Manuscript Studies from the Frontiers of the Islamic World

Date: May 18, 2021 – June 15, 2021

Venue: Online (via Zoom)

Organizer: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, UK

These webinars will be held via Zoom by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on selected Tuesdays at 5pm BST in May and June 2021.

• 18 May: ‘Untold stories of Maghribī Qurʾans (12th-14th centuries)’
Dr Umberto Bongianino, University of Oxford

• 1 June: ‘Worlding the Qur’an: A corpus of 18th-19th century Illuminated Qur’an manuscripts from coastal East Africa’
Dr Zulfikar Hirji, York University, Toronto

• 8 June: ‘The Sulawesi diaspora floral style of Qur’an illumination’
Dr Annabel Teh Gallop, British Library

• 15 June: ‘The Qur’ans of Harar: An Ethiopian manuscript tradition’
Dr Sana Mirza, Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Washington DC

Source: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies