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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

From 12–16 September 2026, Hicham Bouhadi participated in the summer school “Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources” at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in Amman, organised in cooperation with the University of Halle-Wittenberg, CETOBaC, IREMAM, (...)

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Iranian Studies Conference in Utrecht Last week, Philip Bockholt attended the Fifteenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference, held at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Organised by the Association for Iranian Studies, the conference ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Lecture on the Astronomical Dialogue of Mongol Eurasia On 28 July, Yoichi Isahaya (Hokkaido University) gave a guest lecture on the astronomical dialogue of Mongol Eurasia in Münster. In the lecture, he discussed the relationship between Islamicate astronomy and ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Research at the British Library This week, Philip Bockholt has been conducting research at the British Library on Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Chagatai texts. His work focuses on manuscripts dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, including ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Newly Published: Texts as Living Objects Published by Brill (Leiden and Boston), "Texts as Living Objects: Dhayls and Knowledge Transmission in the Islamic World", edited by Sacha Alsancakli and Philip Bockholt, brings together nine studies on dhayls (supplements) and ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The International Medieval Congress in Leeds This week, Philip Bockholt participated in the International Medieval Congress (IMC) in Leeds, United Kingdom, Europe’s largest forum for sharing ideas in medieval studies. Drawing medievalists from more than 60 countries, the ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Concluding the Chagatai Reading Course After a week of lectures and discussions on diverse Chagatai (or Türkī) materials, the Chagatai Reading Course, which took place in Münster last week, came to an end. Bringing together five instructors, thirteen participants, and ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

History and Medicine On Friday, 3 July, László Károly, professor in Turkic languages at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, concluded the Chagatai reading course with an exploration of historical and medical texts. More specifically, he guided ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Reading Vernacular Sources: The Crafts’ risāla On Thursday, 2 July, Jeanine Dağyeli, associate professor at the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Vienna and research fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, shifted ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

How to Read a Classical Ghazal On Wednesday, 1 July, Benedek Péri, head of the Department of Turkic Studies of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, guided the students through the difficult process of learning how to read and appreciate a classical ghazal, using ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Reading Chagatai Poetry by Navāʾī On Tuesday, 30 June, Marc Toutant, a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS/CETOBaC) and lecturer at INALCO, introduced the group to the text type of mas̱navī in Chagatai. Specifically, ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Reading Property Records From East Turkestan On Monday, 29 June, Eric Schluessel, Associate Professor in Modern Chinese and East Asian History at the University of Oxford, opened the week of lectures and working sessions with a presentation on Chagatai, or Türkī, as found in ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Preparing for the Chagatai Reading Course From 29 June–3 July, the International Summer Academy "Chagatai Manuscript Reading Course" will take place in Münster, jointly organised by Philip Bockholt and Jeanine Dağyeli (University of Vienna / Austrian Academy of Sciences).

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Participating in the Leonardo-Campus-Run On 24 June, Philip Bockholt participated in the Leonardo-Campus-Run, an annual sports event organized by the University of Münster, and was supported by the TRANSLAPT team. The run has been organised since the year 2000 and aims ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

