Paul Babinski @Paul_Babinski
I study the scholarly practices of early modern European orientalists. Assistant Professor, Department of Religion @universityofga uga.academia.edu/PaulBabinski Joined May 2014-
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Once a hub of Ottoman culture, Süleyman Efendi’s library was scattered by conquest. In our PhD Research Series, Rawda El-Hajji shows how tracing these manuscripts helps reconstruct lost communities and reveals the fate of cultural heritage in conflict: uhh.de/csmc-el-hajji
Early modern manicule left by an orientalist in a Bologna copy of Saʿdī’s Gulistān. It points to an Ottoman marginal note with the fifteenth-century Turkish translation (by Manyaslı Mahmud) of a passage in the Persian text. Bologna University Library, ms 3280.
My new article describing 14 'Qur'an manuscripts from Southeast Asia in German collections', published in the SEALG Newsletter (2024), is now on Academia academia.edu/127081918/Qura…
The three languages of Ottoman learning: notes on Turkish grammar (with the conjugation of "sevmek", to love) recorded by the English orientalist John Greaves (1602-1652) on the flyleaf of a Persian-language grammar of Arabic, also annotated by Greaves. Bodleian, ms Pococke 28.
Out now in OA: a volume celebrating (i.a.) the centenary of the East Asia Department at Berlin State Library! 🎉🥳 Incl. sth by Martina Siebert & myself on Sinica in Berlin in the 1680s, also two short pieces on contemporary "Chinese alphabets" and Lord's Prayer collections.
Out now in OA: a volume celebrating (i.a.) the centenary of the East Asia Department at Berlin State Library! 🎉🥳 Incl. sth by Martina Siebert & myself on Sinica in Berlin in the 1680s, also two short pieces on contemporary "Chinese alphabets" and Lord's Prayer collections. https://t.co/CqJ1drEyGU
1/I am delighted to announce that our Persian Lithography Seminar at the University of Toronto, hosted by the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies and supported by the Fisher Rare Book Library, will continue next year with six lectures by scholars and professors
Dr Majid Daneshgar’s new book, ‘Reconstructing Erpenius’ Library: The First Collection of Oriental Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library’ is now available! Our current exhibition, Endless Stories, showcases this incredible collection! 📕 🔗loom.ly/ABAkmrs
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT! On 15–17 January, the workshop "Empire in Translation: Perso-Arabic Knowledge and the Making of Early Modern Ottoman Civilisation" will be taking place at the University of Münster, which is the first of two workshops organised by the TRANSLAPT...
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One of the more famously messy note-takers of early modern Europe: Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614). Here, annotations he left in a copy of Juan Gabriel of Teruel’s 1518 Latin translation of the Qur’an (made for Egidio da Viterbo). Cambridge UL, ms Mm.5.26

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