Tamer el-Leithy
Dr Tamer el-Leithy is an assistant professor of History, Arabic & Islamic Civilizations at American University in Cairo and a 2023 Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. He is a respected author, whose work includes “Conversion to Islam in late-medieval Damascus” (introduction and English translations of excerpts on individual/family conversions to Islam from Arabic chronicles) in Luke Yarbrough, ed., Conversion to Islam: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2020) and a frequent conference presenter
Scribbles in Hats or the afterlives of medieval Arabic documents
In this lecture, I present a set of paper fragments found in an unlikely place: the inside of medieval hats. While many are found in the Vienna National Archive, there is also one at Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah. As most fragments are too small, faded, and inconveniently stitched to allow text reconstruction, we are left with only the curious fact that medieval Egyptians used scrap paper inside their hats. But if we see these fragments as objects, we can listen to different material evidence. In this lecture, I trace patterns within the illegible fragments—and read those against other clues (from a scribe’s exercise-book to an Islamic legal discussion of recycling). In so doing, we hear another story, one about more than the lining of hats
مَن نَحنُ
مركز الثقافي
معارض
الموسم الثقافي
الداعمين
الاصدارات
