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

Ottoman archival sources and opportunities for exchange with specialists in the field. For more details, see www.orient-institut.org/fileadmin/us...

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

a cultural tour of Amman, and a visit to the Center for Documents, Manuscripts and Bilad al-Sham Studies at the University of Jordan. The summer school provided practical training in working with (...)

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

SBÜ-Ankara, and OIB-Beirut. The programme focused on reading and analysing Ottoman manuscript sources, with particular attention to archival documents, and included several cultural and academic activities, such as visits to Ottoman sites in the city of Salt, (...)

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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

on the translator and the circumstances in which the translation was produced. This is the link to the event page: associationforiranianstudies.org/conferences/...

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2026 Conference information | Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) | انجمن ایران‌ پژوهی

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

titled “Reading Ibn Khallikān’s Wafayāt al-Aʿyān in Persian: Translation Practices in Late Fifteenth-Century Western India”, which examined the Persian translation of this important work of Islamic scholarship, with a particular focus ...

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

brought together more than 400 speakers to present research on the linguistics, literature, history, politics, and religions of Iranian and Persianate regions. Philip Bockholt presented a paper ...

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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

the lecture and discussion, the event concluded with a joint visit to the local restaurant Pinkus Müller. This is the link to the profile page: t.co/cZylo4rEub

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https://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/.../isahaya.../index.html

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

yet, this reflected not an instance of failure but a specific type of cultural policy pursued by the Mongol Empire. After ...

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

its Chinese counterpart, focusing on their intersections and cross-cultural influences across distinct intellectual traditions during the thirteenth century. As Isahaya argues, contact between these traditions did not result in the translation of astronomical works per se; ...

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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

provided a stimulating scholarly environment in which exchanges with colleagues and fellow researchers may arise, sometimes quite unexpectedly. This is the link to the library's website: www.bl.uk

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Welcome to the British Library

We are the UK's national library. Open to everyone and free to use. Explore our buildings, study, meet friends, attend an event and get free access to over 170 million items.

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

the Persian hagiographical work Ṣafvat al-ṣafā and an autograph manuscript by the Mughal princess Jahānārā Begum. The visit has offered an invaluable opportunity to engage with the British Library’s outstanding manuscript collections and research facilities. It has also ...

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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

supplements alongside commentary, translation, and other forms of textual modification, it offers a renewed understanding of dhayls as cultural and historical phenomena. This is the link to the publication: brill.com/display/titl...

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Texts as Living Objects

"Texts as Living Objects" published on 06 Jul 2026 by Brill.

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

textual transmission across the Islamic world. Covering Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Samaritan Hebrew materials, the volume explores how texts were expanded, adapted, and reinterpreted across regions and centuries. By considering ...

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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

entitled “Whales in the Islamic Encyclopaedic Tradition: Depictions in Qazwīnī’s Wonders of Creation across Languages.” This is the link to the event page: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk

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International Medieval Congress

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

IMC features over 2,000 individual papers, as well as public concerts, performances, excursions, book fairs, and more. Together with Marie Jaros (Halle), he co-organised two panels on “Whales in the Middle Ages” and gave a paper ...

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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

engagement with Chagatai as an important part of the multilingual mosaic of Western and Central Asia during the early modern period.

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

medical and talismanic treatises, and craft manuals. With the conclusion of this event, the TRANSLAPT team looks forward to future activities and continued ...

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

the TRANSLAPT team, the reading course proved to be an intriguing event, featuring Turkic texts from a broad variety of contexts and offering insights into many genres and registers, ranging from historiography and poetry to nineteenth- and twentieth-century archival sources, ...

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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

Chinese and Sogdian loan words in Middle Turkic languages and OCR of historical Tatar newspapers. This is the link to László Károly's profile page: www.uu.se/en/contact-a...

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László Károly - Uppsala University

László Károly, Professor in Turkic Languages at Department of Linguistics and Philology

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

the students through a selection of Abū’l-Ġāzī Khān’s Şajara-i Türk and an anonymous Risālā-i Şifāʾ al-Abdān, hereby focusing on issues of historical philology, contact linguistics and lexicography. In the afternoon, three students presented their research on ...

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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

discussions of gender norms as discursively constructed in early 20th-century Turkistan sources, of talismanic and devotional practices as recorded in the Jarring Collection, and of the Turkic version of the 1873 Russia-Khiva Peace Treaty.

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

the focus from ghazals to craft manuals, her area of expertise. Under her guidance, the group read two manuscripts from the Biruni Institute, dealing with gilkārlar (plasterworkers) and āhanggarlar (smiths) respectively. The afternoon session featured ...

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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

concrete examples taken from the divans of ʿUbaydī and Navāʾī. The afternoon session featured a discussion of materials relating to Chagatai popular narrations in a manuscript kept at the Bodleian Library. This is the link to Benedek Péri's profile page: www.btk.elte.hu/en/staff/ben...

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Benedek Péri

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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

specific poetic structures by making use of the available reference works. The afternoon session featured a discussion of Chagatai materials provided by a participant, focusing on the poetic texts surrounding manuscript illustrations.

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

the working session dealt with a work by the famous ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī (d. 906/1501), titled Ḥayrat al-Abrār. The group read a selection of poetic apologues found therein and translated these sections, also addressing their linguistic peculiarities as well as ...

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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

parties. The afternoon session featured a discussion of Chagatai materials provided by one of the participants, focusing on archival sources on the history of semi-nomadic groups in the Amu Darya basin. This is the link to Eric Schluessel's profile page: t.co/EaYmBNKWFt

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https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-eric-schluessel

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

nineteenth- and twentieth-century documents from East Turkestan. After the presentation, the group read two property records from a collection of endowment-related documents concerning lands surrounding the city of Kashgar, dealing with the transfer of land between different ...

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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

each day will feature a session dedicated to discussing the participants’ own materials. As the TRANSLAPT team prepares for the reading course, stay tuned for further updates next week! This is the link to the event page: www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIsl...

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Chagatai Reading Course

Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft - TRANSLAPT

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

Instruction will be provided by specialists in each genre: Jeanine Dağyeli (Vienna), László Károly (Uppsala), Benedek Péri (Budapest), Eric Schluessel (Oxford) and Marc Toutant (Paris), all renowned scholars in their respective fields. In addition, ...

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

Held at the Borromaeum Priest Seminary in the historic city centre of Münster, this event aims to bring together participants working with Chagatai to study advanced-level texts pertaining to different genres such as poetry, historiography, craft treatises, and medicine.

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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

5 km and 10 km routes set within the university’s scenic Leonardo-Campus. With the run taking place during a heatwave across Germany, the runners had to grapple with temperatures of 33°C.

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

to promote health and fitness among students, staff, and the broader community. In the event, several thousand participants of both academic and non-academic groups navigated routes of varying lengths, including ...

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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

a valuable opportunity to exchange ideas with Vienna-based Ottomanists and colleagues working on Ottoman literary and manuscript cultures. This is the link to the event page: orientalistik.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/de...

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5th Colloquium on Ottoman Literature

Thursday, June 18, 2026, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Campus of the University of Vienna, Court 4.1 Department of Near Eastern Studies, Seminar Room Turcica

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

"Mamluk Readings of Turkish Classics: The Circulation of Anatolian Turkish Literary Works within the Mamluk Realm," examined the reception of works such as Aḥmedī’s İskendernāme and Nesīmī’s verse among Mamluk readers. The colloquium also offered ..

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