Do, 16.05.2024 – 17.05.2024

Misattributions and Forgeries in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions

International Workshop

Misattributions and Forgeries in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions

The purpose of this workshop is to study misattribution of content in and forgeries of Middle Eastern manuscript cultures as intellectual history. This across-discipline workshop aims to cover manuscripts in various languages, including, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Syriac and Ethiopic.  The workshop is organized in the context of a multidisciplinary project Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions (MEMaT) (https://www.ias.edu/hs/islamic-world/memat) which aims at studying various aspects of manuscript production, utilization, and transmission history.

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DATE:
16-17 May 2024

VENUE:
AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Georg-Coch-Platz 2
3rd floor: Lecture Hall 3A
1010 Vienna

ORGANISERS:
Grigory Kessel (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Sabine Schmidtke (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
George Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton & Beth Mardutho)
 

CONTACT (for more information):

Dr. Grigory Kessel