Department of Religion, UGA
Recent publications
On the study of looted Qur'ans (with Jan Loop): https://brill.com/view/journals/erl/9/3/article-p239_001.xml
On manuscript catalogs: https://www.academia.edu/125336554/The_Manuscript_Catalog_proofs
Paul Babinski
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A manuscript of Petraeus's Coptic-Arabic-Latin edition of Psalm 1, with annotations that were left out of the 1663 printing, presented in 1661 to the Danish King Frederick III. CKB, ms Or. Arch. 2(2).
Borna Izadpanah on 'Printing the Qur’an across Empires'
All welcome to our final event of the academic year - in person in Oxford, or online (email [email protected]).
Copenhagen copy of Hoca Mesʿūd’s Ferhengnāme, a 14th-century Turkish translation from Saʿdī’s Būstān, acquired in Leipzig in 1677 by the Danish scholar Hans Wandal, whose ownership note includes an Arabic proverb: “Assure yourself of victory after patience”. CKB, ms Cod. Turc. 20
Upcoming conference: Mecmuas in the Ottoman World.
Interdisciplinary Approaches and Current Research
4–6 June 2026
mecmuaconference.univie.ac.at
Bedwell’s album amicorum has been digitized here: hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:...
“O Lord, always make Your grace a guide for me / Do not show me that path which does not lead to You”: a line of Turkish poetry (by Fużūlī) in an annotation on the “straight path” in Sūrah al-Fātiḥah by the seventeenth-century orientalist Theodor Petraeus. CKB, ms Or.Arch. 2(1)
