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“Music in Arabic Folklore” in a Webinar at the BA

The BA Manuscripts Center organizes a webinar entitled “Music in Arabic Folklore.” It will be delivered by Dr. Abbas Soliman, Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Arabs’ History of Science; and Dr. Amal Khalifa El-Tayeb, PhD in the Heritage of Folk Music. The event will be moderated by Dr. Medhat ...

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Announcement and Call for Papers for 2020 Conference: Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa, 13-16 September 2020, Alexandria, Egypt

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Islamic Manuscript Association, in partnership with the Library’s Manuscript Center and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, organize a conference entitled Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa, which will be held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina from 13 to 16 ...

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The BA Issues Al-Ghazālī’s The Alchemy of Happiness

The BA Manuscripts Center issued the translation of the first part of Abū Ḥāmid Al-Ghazālī’s book, The Alchemy of Happiness . The book is translated and commented on by Researcher Ahmed Abdel Rahim, and includes the translation of Al-Ghazālī’s four types of knowledge: the Knowledge of the Self, ...

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Dr. Essam Elsaeed Wins the General Union of Arab Archaeologists Award

Dr. Essam Elsaeed, a professor of the history of Egypt and the Ancient Near East at Alexandria University and the Director of the BA Manuscript Center, has won the 2016 Dr. Abdulrahman al-Tayeb al-Ansary Award, which is organized and presented by the General Union of Arab Archaeologists. This award ...

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The BA Celebrates the Millennium of Ibn Al-Haytham’s Book of Optics

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina organizes a webinar on Thursday, 8 April 2021, in celebration of the millennium of Al-Hasan Ibn Al-Haytham’s Book of Optics . Having contributed to the invention of the modern-day camera, this seminal book presented the principles of empirical research, and placed ...

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