Virtual Event
Celebrating the Manuscripts of the Muslim World Project (2018-2021)
Wednesday, July 14, 2021, 2:00 - 4:00pm (via Zoom)
Over the past three years the Free Library of Philadelphia, Columbia University Libraries, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, and a number of other Philadelphia partners have worked to make their collective holdings of Islamicate manuscripts available to the public online. Thanks to funding from a Council on Library and Information Resources Digitizing Hidden Collections grant and the hard work of many across these institutions, the project is now complete with 684 manuscripts covering more than 900 years of cultural production across four continents available online to the world for the first time.
On July 14th we will be holding an afternoon symposium to celebrate this milestone and highlight some of the findings from the project. Speakers from all three institutions will discuss the process of cataloging and making these manuscripts available, some of the research highlights uncovered in the process, engagement plans with the collection, as well as future programs made possible by the digitization work.
Please join us from 2pm to 4pm EDT on July 14th
2:00: Introductions, thanks, and project overview
Mitch Fraas, Senior Curator, Kislak Center, Penn Libraries
2:15: What’s Not to Like? Items of Popular and Academic Interest in the Collections
Kelly Tuttle, Project Cataloger on the Manuscripts of the Muslim World project
2:40: Community Collaborations in Muslim Philadelphia
Caitlin Goodman, Curator of the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia
3:05: “MWM Engagement Plan at Columbia: listening to all the Echoes in the Garden”
Kaoukab Chebaro, Head, Global Studies, Columbia University Libraries
Peter Magierski, Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarian, Columbia University Libraries
3:30 Questions and virtual tour of manuscript holdings
Image at top of page is from Khamsah / خمسه by Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 نظامى گنجوى،
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