On 16 June, Dr Jonathan Brockopp — professor of history, religious studies, and philosophy at Pennsylvania State University and member of the the KMP leadership team — will present a lecture entitled ‘Archive and Historical Memory: The Arabic Manuscripts from Kairouan in Historical Context’.

The Raqqada Collection contains exceptionally valuable early Islamic manuscripts. A two-part workshop will focus on new research into the texts contained in these manuscripts and the scholarly communities that produced and preserved them. Registration for the workshop is now open.

As part of the Kairouan Manuscript Project (KMP), the Barakat Trust funds a one-year internship for early-career conservators at the National Laboratory for the Preservation and Conservation of Parchment and Manuscripts (NLPCPM) in Raqqada, Kairouan, Tunisia.