What we do

Presentations and Lectures

Presentation of InterSaME project by Alba Fedeli in the Islamic Studies Lecture Series at AAI: ‘The Intertwined Wold of Oral and Written Transmission of Sacred Traditions in the Middle East (AHRC - DFG)’

Presentation of InterSaME project by Alba Fedeli at the Conference Recherches actuelles sur les manuscrits coraniques held at the Collège de France, 2-3 June 2022: ‘Reader Experience in the early Qur'anic Manuscript Page: Re-mediating their Texts in the Most Recent Digital Form as part of InterSaME Project’

Conversation with Shady H. Nasser on the history of editing Qur'anic manuscripts in Western Academia (recorded January 2022) as part of the resources of EVQ

Conferences and Summer School

25/09/2022, ...

30/08/2021 - 10/09/2021, Third Summer School in Islamicate Digital Humanities for Scholars in Manuscript Studies

The InterSaME project is hosting in Hamburg University a four-day summer course from August 30th to September 10th for graduate students and researchers who work with manuscript materials in Arabic script and want to learn how to choose tools and resources that are available to them and how to apply digital technology in their research. Detailed information can be found in the programm (pdf).  On Monday 6th September at 5:30 pm (CEST) Hamburg time, Maxim Romanov will give the keynote lecture of the 3rd Summer school in Islamicate digital humanities for scholars in manuscript studies. More information can be found in Prospocts of Middle Eastern Studies in the Context of Digital Humanities (pdf).

01/12/2020, The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism

Panel co-chaired with Shady Nasser at IQSA 2020 Conference. Papers by Hythem Sidky, “Consonantal Dotting in the Reading Traditions as Evidence of an Inherited Tradition”; Marijn van Putten, “The Ibn Mas`udoid Text Tradition in Early Quranic Manuscripts”, and Daniel Alan Brubaker, “A Variant Quran: Further Discussion of the Text and Special Features of MS.474.2003 and Related Fragments”. The complete programme is available here: https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/conference-schedule-5/

Papers

- 2022, September. Central European University, Vienna, Austria[1]

- 2022, September. Universität Hamburg (Project Workshop InterSaME)

- 2022, June. Collège de France, Paris, France

- 2022, May. DFG-AHRC Cooperation Conference, London, UK

- 2021, November. Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford, UK

- 2021, June. University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA

- 2021, June. Workshop “The European Qur’an” – Summer School, UIMP, Santander, Spain

- 2021, May. Year of Arabic Calligraphy, Ministry of Culture of Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

- 2021, March. ReIReS School on the use and study of special documents, FSCIRE, Bologna, Italy

- 2021, March. Cambridge Semitic Philology Seminar, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

- 2020, February. Casa Árabe and CSIC, Madrid, Spain

- 2019, December. Harvard University, Boston, USA

- 2019, October. The European Qur’an Project. Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale, Napoli, Italy

- 2019, October. Universität Hamburg. 26th International Congress of DAVO

- 2018, December. Leiden University, Leiden, Netherland

Publications

Alba Fedeli, ‘Digital Humanities and Qur’ānic Manuscript Studies: New Perspectives and Challenges for Collaborative Spaces and Plural Views’, Journal of College of Sharia & Islamic Studies, 38, 1 (2020), pp. 147-158, https://journals.qu.edu.qa/index.php/sharia/article/view/1595/1130

Alba Fedeli, ‘The Qur’ānic Text from Manuscript to Digital Form: Metalinguistic Markup of Scribes and Editors’, in Bradford A. Anderson (ed.), From Scrolls to Scrolling. Sacred Texts, Materiality, and Dynamic Media Cultures. De Gruyter 2020, pp. 213-245, https://www.degruyter.com/view/book/9783110634440/10.1515/9783110634440-010.xml