Title: Introduction to Arabic Manuscript Studies
Institution: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Location: Remote; classes held via Zoom.
Applicants: “Graduate students, advanced undergraduates, faculty, and independent scholars with a research interest in Arabic manuscripts.”
Cost : $250.
Duration: Two weeks.
Description: “Sessions are held Monday–Friday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. CT, a total of 20 instructional hours. The course will:
- Introduce students to the study of Arabic manuscripts in historical, cultural, and material dimensions.
- Provide basic introduction to paleography, codicology, and philological practices, with a special focus on the application of these skills in a digital context.
- Engage with a wide range of scholarly reference tools for the study of Arabic manuscripts.
- Introduce students to a diversity of Arabic manuscript traditions from West Africa and the Middle East, both Islamic and Christian.
- By the end of the course, students will be able to contribute to the scholarly description of a previously uncataloged manuscript of their choice from the HMML collection.
Website: here.
Pictured manuscript: HMML AKDI 01664 0578 (MS578); 12th century Arabic manuscript of Adab literature genre, in situ at the Khalidi Library.