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15/10/2026

TRANSLAPT Lecture at Fudan University, Shanghai

On 14 October, Philip Bockholt delivered a lecture at Fudan University in Shanghai, organised by his host, Qiu Yihao (邱轶皓). Entitled “Translating the Past at the Ottoman Court: Historiography, Patronage, and Politics under Dāmād İbrāhīm Pasha,” the lecture explored the intersections of historical writing, translation, and courtly politics in the Ottoman Empire. Philip Bockholt is spending four weeks at Fudan as a visiting scholar at the International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization. He looks forward to continuing the exchange and exploring further opportunities for collaboration at Fudan and other academic institutions in China.

Link: https://fddi.fudan.edu.cn/fddien/1d/79/c19505a793977/page.htm

12/10/2026

Cochrane Fellowship at Chester Beatty, Dublin

TRANSLAPT researcher Kristof D’hulster is currently conducting research at Chester Beatty in Dublin as a Cochrane Fellow. His project explores the literary culture of the late Mamluk Sultanate, focusing on Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516) and the role of poetry in the representation of royal authority.

On 18 November, he will present his findings in a public lecture at Trinity College Dublin, also accessible via Zoom.

Lecture details and registration:
https://chesterbeatty.ie/whats-on/2026-cochrane-fellow-talk-well-nigh-inebriating-us-with-the-sultans-verses-qaniṣawh-al-ghawri-and-the-making-of-poet-king/

08/10/2026

From 3 to 5 October 2026, Hicham Bouhadi participated in the fifth Conference for Arab Graduate Students in Western Universities, organized by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha, Qatar. He presented a paper entitled “Tracing the Dynamics of Readership through Paratexts: Rodosīzāde’s Ottoman-Turkish Translation of Wafayāt al-Aʿyān as a Case Study,” followed by comments from Professor Abderrahim Benhadda and a discussion with the audience. The conference brought together doctoral researchers from various fields of the humanities and social sciences. In addition to the academic sessions, the programme included an introduction to the Encyclopedia Arabica project, as well as cultural visits organized by the Arab Center to the Museum of Islamic Art and Qatar National Library. For the full program, see https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/News/Pages/launch-of-the-fifth-arab-graduate-students-conference.aspx

21/09/2026

From 12–16 September 2026, Hicham Bouhadi participated in the summer school “Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources” at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in Amman, organised in cooperation with the University of Halle-Wittenberg, CETOBaC, IREMAM, ASBÜ-Ankara, and OIB-Beirut. The programme focused on reading and analysing Ottoman manuscript sources, with particular attention to archival documents, and included several cultural and academic activities, such as visits to Ottoman sites in the city of Salt, a cultural tour of Amman, and a visit to the Center for Documents, Manuscripts and Bilad al-Sham Studies at the University of Jordan. The summer school provided practical training in working with Ottoman archival sources and opportunities for exchange with specialists in the field. For more details, seehttps://www.orient-institut.org/fileadmin/user_upload/OI_Beirut/20260216-_CfA_Ottoman_Summer_School_Amman_2026_1_.pdf

11/08/2026

Iranian Studies Conference in Utrecht

Last week, Philip Bockholt attended the Fifteenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference, held at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Organised by the Association for Iranian Studies, the conference brought together more than 400 speakers to present research on the linguistics, literature, history, politics, and religions of Iranian and Persianate regions. Philip Bockholt presented a paper titled “Reading Ibn Khallikān’s Wafayāt al-Aʿyān in Persian: Translation Practices in Late Fifteenth-Century Western India”, which examined the Persian translation of this important work of Islamic scholarship, with a particular focus on the translator and the circumstances in which the translation was produced.

This is the link to the event page: https://associationforiranianstudies.org/conferences/2026/information

29/07/2026

Lecture on the Astronomical Dialogue of Mongol Eurasia

On 28 July, Yoichi Isahaya (Hokkaido University) gave a guest lecture on the astronomical dialogue of Mongol Eurasia in Münster. In the lecture, he discussed the relationship between Islamicate astronomy and its Chinese counterpart, focusing on their intersections and cross-cultural influences across distinct intellectual traditions during the thirteenth century. As Isahaya argues, contact between these traditions did not result in the translation of astronomical works per se; yet, this reflected not an instance of failure but a specific type of cultural policy pursued by the Mongol Empire. After the lecture and discussion, the event concluded with a joint visit to the local restaurant Pinkus Müller.

This is the link to the profile page: https://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/center/profile-e/isahaya-biocv/index.html

15/07/2026

Research at the British Library

This week, Philip Bockholt has been conducting research at the British Library on Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Chagatai texts. His work focuses on manuscripts dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, including the Persian hagiographical work Ṣafvat al-ṣafā and an autograph manuscript by the Mughal princess Jahānārā Begum. The visit has offered an invaluable opportunity to engage with the British Library’s outstanding manuscript collections and research facilities. It has also provided a stimulating scholarly environment in which exchanges with colleagues and fellow researchers may arise, sometimes quite unexpectedly.

This is the link to the library's website:
https://www.bl.uk/

13/07/2026

Newly Published: Texts as Living Objects

Published by Brill (Leiden and Boston), "Texts as Living Objects: Dhayls and Knowledge Transmission in the Islamic World", edited by Sacha Alsancakli and Philip Bockholt, brings together nine studies on dhayls (supplements) and textual transmission across the Islamic world. Covering Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Samaritan Hebrew materials, the volume explores how texts were expanded, adapted, and reinterpreted across regions and centuries. By considering supplements alongside commentary, translation, and other forms of textual modification, it offers a renewed understanding of dhayls as cultural and historical phenomena.

This is the link to the publication: https://brill.com/display/title/18632?contents=toc-136066

10/07/2026

The International Medieval Congress in Leeds

This week, Philip Bockholt participated in the International Medieval Congress (IMC) in Leeds, United Kingdom, Europe’s largest forum for sharing ideas in medieval studies. Drawing medievalists from more than 60 countries, the IMC features over 2,000 individual papers, as well as public concerts, performances, excursions, book fairs, and more. Together with Marie Jaros (Halle), he co-organised two panels on “Whales in the Middle Ages” and gave a paper entitled “Whales in the Islamic Encyclopaedic Tradition: Depictions in Qazwīnī’s Wonders of Creation across Languages.”

This is the link to the event page:
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/

06/07/2026

Concluding the Chagatai Reading Course

After a week of lectures and discussions on diverse Chagatai (or Türkī) materials, the Chagatai Reading Course, which took place in Münster last week, came to an end. Bringing together five instructors, thirteen participants, and the TRANSLAPT team, the reading course proved to be an intriguing event, featuring Turkic texts from a broad variety of contexts and offering insights into many genres and registers, ranging from historiography and poetry to nineteenth- and twentieth-century archival sources, medical and talismanic treatises, and craft manuals. With the conclusion of this event, the TRANSLAPT team looks forward to future activities and continued engagement with Chagatai as an important part of the multilingual mosaic of Western and Central Asia during the early modern period.

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