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Manuscripts in Arabic Script: Introduction to Codicology (Short Course)


The Media Line Staff
04/22/2021
Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:00 - Sat, 24 Apr 2021 15:00 British Summer Time (UTC+1)
Tickets (£50–£80) here.
Two-day short course delivered by Dr Walid Ghali and Dr Anne Regourd.
About this Event
This online course (2 days) aims to introduce Arabic manuscripts from a codicological and textual point of view. The first day will provide an overview of the field of codicology and it role in the manuscript field in general and in identifying the key features of the manuscript in particular. The second session will be dedicated to writing supports, the structure of quires, ruling and page layout, bookbinding, ornamentation, tools and materials used in bookmaking, and the palaeography of book hands. . Some practical examples will be given based on the lecturers’ long experiences. The second day will focus on the importance of manuscripts in research. While the first session will cover the Para-textual features in the Arabic manuscrip ....

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A Leaner, Meaner Brotherhood - The American Interest


https://www.the-american-interest.com/2011/12/01/a-leaner-meaner-brotherhood/
The American Interest
Egypt s Muslim Brotherhood is becoming smaller and more dangerous.
Now that former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is standing trial and the ruling military junta has promised free and fair presidential elections after an interim phase, the long-repressed Muslim Brotherhood thinks its moment may have arrived. It has been the most popular and best-organized opposition group in Egypt for decades, so it seems to follow that it should win more votes than anyone else even if it doesn’t win an outright majority.
Yet the Brothers didn’t make “the revolution”, as people both inside Egypt and beyond like to call what happened in Cairo this past winter. No one movement did. And now that the Islamists are no longer locked in a dialectical struggle with a one-man regime (Mubarak’s National Democratic Party no longer even exists), they are beginning to crack into facti ....

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