2710, 2014

Arabic Collections Online

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|October 27, 2014|Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

New York University Libraries has announced the creation of Arabic Collections Online (ACO), a major project to create a publicly available, digital library of public-domain Arabic language content drawn from rich Arabic collections of prominent libraries such as the American University of Beirut, Columbia University, Cornell University,New York University and Princeton University. So far more than 200 tiltes are available full-text. This mass digitization project aims to expose up to

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2710, 2014

Try the Commonwealth iLibrary today!

By Victoria Bird|October 27, 2014|Africa, Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, China and Inner Asia, Development Studies, Economics, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Politics and International Relations, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

For the first time books and working papers published by The Commonwealth are now available online in a single research repository. We have a trial from 27 October to 27 November inclusive. Access is available on-campus here and off-campus here. What’s in it? There are documents on a broad range of topics with special focus on small states, globalization, multilateral trade, export and enterprise development, education, gender, public service management,

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2310, 2014

Qatar Digital Library: a new resource for the study of the Gulf Region history

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|October 23, 2014|Archival collections, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

The Qatar Digital Library (QDL) is making a vast archive featuring the cultural and  historical heritage of the Gulf and wider region freely available online for the first time. It includes archives, maps, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs and much more, complete with contextualised explanatory notes and links, in both English and Arabic. This archive is bound to transform the study of Gulf history, improving understanding of the Islamic world, Arabic

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2210, 2014

A Chronology of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals in Arabic (1800-1900) : A Research Tool

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|October 22, 2014|Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

The Zentrum Moderner Orient has released a working draft of their project “Jara’id” to be used as a research tool to identify and locate Arabic periodicals published in the 19th century. The project managers are inviting contributors to add to this recension. The project aims at recensing all periodicals published in Arabic or in Arabic and in another language (like the usual pair of Arabic and Ottoman Turkish) or in

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2110, 2014

Study Session at Heythrop College (December 2014): Dialogue and Exchange between the Oriental Orthodox and Catholic Traditions on Christology

By Mary Fisk|October 21, 2014|Religions|0 comments

On 9th December 2014 at Heythrop College Talks Ecumenical Dialogue and exchange between the Oriental Orthodox and Catholic Traditions: The contribution of the Armenian theologians to the Five Vienna consultations shaped by the ecumenical legacies of Catholicos Nerses IV Klayetsi (1166-73) and Archbishop Nerses Lambronatsi (1153-98 ) / Revd. Nerses (Vrej) Nersessian, formerly The British Library `The Syriac Churches in Ecumenical dialogue on Christology’ / Sebastian Brock, Emeritus Reader in Syriac

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2110, 2014

Conference Notification: Christianity in the Contemporary Middle East (November 2014)

By Mary Fisk|October 21, 2014|Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions|0 comments

A conference on “Christianity in the contemporary Middle East’ will  held in Oxford on 1st November 9.30-600. pm, hosted by the Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford,in association with the Centre for Eastern Christianity and the Centre for Christianity and Interreligious Dialogue, Heythrop College (University of London) Registration is open until Friday 24th October (http://www.heythrop.ac.uk/events/christianity-contemporary-middle-east) Programme; Presentations & Speakers Welcome – Martin Ganeri, O.P, Vice Regent, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford Christianity

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2010, 2014

“Principles of Akkadian textual criticism” by Martin Worthington : Book Review

By Mary Fisk|October 20, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Linguistics|0 comments

Martin Worthington’s recent “Principles of Akkadian textual criticism” (de Gruyter, 2012) has been reviewed in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review by SOAS alumnus Dr.Wolfgang de Melo (currently Associate Professor of Classical Philology at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies,University of Oxford) who describes it as an  “excellent contribution to both textual criticism and Assyriology” Dr Martin Worthington was a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SOAS for two years and

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1710, 2014

Try out the BRILL Classic Arabic Texts Online (Part 1)

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|October 17, 2014|History, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

For one month (till 12th December 2014) SOAS Students and staff can try out the Classic Arabic Texts Online (CATO) published by Brill. CATO  offers approx. 19,000 pages of classic Brill editions of Arabic texts in a full-text searchable format and accessible from one single point of entry. The following titles are included in CATO-1: •  Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum (with indices and glossaries) edited by M.J. de Goeje and J.H. Kramers [Ibn al-Faqīh al-Hamadhānī’s

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1510, 2014

Music – September 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 15, 2014|Music, Media and Film Studies|0 comments

A feminist ethnomusicology : writings on music and gender / Ellen Koskoff foreword by Suzanne Cusick. Live music vs audio tourism : world music and the changing music industry : an inaugural lecture given on 11 November / by Keith Howard. Quand la musique prend corps / sous la direction de Monique Desroches, Sophie Stévance et Serge Lacasse. Territoires musicaux mis en scène / sous la direction de Monique Desroches

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1510, 2014

Religions – September 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 15, 2014|Religions|0 comments

General and comparative The religious philosophy of Simone Weil: an introduction / Lissa McCullough. Religion and change in modern Britain / edited by Linda Woodhead and Rebecca Catto. Visualizing secularism and religion: Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India / Alev Cinar, Srirupa Roy, and Maha Yahya, editors. Christianity Christian responses to Islam in Nigeria: a contextual study of ambivalent encounters / Akintunde E. Akinade.  Buddhism Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji competition for

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