My time as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Trinity Longroom Hub, Dublin, has recently drawn to a close. This short post will compile the publications created during this fabulous year. Everything available online and open access, will be linked.
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Usually, posts are published on Sundays. This is an exception because today (when this is published) is my birthday. And I thought this enough to change the rule for once (and it’s more of a guideline anyway). In this post, we return to one person who has fascinated me for a while now and who has been featured here before: the Damascene book collector ʿAbd al-Salām al-Shaṭṭī. However, this time we are not just interested in his connections to Ibn Ṭūlūn manuscripts but rather in how he engaged with manuscripts for the sake of archival practices.
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