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Your Middle East virtual library. Posts of the #Fachinformationsdienst #Nahost / #Specialisedinformationservice #MiddleEast at the Universitäts- & Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle Our homepage: https://www.menalib.de/
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"Maǧānī al-adab fī ḥadāʾiq al-ʿarab" by Louis Cheikho
[Bairūt: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Kāṯūlīkīya li-l-Ābāʾ al-Yasūʿīyīn, ca. 1888]
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🔎 Wir suchen zum zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine:n Fachangestellte:n (d/m/w) für Medien- und Informationsdienste - im Bereich Digitale Bibliothek 📍 Berlin ⏱️ 80% für zwei Jahre, Option auf Entfristung 🗓️ Bewerbung bis 22.03.2026 👉 Infos: www.swp-berlin.org/karriere/ste...
Die HU Berlin sucht für @nfdi.de 4Memory Unterstützung, um digitale #Forschungsdaten, Methoden und Community-Arbeit in den Geschichtswissenschaften weiterzuentwickeln:
www.hu-berlin.de/universitaet...
The image shows a poster which includes details of the call for papers for the DAVO Congress 2026. Full details of the call can be found on the DAVO website: https://davo1.de/en/en-call-for-papers-davo-congress-2026-10-12-september-2026-lmu-munich/
The #CallforPapers for the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) Congress 2026 is open!
Highlights include a conference keynote by Prof Abdel Razzaq Takriti and a featured panel on #AcademicFreedom and #MiddleEastStudies.
🗓️22 March 2026
➡️ davo1.de/en/en-call-f...
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"Resource efficiency gains and green growth perspectives in Kazakhstan" by Gulmira Ismagulova
[Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2012]
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#resources #efficiency #kazakhstan #economy #oil
*Trial Access*
AzerNews: nahost.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/azernews/
Respublika Armeniia: nahost.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/respubli...
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Die FDM‑Sprechstunde Humanities@NFDI bietet 2026 wieder monatliche Online‑Beratung rund ums Forschungsdatenmanagement – offen für Studierende, Forschende und Mitarbeitende. Einfach ohne Anmeldung teilnehmen!
Nächster Termin am 17.03.2026 - 09:00–10:00
events.gwdg.de/category/320/
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"Agenda for Armenian foreign policy for 2014-2015" by Analytical Centre on Globalization and Regional Cooperation & Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
[Yerevan: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung u.a., 2014]
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#foreignpolicy #forecast
*scholarship programs*
For doctoral researchers, the Herzog August Library—together with private foundations—offers a range of funding opportunities to support scholarly work with its collections.
Annual application deadlines: 1 April and 1 October
www.hab.de/doktoranden-...
*Stellenausschreibung*
Die MLU Halle-Wittenberg sucht einen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter*in (50 %, EG 13 TV‑L) im Bereich Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Bewerbungen mit kurzem Exposé sind ab sofort willkommen:
www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/DEZERN3/AUSS...
Join OTSA and 2025 OTSA Book Award Winner Nir Shafiir @nirshafir.bsky.social, University of California, San Diego, for “The Order and Disorder of Communication in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire" on Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register: northwestern.zoom.us/.../gfgCJM_L...
Join OTSA and 2025 OTSA Book Award Winner Zozan Pehlivan, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, for “The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century" on Friday, April 10, 2026 at 12pm CST via Zoom. Register here: northwestern.zoom.us/.../njl-VY-j...
Eine neue Ausgabe der #Zentralasien-Analysen ist erschienen!
Themen sind die politisch bedingte Emigration der pamirischen Minderheit aus dem Autonomen Gebiet Berg-Badachschan (GBAO) in #Tadschikistan seit 2022 und die vorgezogenen Parlamentswahlen in #Kirgistan Ende 2025.
