Events

Lecture 7/8

Margherita Mantovani:

The Image of Death and the Misplaced Quire: A Tale of Two Codices

Judicial Proceedings in Ajami Manuscript from the Bauchi Native Courts Umma Aliyu Musa (University of Hamburg) This presentation examines judicial proceedings from the Bauchi Native Courts during the colonial period in Nigeria. At the time, the Khadis (Islamic judges) were well versed in both Islamic jurisprudence and Ajami scholarship—Ajami being the use of Arabic script to write the Hausa...

Learning to write is an essential cultural technique which lies at the heart of the production and dissemination of both secular and religious manuscripts. Learning and teaching writing skills is an organised knowledge transfer, be it from an individual teacher to a disciple, or in the form of a school or scriptorium.

The workshop aims to address but is not limited to the following research...

Lecture 8/8

Caterina Tarlazzi:

Latin Manuscripts of Logic, 1080-1200 or: The Turmoil Below the Surface