The Specialised Information Service Asia has licensed the database “Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1941-1996” of the provider Readex for German research.… Read more
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Advisory Board Meeting 2020
The Specialized Information Service (FID) Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies will hold its third advisory board meeting on 19 November 2020.
The Specialized Information Service is in the middle of its second funding period. The meeting will be … Read more
Video Conference Studies the Awlād al-Nās
Video Conference of the University of Bonn from 17 to 18 December 2020
The conference will discuss the Awlād al-Nās, a middling group between the Mamluks and Egyptian society who occupied many key areas there.
This conference is the first … Read more
Ottoman Documents from the Franciscan Monastery
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Fojnica: Osmanski dokumenti iz arhiva Franjevačkog samostana
Bosnia was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1463, and with it the Franciscan monastery of the Holy Spirit of Fojnica, founded in the 14th century.
Due to its eventful history, the … Read more
Online Publications of the Iranian National Library
The National Library of Iran (NLAI) has launched numerous publications online. A one-time registration with a valid e-mail address is required. In case of problems with the registration a short request in Persian or English can be sent to sana@nlai.ir… Read more
Job Offer: Cataloguing of Persian Media in Halle
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The University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt (ULB) in Halle is looking for a librarian starting October 2020 within the project “Indexing and digitisation of the Ali-Reza Rahbar collection” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).… Read more
Persian Scholarly Collection Becomes a DFG Project
In September 2018 the University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt (ULB) received the extensive private library of the Iranian-born scholar Ali-Reza Rahbar from Bonn. We had reported about it in our newsletter and here on our web portal.
The ULB … Read more