Lecture on the Astronomical Dialogue of Mongol Eurasia On 28 July, Yoichi Isahaya (Hokkaido University) gave a guest lecture on the astronomical dialogue of Mongol Eurasia in Münster. In the lecture, he discussed the relationship between Islamicate astronomy and ...

Research at the British Library This week, Philip Bockholt has been conducting research at the British Library on Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Chagatai texts. His work focuses on manuscripts dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, including ...

Newly Published: Texts as Living Objects Published by Brill (Leiden and Boston), "Texts as Living Objects: Dhayls and Knowledge Transmission in the Islamic World", edited by Sacha Alsancakli and Philip Bockholt, brings together nine studies on dhayls (supplements) and ...

The International Medieval Congress in Leeds This week, Philip Bockholt participated in the International Medieval Congress (IMC) in Leeds, United Kingdom, Europe’s largest forum for sharing ideas in medieval studies. Drawing medievalists from more than 60 countries, the ...

Concluding the Chagatai Reading Course After a week of lectures and discussions on diverse Chagatai (or Türkī) materials, the Chagatai Reading Course, which took place in Münster last week, came to an end. Bringing together five instructors, thirteen participants, and ...

History and Medicine On Friday, 3 July, László Károly, professor in Turkic languages at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, concluded the Chagatai reading course with an exploration of historical and medical texts. More specifically, he guided ...

Reading Vernacular Sources: The Crafts’ risāla On Thursday, 2 July, Jeanine Dağyeli, associate professor at the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Vienna and research fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, shifted ...

How to Read a Classical Ghazal On Wednesday, 1 July, Benedek Péri, head of the Department of Turkic Studies of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, guided the students through the difficult process of learning how to read and appreciate a classical ghazal, using ...

Reading Chagatai Poetry by Navāʾī On Tuesday, 30 June, Marc Toutant, a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS/CETOBaC) and lecturer at INALCO, introduced the group to the text type of mas̱navī in Chagatai. Specifically, ...

Reading Property Records From East Turkestan On Monday, 29 June, Eric Schluessel, Associate Professor in Modern Chinese and East Asian History at the University of Oxford, opened the week of lectures and working sessions with a presentation on Chagatai, or Türkī, as found in ...

Preparing for the Chagatai Reading Course From 29 June–3 July, the International Summer Academy "Chagatai Manuscript Reading Course" will take place in Münster, jointly organised by Philip Bockholt and Jeanine Dağyeli (University of Vienna / Austrian Academy of Sciences).

Participating in the Leonardo-Campus-Run On 24 June, Philip Bockholt participated in the Leonardo-Campus-Run, an annual sports event organized by the University of Münster, and was supported by the TRANSLAPT team. The run has been organised since the year 2000 and aims ...

5th Colloquium on Ottoman Literature On 18 June 2026, Kristof D’hulster participated in the Fifth Colloquium on Ottoman Literature (COL), organized by Gisela Procházka-Eisl and Ercan Akyol at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna. His paper, ...

Workshop “Figures of Authority” in Tübingen On 15–16 June, Philip Bockholt takes part in the workshop “Figures of Authority: Argumentative Strategies, Exemplary Motifs, and Narrative Patterns in the Political Advice Literature of the Premodern Islamic World,” organised by ...

Visiting the Bosniak Institute On 8 June, the TRANSLAPT team, together with Munir Drkić and Paula Manstetten, visited the Bosniak Institute and met with the institute’s CEO, Amina Rizvanbegović Džuvić. The Bosniak Institute holds a collection ...

Research at the Gazi Husrev Beg Library On 5 June, the TRANSLAPT team used the opportunity to spend one more day at the Gazi Husrev Beg Library in order to consult manuscripts there. Accompanied by Paula Manstetten and Andrew Peacock, they also ...

Experiencing Ottoman Heritage in Bosnia On Thursday, 4 June, the workshop participants were taken on a tour of important cultural sites related to Ottoman Bosnia, led by Munir Drkić. The group visited various sites in the cities of Stolac and Mostar, including ...

Second Day of the Balkans Workshop On Wednesday, 3 June, the workshop continued with panels featuring a total of nine lectures. These lectures focused on multilingual manuscript collections and practices (Kadir Turgut, Josh Mugler), educational sources ...

Meeting at the Gazi Husrev Beg Library On 1 June, the TRANSLAPT team began their trip to Sarajevo with an initial visit to the Gazi Husrev Beg Library, where the workshop on the Ottoman Balkans as a space for multilingualism will take place over ...

Preparations for Workshop in Sarajevo From 2–4 June, the workshop "The Ottoman Balkans as a Space for Multilingualism: Actors, Practices, and Sites of Translation" will take place at the Gazi Husrev Beg Library in Sarajevo. Organised jointly ...

Manuscripts on Ptolemaic Astrology in the Late Ottoman Empire and in Qajar Iran On 21 May, Nadine Löhr gave a lecture at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies titled "Vermeintlich unwichtige Handschriften: ...

Tobias Sick Defends Doctoral Thesis On 19 May, TRANSLAPT member Tobias Sick successfully completed the defense (Disputatio) of his doctoral thesis. His thesis offers a comprehensive study of the translation history of the Persian Pandnāma-yi ʿAṭṭār, providing insights ...

Presentation on Turkish Translations of Jāmī’s Forty Hadith Collection On 2 May, Muhammed Sofu took part in the Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Lanham (USA), organised by the Diyanet Center of America in collaboration with the Center for Islamic Studies (İSAM), ...

Discussing Ottoman Translators’ Prefaces On 17 April, Tobias Sick gave a lecture in the Ottoman Translation Lab lecture series, organised by Marc Aymes (CNRS/EHESS), Natalie Rothman (University of Toronto), Henning Sievert (University of Heidelberg), and ...

On 16 March, Kristof D’hulster presented his paper “Language Matters in the Mamluk Sultanate, or what Turkic Had that Arabic and Circassian Did Not” at Wolfson College, Oxford, at the invitation of James White (AMES). The talk was part ...

Student Workshop on Endowment Records Following the 17-session “Endowment Records” lecture series, organised in partnership between the FSMVÜ Center for Manuscript Studies and TRANSLAPT, a student workshop on endowment records was held on 28 March at FSMVÜ's Ayasofya Campus.

Call for Papers: Workshop on Biography and Hagiography in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish From 17–19 February 2027, the workshop “Exemplary Lives in the Pre-Modern Islamic World: Biography and Hagiography in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish”, jointly organised ...

Lecture on "Translation as a Cultural Technique" in Kyoto On 30 March, Philip Bockholt presented "Translation as a Cultural Technique" at the Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, Japan. His lecture dealt with translation practices within the Ottoman Empire, focusing on ...

Workshop on the "Power of Patronage" in Tokyo Philip Bockholt participated in the workshop "The Power of Patronage: Translation and Multilingualism in the Ottoman Empire" hosted by the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) at ...

First Monograph of De Gruyter’s “Empires in Translation” Series Published (Open Access) In the monograph “Türkische Übersetzungen aus dem Arabischen und Persischen”—the first volume of the series ...