Misattributions and Forgeries in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions
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.