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Posts by the team of the #Fachinformationsdienst #Nahost / #Specialistinformationservice #MiddleEast at the Universitäts- & Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle Our homepage: https://www.menalib.de/

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 13d

#FIDontheroad
You are cordially invited to R. Zanganeh's roadshow on 20 October 2025 @uni-hamburg.de.

#iranianstudies #roadshow #middleeast #MENA

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 5h

#Catchoftheday
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:

"Les mille et une Nuits: Contes arabes" by Antoine Galland

[Paris: Lebigre, 1836]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/100...

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Anís del moro @anisdelmoro.bsky.social · 9h

B. Herin and E. Al-Wer, A Grammar of Jordanian Arabic, 2025 (Open Access).
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 10h

*call for application*

Am Käte Hamburger Kolleg CURE an der Universität des Saarlandes forscht jährlich eine internationale, interdisziplinäre Gruppe von Fellows. Für das dritte Kollegjahr (Okt. 26-Sept. 27) werden bis zu 12 Fellowships ausgeschrieben.

cure.uni-saarland.de/fellows/call...

MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 1d

#Catchoftheday
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:

"Istorija izučenija Vostoka v Evrope i Rossii: lekcii" by Vasilij Vladimirovič Bartolʹd

[Leningrad, 1925]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/98225

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 1d

#NewPublication
#OpenAccess
#ChristianEast

Harrassowitz Verlag @harrassowitz-v.bsky.social · 1d

👉 NEW AND OPEN ACCESS

The book critically reappraises the history of slavery in Ethiopia, highlighting its dynamics, the domestic slave trade, legal reforms, local interpretations of slavery and abolition, and the memory of enslavement.
#openaccess

www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 1d

*call for applications*

Im Zuge des Beginns des Exzellenzclusters Cross-Cultural Philology werden 12 Doktorandenstellen (65%) und 17 Postdocstellen (100%) nach TV-L E13 ausgeschrieben.

job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/e...

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 2d

#Catchoftheday
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:

"Suspicious sweeps: the general intelligence department and Jordan's rule of law problem" by Human Rights Watch

[New York: Human Rights Watch, 2006]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/106...

#jordan #humanrightslaw

MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 2d

*upcoming events*

Datenkompetenz für die Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften:

Der Workshop setzt grundlegende Kenntnisse in Linked Open Data voraus und bietet eine vertiefende Behandlung spezieller Themen und Anwendungsfälle in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften.

hermes-hub.de/aktuelles/ev...

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 2d

*calls for applications*

Bewerbung um ein Promotionsstipendium:
Zum 1. April 2026 schreibt die a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne 8 Promotionsstipendien im Integrated Track aus.

Bewerbungsfrist: 07.11.2025

artes.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/promotion/fo...

MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 2d

*call for applications*

The call for applications for the FAIR Data Fellowships 2026 is now open! The deadline for submissions is November 19, 2025 - we look forward to receiving your applications! All information can be found:
4memory.de/aktivitaeten...

Fellowships

NFDI4Memory integriert erstmals historische Forschungs-, Gedächtnis- und Informationseinrichtungen in einer digitalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur.

4memory.de

MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 6d

#Catchoftheday
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:

"Die Scheïbaniade: ein özbegisches Heldengedicht in 76 Gesängen" by Mohammad Salih

[Wien : K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1885]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/97724

#epos

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 6d

New arrival on the history of #Islam in #Ukraine

Неви[і]ди[о]мий іслам на теренах України : Історія ісламу в Україні кінця ХІХ - початку ХХІ ст / Денис Брильов. - Кам'янець-Подільський : ФОП Панькова А. С, 2023. - 379 Seiten. ; 21 cm
ISBN 978-617-7773-56-5

kxp.k10plus.de/DB=2.1/PPNSE...

MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 7d

#Catchoftheday
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:

"Fawāyid-i giyāhḫwārī: īn nāma rā bi dūstdārān-i rāstī wa durustī armaġān mīkunam" by Sadegh Hedayat

[Tihrān: Intišārāt-i Ǧāwīdān, [1977]]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/86296
#vegetarism #persian #iran

MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 7d

#Opencall
Volkswagen fellowship “From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies” invites applications from scholars in research on Judaism and the Jewish communities of the MENA region from the early modern to modern periods.

www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/volkswagen-m...

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 8d

When you discover exciting things in the old collection: a #Turkestani edition of Ahmed Yesevis Dīvān-ı Ḥikmet from 1900, which Martin Hartmann acquired during a visit to #Tashkent.
حکمت حضرت سلطان العارفین خواجه احمد بن ابراهیم بن محمود بن افتخار یسوی

halit.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/search?q=id%...

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 9d

#conference
The event critically examines the interplay of state- & empiremaking, technological advancements & shifting mobilities in delineating sea-borders & airspaces across in the MENA-region.

www.unine.ch/histoire/wp-...

#borders #imperialism #territoriality #ottoman

MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 12d

#Catchoftheday
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:

"Egalité ou réalité: where do Muslims truly reside in today's France?" by Michael A. Davis

[Monterey/Cal.: Naval Postgraduate School, 2007]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/105...

#muslims #identity #islamophobia #discrimination #racism #politics #frenchsociety

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 12d

#NewPublication
#ChristianEast
#Syriac
#Greek
www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?s...

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 12d

*call for applications*

"Georg Arnhold Senior Fellowship 2027"

Das @gei.bsky.social gibt die Ausschreibung des Georg Arnhold Senior Fellowships „Bildung für Nachhaltigen Frieden“ 2027 bekannt.

www.gei.de/institut/kar...

MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 13d

#Catchoftheday
#OpenAccess on
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"The Western or Wailing Wall in Jerusalem" memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies

[London: Stat. Off., 1928]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/98460

#jerusalem

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Qalamos: Connecting Manuscript Traditions @qalamos.bsky.social · 13d

Fascinating event!😱

With its agent module called #name_authority, #Qalamos provides i.a. data on authors, copyist etc. and their relationship with books, places, institutions & other agents—functioning also as a platform for obtaining data for #historical_network_analysis!

#digital_humanities
#DH

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 13d

#FIDontheroad
You are cordially invited to R. Zanganeh's roadshow on 20 October 2025 @uni-hamburg.de.

#iranianstudies #roadshow #middleeast #MENA

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 14d

Словарь къ татарской хрестоматiи
halit.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/search?q=id%...

Salichʹjan Kukljašev was an Arabic and Persian teacher at a cadet school in Orenburg and thus an example of the interplay between Russian Oriental studies and colonial policy.

ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%...

MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 14d

When you discover exciting things in the old collection that weren't even listed in Worldcat until now: a Tatar anthology and dictionary from 1859.

Татарская хрестоматiя / составленная Салихъ Джаномъ Кукляшевымъ - دیوان حكایت تاتار

halit.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/search?q=id%...

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MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social · 14d

Covers most of the issues from 2.1882 till 45.1926