Film screening at the ISL on Feb. 28th!
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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Evening of Calligraphy & Demonstrations with Dr. Hilal Kazan
Hi friends! Don’t forget about tonight’s Evening of Calligraphy &
Demonstrations with Dr. Hilal Kazan! Please note this will be held in Leacock Building, Room 819 on the McGill downtown campus! Come one, come all!!
The Islamic Studies Library (ISL) was founded in 1952 in conjunction with the Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS). Dr. W.C. Smith, founder and first Director of the IIS sought to give greater definition to the field of Islamic studies. The library has grown from a collection of 250 books to 125,000 volumes. On display are some of the treasures from its collection and history. For example in 1959 the former President of Tunisia, Habib Bourghuiba visited the IIS and ISL and donated a Qur’ānic leaf, in 1971 the former Shah of Iran sent a personal invitation to then Director of the IIS, Dr. Charles J. Adams. We also have on display one volume from the complete holdings of the journal of al-Azhar in Cairo. Dr. W.C. Smith’s Ph.D. dissertation was an analysis of these publications.
Come one, come all!!
60th anniversary events
Hi friends! Next week is filled with delightful activities sure to engage you and teach you about various aspects of Islamic civilization and culture! On Monday 11 Feb. a new exhibition celebrating McGill’s rich Islamic manuscripts will open followed by a lecture by Adam Gacek, curator of the exhibition, on Arabic paleography! Two other not-to-be-missed events are Turkish calligrapher, Hilal Kazan’s workshops and Chinese calligrapher Haji Noor Deen workshops! Come one, come all!
All of these fantastic events are detailed here.
Iraqi academic scientific journals in open access
Press release, Baghdad, Jun 20, 2012
The Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research of Iraq is pleased to announce the launch of the new service “Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals” (IASJ).
IASJ is one platform where all scholarly journals published by the Iraqi universities and research institutions are indexed and discovered. All journals in IASJ are peer-reviewed and open access.
The main aim of IASJ is to improve the online discoverability and visibility of and access to the published scholarly research of iraqi academics. IASJ will help Iraqi authors to disseminate their research globally.
At the moment IASJ is launched in a Beta version with only 71 journals published by 18 institutions. The service will be further developed and will cover all journals, more than 200 journals publisher by 40 academic institutions in Iraq.
IASJ is developed and hosted by SemperTool, a company specialized in building digital library products. All content of IASJ will be included in the Iraqi Virtual Library System IVSL and it’s discovery system LibHub provided by SemperTool.
Trial with Western Travellers in the Islamic World (Brill)
Hi friends! A gentle reminder that our trial with Western Travellers in the Islamic World (Brill), a new online database will expire in one week. This database maintains: “Accounts of travel are a popular and accessible source for research on historical relations between “East” and “West” and are attractive for specialists and non-specialists alike. In the pre-modern period a large number of such accounts were published all over Europe, and almost without exception these volumes are now scarce and priceless. Some were republished later in modern editions (like those in the Hakluyt series), but these are often out of print at present.”
Subscription details:
Site address: http://www.primarysourcesonline.nl/c19/
Product: Western Travellers in the Islamic World Online
Subscription id: 22284
Start date: 14 Jan 2013
End date: 12 Feb 2013
Any and all feedback is welcomed and appreciated!
Oriental Manuscripts: University of Edinburgh
Hi friends!
A new images collection from the University of Edinburgh includes some Oriental manuscripts.
Enjoy!