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Thu 24 Aug 2023

Zukunftsphilologie

was a program initiated by Freie Universität and the Forum Transregionale Studien in 2010 and came to an end in 2023. It …

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Sat 22 Jul 2023

Philological Encounters, Volume 8, Issue 1

A new issue of the journal »Philological Encounters« has just been published.

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Tue 28 Feb 2023

After Wisdom. Sapiential Traditions and Ancient Scholarship in Comparative Perspective

The new publication of »Philological Encounters Monographs,« edited by Glenn W. Most and Michael Puett, has recently …

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Thu 01 Dec 2022

The Ascendant Field: Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature

A new special issue of the journal »Philological Encounters«, edited by Ghayde Ghraowi and Hacı Osman Gündüz (Ozzy), has …

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[Translate to Englisch:] Dīwān of Māmayya al-Rūmī, copied around 1700, MS Wetzstein II 243, fol. 1b, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK
Thu 02 Jun 2022

Philology and Microhistory: A Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg

A new article in the »Philological Conversations series« has been published on the TRAFO Blog.

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Thu 27 Jan 2022
Mon 20 Dec 2021

The Past and its Possibilities in Nahḍa Scholarship

A new special issue of the journal »Philological Encounters«, edited by Feras Krimsti and John-Paul Ghobrial, has just …

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Wed 01 Dec 2021

Heterodox Philology – Michael Allan in conversation with Gauri Viswanathan

First contribution to the new TRAFO Blog series »Philological Conversations«

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Wed 25 Aug 2021
Fri 04 Dec 2020

Making a Hidden Collection Visible: Columbia’s Collection of Muslim World Manuscripts

A new special issue of the journal »Philological Encounters«, edited by Zeinab Azarbadegan and Mohammad Sadegh Ansari, …

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Wed 24 Jun 2020

A new issue of Philological Encounters

Volume 5, issue 2 of the journal »Philological Encounters« has just been published.

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Thu 09 Apr 2020

Early Modern ‘New Sciences’: Inquiries into Ibn Khaldun and Giambattista Vico

A new special issue of the journal »Philological Encounters« has been published.

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Tue 17 Mar 2020

Early Modern ‘New Sciences’: Inquiries into Ibn Khaldun and Giambattista Vico

A new special issue of the journal »Philological Encounters« has just been published.

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Wed 08 Jan 2020

What was Philology in Arabic?

Volume 4 of the journal “Philological Encounters” was published recently by Brill Online.

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Thu 31 Oct 2019

Philological Encounters

A unique journal dedicated to the historical and philosophical critique of philology.

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Thu 26 Sep 2019

»Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War. Essays on Philology and Responsibility« by Hannan Hever

In the newest book of our series »Philological Encounters Monographs«, Hannan Hever examines the conspicuous absence of …

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Mon 31 Jul 2017

Entdecker der verlorenen Texte

»Campus.Leben« über die Konferenz »What was Philology in Arabic?« | »Campus.Leben« about the conference »What was …

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Mon 09 May 2016

3½ Fragen an... Ein Interview mit Islam Dayeh

ZEIT CHANCEN Brief vom 9. Mai | ZEIT CHANCEN Letter, 9 May 2016

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Wed 30 Apr 2014

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Philological Encounters

Zukunftsphilologie and Leiden University organized a joint international conference at the University of Leiden, 4-5 …

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