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Subject: Islamic Manuscript Conference
The Islamic Manuscript Association is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its Ninth Annual Islamic Manuscript Conference, 'Manuscripts of the Mamluk Sultanate and Its Contemporaries', 2-4 September at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Registrations may be made online in English or Arabic at the following addresses: English: <URL:http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/conferences/2013Conference/ApplicationForm1.aspx> Arabic: <URL:http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/conferences/2013Conference/ApplicationForm1_ar.aspx> For more information, please contact the Association's office at admin<-at->islamicmanuscript<.>org. Programme (also available at <URL:http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/conferences/2013Conference/ConferenceProgramme.htm> Programme of the Ninth Islamic Manuscript Conference Monday 2 September 2013 7-45-8.45 Breakfast (in the Gallery) 9-00-10.30 Registration (in the Foyer and Garden Room) Refreshments (Gallery) 10-30-11.00 Welcoming Speeches (Auditorium) Prof. Abdussamad Antonio Romero Roman Chairman, The Islamic Manuscript Association and Founder and Director, Azzagra Cultural Foundation and Alqueria de Rosales Mr Davidson MacLaren Executive Director The Islamic Manuscript Association Cambridge, United Kingdom and Director Emeritus Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation and Dar al-Kutub Manuscript Project Cairo, Egypt Mr Paul Hepworth Independent Manuscript Conservator Istanbul, Turkey Panel 1 Manuscripts of the Mamluks and Their Contemporaries, Part 1 (Auditorium) 11-00-11.30 Prof. Frederic Bauden Professor of Arabic Language and Islamic Studies, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium Manuscript Paper Formats of the Mamluk Period: The Contribution of Mamluk Chancery Paper 11-30-12.00 Dr Muhammad Issa Al-Sharafeen Associate Professor Al al-Bayt University Irbid, Jordan The Copyist in the Mamluk Period 12-00-12.30 Dr Ronny Vollandt Researcher, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany Making Quires Speak: MS Paris-BNF Arabic 1 and a Coptic-Muslim Workshop in Early Ottoman Cairo 12-30-13.45 Lunch in the Gallery Panel 2 Manuscripts of the Mamluks and Their Contemporaries Part 2 (in the Auditorium) 14-00-14.30 Dr Elise Franssen Post-Doctoral Fellow Annemarie Schimmel College University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany and Scientific Collaborator Department of Arabic Language and Islamic Studies University of Liege, Liege, Belgium As-Safadi: His Personality, Methodology, and Literary Tastes Approached Through His Tadhkirah 14-30-15.00 Dr Housni Alkhateeb Shehada Lecturer Department of Middle East Studies Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Jerusalem) Illustrated Mamluk Treatises of Veterinary Medicine 15-00-15.30 Mr Christopher Braun PhD Candidate The Warburg Institute School of Advanced Study University of London London, United Kingdom In Search of Buried Riches: Arabic Manuscripts on Treasure Hunting in Medieval Islamic Egypt 15-30-16.00 Refreshments in the Gallery Panel 3 Manuscripts of the Mamluks and Their Contemporaries, Part 3 (Auditorium) 16-00-16.30 PD Dr Tobias Nunlist Privatdozent Department of Middle Eastern Studies University of Basel Switzerland Amuletic Scrolls of High Quality from the Muslim Cultural Area (13th-17th Centuries): A Typological Approach 16-30-17.00 Mr Osamu Otsuka Research Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Tokyo, Japan A Forgotten Ilkhanid Historical Work: Abu al-Qasim Kashani's Zubdat al-Tawarikh 17-00-17.30 Prof. Anna Contadini Professor of the History of Islamic Art School of Oriental and African Studies University of London London, United Kingdom Mamluk Manuscript Painting and the Sulwan al-Muta' 19-30-20.45 Dinner in the Old Hall Tuesday 3 September 2013 7-45-8.45 Breakfast in the Gallery Panel 4 Conservation (Auditorium) 9-30-10.00 Ms Anne Bancroft ACR Senior Book and Paper Conservator Victoria and Albert Museum London, United Kingdom Conservation of Three Large Mamluk Book Boards 10-00-10.30 Dr Claudia Colini Independent Conservator, Rome, Italy How Conservation Can Unveil the Story of a Manuscript: An Arabic Unicum from Yemen 10-30-11.00 Refreshments in the Gallery 11-00-11.30 Ms Katherine Beaty Book Conservator Harvard Library Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts United States of America Treatment of Persian Lacquer Bindings 11-30-12.00 Ms Fiona McLees Paper Conservator The Imperial War Museum London, United Kingdom The Chester Beatty Library's Ruzbihan Qur'an: Uncovering the Techniques Behind the Creation of a 