“Monuments of written culture of Islam in Russia

The article is a brief overview of the seminar “Monuments of written culture of Islam in Russia: problems and research approaches”, held on October 25, 2023 by the Center of Islamic Manuscripts named after Sheykh Zayed of the IOS RAS with the participation of the IHAE of the DNC RAS. The seminar covered a wide range of topics: private and public collections and archives of manuscripts; principles and problems of digitization of manuscript collections and private archives; results of archaeographic research in different regions of Russia; methodology of study of the arabographic manuscripts; new finds of manuscripts and early printed books in public and private collections of our country and abroad; paleography and codicology of Islamic manuscripts. The seminar was attended by employees of various research institutes, museums and the largest universities of the country — IOS RAS, IOM RAS, The State Museum of Oriental Art, IHAE of Dagestan Federal Research Center of RAS, HSE University, Kazan Federal University, Ufa Institute of Science and Technology, Faculty of Oriental Studies of St. Petersburg State University

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