1. In recent years, booklists and other documentary sources that shed light on various facets of book cultures in West Asia and North Africa before the advent of printing have attracted increasing scholarly interest. This blog post delves into one … Continued
Magdalen Connolly is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München, where she researches pre-modern ‘non-standard’ Arabic written language. She focuses on diachronic variation in the orthography, morphology, and syntax of ‘Middle Arabic’, the styles and registers associated with this … Continued