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"Kritische Bemerkungen zur zweiten Ausgabe von Kasem-Bek's türkisch-tatarischer Grammatik, ... zur deutschen Uebersetzung von J. Th. Zenker" by Otto Böhtlingk
[St. Petersburg, 1848]
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The origins of comparative #Turkology
#Turkic
I'm pleased to announce the publication of my book Rethinking Islamic Modernism: Religious Identity and Community in Colonial North India, which came out earlier this year in the McGill-Queen's University Press series on Modern Islamic Thought, edited by Muhammad Qasim Zaman and Humeira Iqtidar.
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"Histoire politique, religieuse et littéraire d'Édesse jusqu'à la première croisade" by Rubens Duval
[Paris: Impr. Nationale, 1892]
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#culture #religion
*NEWS*
Die ULB Halle hat eine virtuelle Ausstellung zu ihren hebräischen Handschriften veröffentlicht – entstanden aus früheren Katalogisierungsarbeiten und nun endlich online zugänglich.
Hier zur digitalen Sammlung:
artsandculture.google.com/story/GgXRql...
#hebräisch #handschriften
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"Notes on the Bedouins and Wahâbys: collected during his travels in the East" by Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
[London: Colburn & Bentley, 1831]
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#bedouin #wahhabites #travel #tribes #arabs
Bahram Gur meets Arzu, the Daughter of Mahiyar (verso); Illustration and Text, Persian Verses, from the Shahnama of Firdawsi
Bahram Gur meets Arzu, the Daughter of Mahiyar (verso); Illustration and Text, Persian Verses, from the Shahnama of Firdawsi https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.387.b
Hebrew as the early modern gateway drug to Arabic: Franciscus Raphelengius reading a Qur'an by noting Hebrew cognates above the line in @ubleiden.bsky.social MS. Or. 251 (eventually a model for his Arabic type), fully digitised here: digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/33...
"In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dominicans collected rare printed books in Arabic, particularly Muslim devotional works . . . These books are slim and ephemeral . . . Most other repositories of rare books in the Muslim world don’t think they’re worth collecting."
Alle drei Bände können sind über die Fernleihe erhältlich: halit.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/search?l=men...
#NewPublication #OpenAccess #ChristianEast #ManuscriptStudies #BookHistory #ArabicBible
“Monastic Literature in Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai: Manuscripts, Scribes, Translators, Authors, and Later Readers”, COMSt Bulletin Special Issue, ed. by Adrian C. Pirtea
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"Handbuch der nordsemitischen Epigraphik nebst ausgewählten Inschriften" by Mark Lidzbarski
[Weimar: Felber, 1898]
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#semetic #languages #inscription
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"موقوفیت خاطرهلای - Mevkufiyet hatıraları" by Yusuf Akçura
[Orenburg: Kerimof, Hüseyinof ve Şürekası Matbaası, 1907]
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#russia #history #politicalprisoner
Cover. It shows an insight into a cloister vault.
The newest volume in our series Sense, Matter, and Medium: Visual Culture in Medieval Syriac Traditions. From North Africa to China, this volume showcases the breadth of Syriac Christian art and material culture.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...:
#MedievalSky #MedievalArt #GlobalMiddleAges
Today is the day! The story of Imad is now officially out in the world. So excited and humbled by all those who helped along the way. Link for ordering below 😍😍😍
www.bloomsbury.com/us/beirut-ra...
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"Politik im Namen Allahs: der Islamismus - eine Herausforderung für Europa" by Eberhard Seidel, Claudia Dantschke & Ali Yildirim
[Brüssel: Die Grünen im Europäischen Parlament, 2001]
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#islam #fundamentalism #europe
So cool that Besnik Sinani's monograph is now out with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, revealing a completely neglected side of contemporary Saudi Arabia.
brill.com/display/titl...
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"Die Ssabier und der Ssabismus" by Daniil A. Chwolsohn
[St. Petersburg: Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Akad. der Wiss., 1856]
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#german #arabic #persian #mesopotamia #sabians #histroy