Dr Dmitry Bondarev
Head of 'Ajami Lab' | Member UWA
West African Linguistics and Islamic Studies
Address
University of Hamburg
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC)
Warburgstraße 28
20354 Hamburg
Office
Room: 2002
Contact
Tel: +49 40 42838-9401
Current and Completed Projects
Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (UWA) (2019–2025)
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Project lead RFH05 (2021–2024):
Script Styles versus Dialects and Languages: A Case for Songhay in Islamic Manuscripts of Timbuktu and Jenne - Project lead FNT02 (2020–2023):
Change and Retention in Annotated Manuscripts of West Africa
Ajami Lab
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Head of project (2017–2029):
African voices in the Islamic manuscripts from Mali: documenting and exploring African languages written in Arabic script (Ajami) - Head of project (2015–2018):
African voices in Islamic manuscripts from Mali: A study of African languages written in Arabic-based script (Ajami)
Safeguarding the Manuscripts of Timbuktu (2013–2019)
SFB 950 ‘Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe’ (2011–2020)
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Project lead of sub-project A05 (2015–2019):
Islamic Manuscripts with a Wide Spaced Layout as Mediators of Teaching Practices in West Africa - Project lead of sub-project A05 (2013–2015):
Writing and reading paratexts in West African Islamic manuscripts: a comparative study of commentaries on Arabic texts in Old Kanembu and Old Mande