called #name_authority, #Qalamos provides i.a. data on authors, copyist etc. and their relationship with books, places, institutions & other agents—functioning also as a platform for obtaining data for #historical_network_analysis! #digital_humanities #DH

Die 5. Muslimische Kulturwoche steht für Austausch und Verständnis – u.a. im Forschungscampus Dahlem! Dort lädt die Ausstellung „Dialog der Linien – Frieden durch Schrift“ von Haji Noor Deen sowie vom 26.9. bis 5.10. zahlreiche Events zum gemeinsamen Nachdenken ein.

#NewResearch #ArabicBible #OpenAccess @mmonier.bsky.social

Fascinating event!😱 With its agent module called #name_authority, #Qalamos provides i.a. data on authors, copyist etc. and their relationship with books, places, institutions & other agents—functioning also as a platform for obtaining data for #historical_network_analysis! #digital_humanities #DH

Explore some of the themes and speakers featuring in our six-week hybrid lecture series 'Silk Roads: Empire and Everyday Voices in the Medieval Islamicate East'... Starts Monday 13 October. For more information, and to book, visit bit.ly/SilkRoadslectures #skystorian #silkroads #studyatoxford

#FIDontheroad You are cordially invited to R. Zanganeh's roadshow on 20 October 2025 @uni-hamburg.de. #iranianstudies #roadshow #middleeast #MENA

Lernt das Portal unsere Fachinformationsdienstes #intRecht kenne. In unserem #Online-Workshop am kommenden Montag, den 29. September. Weitere Infos und Teilnahmelink 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termin/intre...

#Employment The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for an Assistant Professor in Hebrew Bible, tenure track. mesana.org/resources-an...

Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Kunst 🔎 Heute hat das belgische Abgeordnetenhaus das Gemälde „SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venedig“ von Friedrich Nerly (1807-1878) an die SPK zurückgeben. Das Gemälde verschwand nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und gelangte später in das belgische Abgeordnetenhaus. #LostArt

MESA condemns discriminatory travel policies targeting scholars. We are committed to opposing them and protecting transnational academic exchange. Full statement: mesana.org/advocacy/let...

The DO was created with the idea of brining to a wide audience developments and topics in the #DH worlds of Asian, N. African and Middle Eastern fields. It is currently the only platform that does so, as open-access resource. Support us

Since yesterday and for the next nine days, India and other countries have been celebrating the Goddess (and her numerous forms), whose victory is remembered on the 10th day. /1

Our “Document of the Month” series is essential reading for all who celebrate #MedievalMonday! Here Gabrielle van den Berg of @unileiden.bsky.social introduces an early Persian narrative poem about Joseph, his brothers & the temptress Zulaykha: bit.ly/JosephandZulaykha #Persian #Poetry #Documents

One more week to apply! Join our Grad School with a full scholarship in the Scholarship Programme of the German Academic Exchange Service: uhh.de/csmc-scholar...

Here is the link to the page for the #Max_von_Oppenheim #manuscript collection on the #Qalamos portal. There, you will find a brief introduction to the collection itself and the plans for its cataloguing and digitisation:👇 www.qalamos.net/content/proj...

@unierfurt.bsky.social is now accepting applications for Herzog Ernst stipends and Hiob Ludolf fellowships at the Gotha Research Centre in 2026. Applications close 30 September 2025. #AcademicSky #EarlyModern #skystorians

⚠️Nutzungsinformation⚠️ Am 18. + 25.9. finden zentrale #Wartungsarbeiten am bibliothekarischen Betriebssystem der #Stabi statt. Dies betrifft: 🛠️ StabiKat (Recherche und Bestellungen) 🛠️ StabiKat Classic 🛠️ Online-Bibliothekskonto Weitere Infos zu Einschränkungen an beiden Tagen 👉 sbb.berlin/p4r9r

Es geht los! Sie finden uns in der Aula an Stand 15. #Historikertag

#Employment The Department of Middle Eastern Studies at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Arabic Linguistics, with expertise in dialectology and historical linguistics. mesana.org/resources-an...

Are you working on a #DH related piece? Are there databases or tools that you think are great for research, but not well-known? The #DO accepts guest pieces on a rolling basis. Submit your work, and give your work visibility #submission #callforpapers #openaccess Link in bio

📢 Tomorrow the hybrid series 'Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents' gets started for a new academic year. 💻 Registration is essential: bit.ly/RethinkingHistory2526 📆 Save the dates for the 2025-6 programme! #archives #documents #skystorian

Good news at short notice: To mark the 7th Digital Humanities Day (DH Day #7) @ruhrunibochum, an interesting program will be offered tomorrow, September 16, 2025, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., on "DH @ MENA(-LIB.)" – a project and methods panel from the Bochum University Library and the FID Nahost.

What do historians, archivists and computer scientists have in common? They're all part of the exciting field of digital humanities. Our blog post explains how this collaborative discipline is using tools like #Transkribus to transform historical research. blog.transkribus.org/en/what-is-d...

🤝Lust auf #Ehrenamt an der #StabiBerlin? Wir freuen uns über helfenden Hände und bedanken uns bei denjenigen, die uns schon so tatkräftig unterstützen. Weitere Infos 👉 staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/die-staatsbi...

„3000 Jahre Aufgeschriebenes“: Heute ist dieser schöne Beitrag über uns in der Serie „orte des wissens“ auf @taz.de erschienen: taz.de/orte-des-wis...

On the occasion of the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag, we would like to draw your attention to a lecture by Dr. Anett Krause on Friday, Sept 12, at 2:30 p.m.: "Von gedruckt zu digital: Das Qalamos-Portal als Zugang zu außereuropäischen Handschriften": shorturl.at/mnRO0 www.dot2025.fau.de

The #Qalamos metadata includes not only those of MSS, but also of bindings and fragments. Such artefacts from the Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Foundation are currently being recorded, and a digital copy will be provided later. See the images below of two such fragments,

In good Company. Day 2 at #DOT2025 in #Erlangen.

Lingua Turcica Agemica is an edition of a Middle Azeri translation of the Gospels of Matthew and John from the end of the 17th century compiled by the French nobleman Balthasar de Lauzière in Isfahan. www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...

Centuries before modern linguists, Andalusi scholar Isaac ibn Barūn laid the groundwork for comparative Semitic linguistics with his pioneering 12th-century Judaeo-Arabic grammar. Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina introduces his work in our PhD Research Series: uhh.de/csmc-medina

☕ #GutenMorgen! Unser Kulturprogramm der Woche: ☀️ Mo, Di, Mi, 8.-10.9.: Kanon reloaded: Lesen zwischen Algorithmus und Vielfalt (Aktionstage #BreiterKanon) ☀️ Do, 11.9.: „Durch Urwalddunkel und Tropensonne“ – Katharina Heinroths Safari nach Zentralafrika Zum Kalender 👉 blog.sbb.berlin/termine/

SEPT 15 JOB DEADLINE: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY). jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...

In the following blog post, our colleague Dr Yoones Dehghani Farsani provides a brief account of the workshop on machine learning and artificial intelligence in Arabic and Islamic studies, that he attended in Hamburg in July. #Qalamos #AI #Digital_Humanities #Arabistik #Islamwissenschaft

Thinking about the uses of gen AI in research: When you start e.g. working on a new article but don't yet know exactly where you want to go and what you want to say, why would you rather play around with a chatbot instead of sitting down with a colleague to discuss your ideas? 1/n