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Manuscripts and their Importance in Islamic Cultural and Religious Studies

By Muhammad Isa Waley // February 28, 2018February 28, 2018

*Above is a recording of a lecture delivered by Dr. Muhammad Isa Waley on February 6, 2018 at the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. Dr. Waley’s essay…

How (not) to mis-identify a manuscript: On scholarly lineage and transmission of errors

By Arafat A. Razzaque // October 24, 2016December 22, 2016

While conducting research last summer at the historic Bodleian Library at Oxford, I requested to look at a medieval Arabic manuscript volume which, according to the online catalogue, contained three texts bound together: first, apparently…