Fri 04 Dec 2020

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

Making a Hidden Collection Visible: Columbia’s Collection of Muslim World Manuscripts, the new special issue of the journal Philological Encounters, consists of the following articles:

Making a Hidden Collection Visible: Columbia’s Collection of Muslim World Manuscripts by Zeinab Azarbadegan and Mohammad Sadegh Ansari

A History of the Muslim World Manuscript Collection at the Columbia University Libraries by Kaoukab Chebaro and Jane Rodgers Siegel

On Original and “Originals”: The “Copy” of the Tashkent Qurʾān Codex in the Rare Collection Books at the Butler Library by Avinoam Shalem

Mathematical Philology in the Treatise on Double False Position in an Arabic Manuscript at Columbia University by Alexandre M. Roberts

Authoring and Publishing in the Age of Manuscripts: the Columbia University Copy of an Ottoman Compendium of Sciences with Marginal Glossing by A. Tunç Şen

On Void and the Plausibility of the Copernican Paradigm: an Indo-Persian Link in the Qajar Reception of Modern Astronomy by Trevor Brabyn and Mohammad Sadegh Ansari

The World-Revealing Goblet: Reading Farhād Mirza’s Geographical Treatise Jām-i Jam as a Lithograph by Zeinab Azarbadegan

Afterword by Marwa Elshakry

The journal Philological Encounters (PHEN) is dedicated to a historical and philosophical critique of philology and promotes critical and comparative perspectives with the aim of integrating textual scholarship and the study of language from across the world.

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Philological Encounters welcomes innovative and critical contributions in the form of articles as well as review articles of usually two to three related books, preferably from different disciplines. It is open to contributions from all disciplines studying the history of textual practices, hermeneutics, philology, philological controversies, or the global history of writing, archiving, tradition-making and publishing. An overview of previous issues and a more detailed overview of the submission process can be found on the journal's webpage.

Risālat Ibn al-Hāʾim fil-ḥisāb, MS Or 305, Columbia University: Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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