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The Autograph of al-Khaṭīb al-Tibrīzī (d. 502/1109): A Very Early Source for the Poetry of al-Maʿarrī.

Posted on 31 July 2023 by Liam Sims

This post is by the inaugural Oschinsky Research Associate, Dr James White. James is working with a core group of forty Arabic and Persian manuscripts which […]

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Collectors and collecting, Library history, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

Grief in a Time of Plague: Scripture and Therapeutics in Seventeenth-Century Cairo

Posted on 5 July 2023 by Special Collections

This post is by the inaugural Oschinsky Research Associate, Dr James White. James is working with a core group of forty Arabic and Persian manuscripts […]

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Collectors and collecting, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

Some Islamic manuscripts from Africa

Posted on 5 June 2020 by Catherine Ansorge

In among the very varied items which constitute Library’s Islamic manuscript collection there is a small number of texts originating from the Saharan and sub-Saharan […]

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Collectors and collecting, Manuscripts, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

Manuscripts from the Gayer-Anderson brothers

Posted on 21 May 2019 by Catherine Ansorge

One of the most iconic items in the British Museum’s Egyptology collection is the bronze cat figurine commonly known as the ‘Gayer-Anderson cat’. It is […]

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Collectors and collecting, Near and Middle Eastern, Special Collections

William Bedwell: the tribulations of an Arabist

Posted on 26 July 2011 by Catherine Ansorge

William Bedwell was an Arabic scholar and mathematician born in Great Hallingbury, Essex, in 1563. He is sometimes known as the father of Arabic studies […]

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