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Nick Posegay deposited Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo: A Material Survey of Egyptian Jewish Literary Culture in the group
Ottoman Jewish Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
The Cairo Genizah is well known as a repository for hundreds of thousands of manuscripts that the Jewish residents of Fustat (Old Cairo) produced and consumed in the premodern period. Foreign “collectors” acquired most of these manuscripts for European libraries in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the majority arriving at the Cam…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo: A Material Survey of Egyptian Jewish Literary Culture in the group
Ottoman and Turkish Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
The Cairo Genizah is well known as a repository for hundreds of thousands of manuscripts that the Jewish residents of Fustat (Old Cairo) produced and consumed in the premodern period. Foreign “collectors” acquired most of these manuscripts for European libraries in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the majority arriving at the Cam…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo: A Material Survey of Egyptian Jewish Literary Culture in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
The Cairo Genizah is well known as a repository for hundreds of thousands of manuscripts that the Jewish residents of Fustat (Old Cairo) produced and consumed in the premodern period. Foreign “collectors” acquired most of these manuscripts for European libraries in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the majority arriving at the Cam…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo: A Material Survey of Egyptian Jewish Literary Culture in the group
Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
The Cairo Genizah is well known as a repository for hundreds of thousands of manuscripts that the Jewish residents of Fustat (Old Cairo) produced and consumed in the premodern period. Foreign “collectors” acquired most of these manuscripts for European libraries in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the majority arriving at the Cam…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
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Nick Posegay deposited Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo: A Material Survey of Egyptian Jewish Literary Culture on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
The Cairo Genizah is well known as a repository for hundreds of thousands of manuscripts that the Jewish residents of Fustat (Old Cairo) produced and consumed in the premodern period. Foreign “collectors” acquired most of these manuscripts for European libraries in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the majority arriving at the Cam…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew in the group
Graeco-Arabic Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew in the group
Digital Syriac Corpus on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew in the group
Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew in the group
Christian Arabic Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
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Nick Posegay's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
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Nick Posegay deposited “A Survey of Personal-Use Qurʾan Manuscripts Based on Fragments from the Cairo Genizah” in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
The Cairo Genizah is a repository of texts spanning more than a millennium of Jewish history, including thousands of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts now held in collections around the world. Among these are fragments from at least 25 separate Qur’an manuscripts in Arabic script, all of which lack any traces of Hebrew writing. Their…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited “A Survey of Personal-Use Qurʾan Manuscripts Based on Fragments from the Cairo Genizah” in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
The Cairo Genizah is a repository of texts spanning more than a millennium of Jewish history, including thousands of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts now held in collections around the world. Among these are fragments from at least 25 separate Qur’an manuscripts in Arabic script, all of which lack any traces of Hebrew writing. Their…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited “A Survey of Personal-Use Qurʾan Manuscripts Based on Fragments from the Cairo Genizah” in the group
Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
The Cairo Genizah is a repository of texts spanning more than a millennium of Jewish history, including thousands of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts now held in collections around the world. Among these are fragments from at least 25 separate Qur’an manuscripts in Arabic script, all of which lack any traces of Hebrew writing. Their…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited “A Survey of Personal-Use Qurʾan Manuscripts Based on Fragments from the Cairo Genizah” on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
The Cairo Genizah is a repository of texts spanning more than a millennium of Jewish history, including thousands of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts now held in collections around the world. Among these are fragments from at least 25 separate Qur’an manuscripts in Arabic script, all of which lack any traces of Hebrew writing. Their…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
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Nick Posegay deposited The Marking of Poetry: A Rare Vocalization System from an Early Qurʾān Manuscript in Chicago, Paris, and Doha in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
This paper provides updated digital images of four Qurʾān fragments from Chicago’s Oriental Institute Museum (OIM) that appeared in Nabia Abbott’s Rise of the North Arabic Script, and calls attention to features of their paleography and vocalization which are not apparent from her original black-and-white plates. In doing so, it demonstrates tha…[Read more]
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