5th Colloquium on Ottoman Literature On 18 June 2026, Kristof D’hulster participated in the Fifth Colloquium on Ottoman Literature (COL), organized by Gisela Procházka-Eisl and Ercan Akyol at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna. His paper, ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Workshop “Figures of Authority” in Tübingen On 15–16 June, Philip Bockholt takes part in the workshop “Figures of Authority: Argumentative Strategies, Exemplary Motifs, and Narrative Patterns in the Political Advice Literature of the Premodern Islamic World,” organised by ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Visiting the Bosniak Institute On 8 June, the TRANSLAPT team, together with Munir Drkić and Paula Manstetten, visited the Bosniak Institute and met with the institute’s CEO, Amina Rizvanbegović Džuvić. The Bosniak Institute holds a collection ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Research at the Gazi Husrev Beg Library On 5 June, the TRANSLAPT team used the opportunity to spend one more day at the Gazi Husrev Beg Library in order to consult manuscripts there. Accompanied by Paula Manstetten and Andrew Peacock, they also ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Experiencing Ottoman Heritage in Bosnia On Thursday, 4 June, the workshop participants were taken on a tour of important cultural sites related to Ottoman Bosnia, led by Munir Drkić. The group visited various sites in the cities of Stolac and Mostar, including ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Second Day of the Balkans Workshop On Wednesday, 3 June, the workshop continued with panels featuring a total of nine lectures. These lectures focused on multilingual manuscript collections and practices (Kadir Turgut, Josh Mugler), educational sources ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Meeting at the Gazi Husrev Beg Library On 1 June, the TRANSLAPT team began their trip to Sarajevo with an initial visit to the Gazi Husrev Beg Library, where the workshop on the Ottoman Balkans as a space for multilingualism will take place over ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Preparations for Workshop in Sarajevo From 2–4 June, the workshop "The Ottoman Balkans as a Space for Multilingualism: Actors, Practices, and Sites of Translation" will take place at the Gazi Husrev Beg Library in Sarajevo. Organised jointly ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Manuscripts on Ptolemaic Astrology in the Late Ottoman Empire and in Qajar Iran On 21 May, Nadine Löhr gave a lecture at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies titled "Vermeintlich unwichtige Handschriften: ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Tobias Sick Defends Doctoral Thesis On 19 May, TRANSLAPT member Tobias Sick successfully completed the defense (Disputatio) of his doctoral thesis. His thesis offers a comprehensive study of the translation history of the Persian Pandnāma-yi ʿAṭṭār, providing insights ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Presentation on Turkish Translations of Jāmī’s Forty Hadith Collection On 2 May, Muhammed Sofu took part in the Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Lanham (USA), organised by the Diyanet Center of America in collaboration with the Center for Islamic Studies (İSAM), ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Discussing Ottoman Translators’ Prefaces On 17 April, Tobias Sick gave a lecture in the Ottoman Translation Lab lecture series, organised by Marc Aymes (CNRS/EHESS), Natalie Rothman (University of Toronto), Henning Sievert (University of Heidelberg), and ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

On 16 March, Kristof D’hulster presented his paper “Language Matters in the Mamluk Sultanate, or what Turkic Had that Arabic and Circassian Did Not” at Wolfson College, Oxford, at the invitation of James White (AMES). The talk was part ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Student Workshop on Endowment Records Following the 17-session “Endowment Records” lecture series, organised in partnership between the FSMVÜ Center for Manuscript Studies and TRANSLAPT, a student workshop on endowment records was held on 28 March at FSMVÜ's Ayasofya Campus.

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Call for Papers: Workshop on Biography and Hagiography in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish From 17–19 February 2027, the workshop “Exemplary Lives in the Pre-Modern Islamic World: Biography and Hagiography in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish”, jointly organised ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Lecture on "Translation as a Cultural Technique" in Kyoto On 30 March, Philip Bockholt presented "Translation as a Cultural Technique" at the Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, Japan. His lecture dealt with translation practices within the Ottoman Empire, focusing on ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Workshop on the "Power of Patronage" in Tokyo Philip Bockholt participated in the workshop "The Power of Patronage: Translation and Multilingualism in the Ottoman Empire" hosted by the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) at ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

First Monograph of De Gruyter’s “Empires in Translation” Series Published (Open Access) In the monograph “Türkische Übersetzungen aus dem Arabischen und Persischen”—the first volume of the series ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Discussing Ottoman Translations in Indonesia On 10 March, Tobias Sick held a lecture at the Faculty of Islamic Studies at the Indonesian International Islamic University (UIII) in Depok, Indonesia.

