Professor Dr Tilman Seidensticker

Projects

Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (UWA) (2019–2026)

• 2019–2024: Spokesperson for the Working Group ‘Facing New Technologies’ (FNT)
• 2020–2023: Project Lead FNT05:
  The Last Decades of Arabic Manuscript Culture (1870–1930): Coexistence and Interaction with Printing

SFB 950 ‘Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe’ (2011–2020)

• 2015–2019: Project Lead of sub-project C06:
  The usage of Qur’an manuscripts as objects within Islamic-Arabic culture: The example of miniature and roll Qur’ans
• 2011–2015: Investigator of sub-project B05:
  Forms and Functions of Layout in Arabic Manuscripts as Based on Copies of Religious Texts

Fellowship

• Petra Kappert Fellow (October 2012–March 2013)