Panel 4: Cataloguing, Editing, Research and Publishing

This panel concerns the cataloguing of manuscript collections and the publication of scholarship on manuscripts. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, practices in print and digital cataloguing, such as protocols for manuscript description, metadata standards, and authority control; methodologies for preparing print and digital critical editions; descriptions of local or regional publishers, particularly those whose publications are not widely known or easily available; and the history of periodicals, monographs, or publication series concerned with the study of Africa’s Arabic-script manuscript heritage.

Moderator: Ahmed Chaouki Binebine, Director of the Royal Treasury (Bibliothèque al-Hassania) – Rabat, Morocco

Keynote Paper: The Challenges of Cataloguing and the Critical Editing of Islamic Manuscripts: The Case of the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu by Mohamed Diagayeté, General Director of Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research – Timbuktu, Mali
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Selected Paper: Arabic-Script Berber Manuscripts in Morocco: Cataloguing and Publication by Ahmed Saidy, Co-Professor at the Faculty of Theology, Ibn Zohr University – Agadir, Morocco
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Selected Paper: Printing Arabic Manuscripts in the Sixteenth Century: The Medici Oriental Press, from North Africa to Rome and Back by Olga Verlato, Doctoral Candidate at New York University – New York, United States
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Selected Paper: HMML’s Model for Standardized Metadata of West African Manuscripts by David Calabro, Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library – Minnesota, United States, Paul Naylor, Cataloger of West African Manuscripts, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library – Minnesota, United States, and Ali Diakite, Cataloger of West African Manuscripts, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library – Minnesota, United States
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