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Interview at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”: Arabic–Ottoman Translations of Qur’anic Exegesis Philip Bockholt, project leader within the research project conducted by Ahmet Aytep at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”, gave an interview on ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Lecture Series on Endowment Notes Concludes The "Endowment Records" lecture series, organised by the FSM Center for Manuscript Studies in collaboration with TRANSLAPT, has successfully concluded. Over the course of 17 engaging sessions, the programme brought together ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Workshop on Imperial Frontiers in Münster From 9–10 February, Philip Bockholt participated in the workshop "Imperial Frontiers – Local and Global Entanglements", organised by the "Centre for Empire Studies. (Post)colonial Histories and Global Entanglements" (CES), an

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Philip Bockholt Discusses Translation on NADAW Podcast Recently, Philip Bockholt was interviewed on the podcast “News of the Ancient World” (NADAW), hosted by the Center for History and Culture of the Eastern Mediterranean (GKM) at the University of Münster. In the interview,...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

New publication by Kristof D’hulster The latest issue of Mamlūk Studies Review features an article by TRANSLAPT team member Kristof D’hulster. In his “Qayt Sharīfī’s Turkic Class Notes and Tamurbāy’s First Arabic Scribbles: Language and Education at the Mamluk Barracks in ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Call for Applications: Chagatai Manuscript Reading Course Between 29 June and 3 July, the International Summer Academy Chagatai Manuscript Reading Course will take place in Münster. Organised jointly by...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Book Endowment Practices in the Islamic World from the Maghreb to the Safavids On 10 January, Kristof D’hulster gave a lecture entitled “Mamluk and Post-Mamluk Endowment Notes in Late-Mamluk Sultanic Manuscripts” as part of

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Interview on Cooperations Between Münster and Turkey Recently, Philip Bockholt gave an interview at the Asian Studies Centre of the University of Münster about the collaborations between Münster and several institutions in Turkey. Currently, TRANSLAPT works together...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Book Endowment Practices in the Islamic World from the Maghreb to the Safavids On 10 January, Kristof D’hulster will give a lecture entitled “Mamluk and Post-Mamluk Endowment Notes in Late-Mamluk Sultanic Manuscripts” as part of a public panel in the lecture series Yazma Eser Kültürü Atölyesi,

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

On 17 December, the TRANSLAPT team in Münster gathered for the last time in 2025 and reminisced about the many events of the past year. We look back on a wide range of activities, including a joint research trip to Cairo, several workshops in Münster and elsewhere, visits, work meetings, ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Lecture at Sinologisches Kolloquium in Bonn On Monday, Philip Bockholt delivered a lecture titled "Übersetzen als Kulturtechnik: Multilingualer innerislamischer Wissenstransfer im östlichen Mittelmeerraum (1350–1800)" within the Islamic world, focusing on the interactions and exchanges

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Lecture Series "Beyond the Codex" in Vienna Last week, Philip Bockholt contributed to the lecture series "Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures" at the University of Vienna, organised by Yavuz Köse, Gisela Procháska-Eisl, and Jeanine Dağyeli,

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

TRANSLAPT Book Series The @translapt.bsky.social team is proud to announce the launch of a new academic book series: Empires in Translation: Intersections of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish in the Eastern Mediterranean. Edited by ...

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Discussing Arabic Poetry and Translations On Friday, 21 November, Tobias Sick participated in the international conference "Poetry and Knowledge: The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Arabic Verse (1100–1800)", taking place at the University of Münster.

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Call for Papers: The Ottoman Balkans as a Space for Multilingualism From 4-6 June 2026, the international workshop “The Ottoman Balkans as a Space for Multilingualism: Actors, Practices, and Sites of Translation” will take place at the Gazi Husrev-beg Library in Sarajevo.

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Conference "Imagining Nordic Paganism" On 6–7 November, Philip Bockholt will participate in the conference "Imagining Nordic Paganism: Cultural Memories and Scholarly Thought since the Middle Ages," organised by Roland Scheel and Simon Hauke of the Institute of Scandinavian Studies at Münster Uni.

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TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

"Marginal Matters: Explorations into Commenting and Glossing Techniques in Arabic Manuscript Cultures“ edited by Stefanie Brinkmann For centuries, scribes and users have left notes in the margins of manuscripts, paraphrasing, explaining, criticising, and seeks to establish the study of commentary

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