16th-Century Masterpiece 12-00-12.30 Mr Herre de Vries Book Conservator Restauratie Nijhoff Asser Amsterdam, The Netherlands Reading the Book's History: Understanding the Repairs and Rebindings on Islamic Manuscripts in the Vatican Library and Their Implications for Conservation 12-30-13.45 Lunch (in the Gallery) Panel 5 Digitisation (Auditorium) 14-00-14.30 Ms Elisabetta Polidori Morse Fellow for Advanced Training in Paper Conservation Boston Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts United States of America Ms Emily Jacobson Conservator of Paper and Photographs Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC United States of America Dr Blythe McCarthy Andrew M. Mellon Senior Scientist Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC, United States of America The Examination of Hidden Paint Layers in a Gulistan of Sa'adi from the Freer Collection Using Imaging Technology 14-30-15.00 Mr Qasem Harb Director, Archive, Arab Studies Society East Jerusalem, Palestinian Territories Digitising Manuscripts at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in East Jerusalem, Palestinian Territories 15-00-15.30 Prof. Amidu Sanni Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria The Sudanic African Manuscript Heritage from the Mamluk Era to the Internet Age: Challenges of the Digital Revolution in a Scriptural Tradition 15-30-16.30 Refreshments in the Gallery 16-30-18.00 Annual General Meeting (for Association Members Only) 19-30-20.45 Dinner in the Old Hall Wednesday 4 September 2013 7-45-8.45 Breakfast in the Gallery Panel 6 Cataloguing (Auditorium) 9-30-10.00 Dr Ahmed Abdelbaset Researcher Centre for the Study of Heritage National Library and Archives of Egypt and General Manager Project to Catalogue the Compilation Manuscripts of the National Library of Egypt Cairo Egypt Date Formats in Mamluk Manuscripts: Selected Examples from the National Library of Egypt's Collection of Manuscripts on Language and Literature 10-00-10.30 Dr Rayd Alrashed Assistant Professor of Arabo-Islamic Heritage College of Arts University of Mosul Mosul Iraq Mamluk Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Awqaf Library of Mosul: An Analytical Study 10-30-11.00 Refreshments in the Gallery 11-00-11.30 Dr Ahmed al-Sa'idi Research Professor Academy of Education and Training Agadir Morocco A codicological approach to a Mamluk manuscript 11-30-12.00 Dr Abdurrahman Yazici Researcher Research Centre on Religion and Nature Suleymaniye Foundation Istanbul Turkey 13th and 14th Century Fara'id (Islamic Inheritance Law) Manuscripts on al-Sajawandi's Kitab al-Fara'id al-Sirajiyyah in the Suleymaniye Library 12-00-12.30 Dr Konrad Hirschler Reader History of the Near and Middle East School of Oriental and African Studies University of London London United Kingdom Letters, Themes, and Sizes: How to Organise a 13th-Century Endowment Library 12-30-13.45 Lunch in the Gallery 14-00-15.00 Photo Panel 7 Manuscripts of the Mamluks and Their Contemporaries, Part 4 (Auditorium) 15-00-15.30 Dr Esra Akin Kivanc Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture University of South Florida Tampa Florida United States of America "Such a Qur'an No Individual Might Own": A 14th-century Mamluk Qur'an from the Mosque of 'Umar in Jerusalem 15-30-16.00 Mr Karim Ifrak PhD Candidate School Advanced Studies-Paris Sorbonne University Paris France Pages from the History of Mamluk Manuscripts: A Codicological Study of the Qur'an Manuscript of Sultan al-Zahir Baybars al-Jashnakir 16-00-16.30 Refreshments in the Gallery 16-30-17.00 Mr Bashir Barakat Director Department of Research Is'af al-Nashashibi Centre for Culture, Arts, and Literature East Jerusalem Palestinian Territories Manuscripts in Jerusalem During the Mamluk Period 17-00-17.30 Dr Alison Ohta Director Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland London United Kingdom Covering the Book: Bindings of the Mamluk Period, 1250-1516 17-30-18.00 Closing Speeches (Auditorium) Prof. Abdussamad Antonio Romero Roman Chairman The Islamic Manuscript Association and Founder and Director Azzagra Cultural Foundation and Alqueria de Rosales Mr Davidson MacLaren Executive Director The Islamic Manuscript Association Cambridge United Kingdom and Director Emeritus Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation and Dar al-Kutub Manuscript Project Cairo Egypt 19-30-20.45 Dinner in the Old Hall Charlie Walker-Arnott Assistant Director The Islamic Manuscript Association c/o The Lotus Gallery 33 Trumpington Street UK +44 1223 303177 Fax: +44 1223 302218 Mobile: +44 7711 391 940 *** Conservation DistList Instance 27:5 Distributed: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 Message Id: cdl-27-5-013 ***Received on Thursday, 4 July, 2013