Convenor: Project team "Nomads' Manuscripts Landscape"
This webinar series explores the role of manuscripts as part of the FWF START project NomansLand and is designed to address the history of Iran and Central Asia seen from the prism of manuscript production and circulation. We are particularly interested in the ways in which manuscripts can alert us to previously under explored aspects of the cultural, intellectual, and political heritage of this region, especially with respect to the relationship between nomadic rulers and the sedentary elite of Ilkhanid Iran and Central Asia.
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Six lectures have been scheduled throughout the academic year 2024–2025.
They are free of charge, but registration will be required and registration will be announced for each lecture:
29 October 2024, 5 pm
Transitioning out of the Timurid period: the origins of Abū’l-Khairid arts of the book ca. 1490–1520
Jaimee Comstock-Skipp | University of Oxford
12 November 2024, 5 pm
Safekeeping Ancient Knowledge: The Life Journey of a Medieval Mathematical Manuscript from Ilkhanid Maragha to Safavid Iran
Mahdieh Tavakol | Freie Universität Berlin
10 December 2024, 5 pm
Alevi and Bektashi Manuscript Traditions: A methodological overview
Zeynep Oktay | Boğaziçi University
18 February 2025, 5 pm
Unveiling Forgotten Verses: A Study of Ḥusām al-Dīn Khūyī's Works in the Tübingen Manuscript
Dr. András Barati | IMAFO, Austrian Academy of Sciences
25 March 2025, 5 pm
A Sufi Mathnavī from the Golden Horde: The Case Study of the Qalandar-nāma (Ms. Tashkent 11668)
Andrea Amato | Fondazione per le scienze religiose Giovanni XXIII (Fscire)
22 April 2025, 5 pm
Sacha Alsancakli | Universität Münster
For past lectures from the academic years 2021-22, including abstracts and recordings, please see https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsarchiv/webinar-series-pre-modern-islamic-manuscripts-2021-22
For past lectures from the academic years 2022-23, including abstracts and recordings, please see https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsarchiv/webinar-series-pre-modern-islamic-manuscripts-2022-23