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Tuesday, July 9, 2019

"Digital Classics in Arabic" gets funding from the British Academy

Digital Classics in Arabic (DCA)

Makdisi, George,1980. The Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West. Edinburgh University Press.


        After a delay of one year(!), my project "Digital Classics in Arabic", funded by the British Academy and hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) of the University of London, has officially started. It has been a long journey from my office in Cairo until I arrived here safe and sound in London on Sunday the 7th of July 2019. I can not express how happy I am to start working in the ICS and I'm sure that, with the help and expertise of Gabriel BodardCharlotte Roueché and Valeria vitale, this project will achieve its goals and provide both our national and international classical and papyrological community with important tools and gadgets. For the moment I am just announcing the quick-off of this long-delayed project. So, dear classical and papyrological friends and colleagues (in and outside Egypt) stay tuned DCA is coming!

      As for the reasons behind this long delay, I will be giving a detailed account of this trip in a blogpost that will appear soon in "Everday Orientalism". For those who unfamiliar with this blog; this is the blog I, Katherine Blouin, and Rachel Mairs, are running for almost three years now. It's main focus is the discourse of Orientalism, Colonialism, Nationalism, politicized past in and around Antiquities-related disciplines. In addition to regular posts about these topics in English, French and Arabic, we are running an Egypt-based yearly workshop that brings together scholars from the Middle East, Europe, and North America, in order to reflect on the many ways in which Orientalism has shaped the field of “Classics” and its relationship to Egypt’s territory, history, and heritage. To know more about this initiative and our other activities, please visit the blog here https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/ .



Monday, April 29, 2019

COLONIALISM AND EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY

COLONIALISM AND EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY

González-Ruiba, Alfredo, Colonialsim and European Archeology in: Jane Lydon and Uzma Rizvi (eds.): Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology.Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 2010, pp. 37-47. Available throug the author's website here: https://www.academia.edu/366003/Colonialism_and_European_archaeology

Future Directions

Colonialism and European archaeology have been close allies for a long time. Even today,the colonial sin is far from being washed away. Postcolonial archaeology has to be lessself-in-dulgent and more critical in order to deconstruct the ongoing relationship withneocolonialism. Here are a few suggestions for producing a more radical archaeology. First,it is necessary to get rid of the condescending language of cooperation and progress, whichsimply transforms the savage of colonialism into the undeveloped native of the postcolony(González-Ruibal 2009). Second, we must take equality seriously (Rancière 1995) and stopdreaming of impossible, idealized partnerships. As Alberto Memmi (2004: 163) reminds us,“Partnership does not make sense except when both partners have a reasonably equal force.”It is still Western archaeologists who study Africa’s past, not the other way around. Third, itis important to embrace politics beyond identity issues, and recognize that politics is all aboutconflict (iek 2007). We have to be able to accept conflict in postcolonial situations. Fromhere, we have to consider ruling out concepts that have been deeply tainted by colonial valuesand Eurocentricity, such as “prehistory” (McNiven and Russell 2005), which situatescontemporary Indigenous communities in another time (Fabian 1983), or “historicalarchaeology,” which only considers Western World History as “historical” (Guha 2002).Then, archaeological traditions in Europe must properly address their colonial pasts andneocolonial presents. And finally, a dichotomy has to be broken between consciouspostcolonial scholars who focus on deconstructing their discipline and researchers who,without caring much about the history of the discipline, Indigenous communities, orcolonialism, tell us how the past truly was (Langebaek 2006: 118).

The History of Egyptian Law in Ptolemaic Egypt (in Arabic)

The History of Egyptian Law in Ptolemaic Egypt
and an Introduction to the Roman Law

It is a very good introduction, for Egyptians and Arab students, to the history of Egyptian law in Ptolemaic Egypt. In 323 pages, Prof. Ahmed Ibrahim Hasan of Alexandria University gives not only a concise history of the law in Ptolemaic Egypt (pp. 5-99), but a brief history of the evolution of the Roman law. It is a must read for every student of papyrology in Egypt. Congratulations for this effort, Prof. Ahmed. The book is published in Alexandria 2000 and to be obtained from Dar al-Matbu'at al-Gamiya (House of University publications). Here are the first pages of the book as well as its contents if you want to see for yourself.

 Book contents

















Tuesday, November 13, 2018

A New Publication: Tebtynis VI


From the IFAO website 13/11/2018: http://www.ifao.egnet.net/publications/catalogue/9782724706949/
Tebtynis VI
Scripta Varia

IF1139, ISBN 9782724706949 
2018 IFAO
Collection: FIFAO 78 
1 vol., 264 p., 45 € (818 EGP)


The abundant material discovered at Tebtynis includes few hieroglyphic or Aramaic texts, hieratic ostraca, graffiti, inscriptions, texts on stamps, seals, bones or glass. Nonetheless, these inscriptions are of interest and the present volume aims at gathering and classifying them, according to their language, the type of inscription and the material used. Indexes complete the classification. Thanks to this presentation, the reader interested in a particular type of text will easily find them grouped together here and anyone studying Tebtynis will have easy access to all the information these pieces offer about the village.
In order to facilitate studies on Tebtynis and to avoid the scattering of works on the village, an appendix devoted to the papyri of Soknebtynis, one of the major legacies of the site to modern science, has been included in this volume.
من منشورات المعهد الفرنسى للآثار الشرقية فى المنيرة.

Saturday, May 5, 2018

Cultural Heritage Cluster Conference in Cairo from May 7-9, 2018.



DAAD Heritage

I have just received a kind invitation from the Cairo office of DAAD to participate in its kick-off event for its cultural heritage cluster. It is a three-day conference that will take place in different venues: May 7 at the Cairo Marriott Hotel, 16 Gezira St., Zamalek.



May 8 at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Ad Deyorah, Misr Al Qadimah / Fustat
May 9 at the DAAD Cairo Office, 11 El-Saleh Ayoub St., Zamalek.

The most updated programme is to be found here: www.daad.eg/heritage-programme


Thursday, April 12, 2018

Two five year positions at Würzburg University

[Posted on the 9th of April in papylist https://lists.ku.dk/hyperkitty/list/papy@lists.hum.ku.dk/]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to announce two forthcoming positions at Würzburg University. Please find details below, and feel free to share, and to contact myself or Prof. Dr. Martin Stadler for fuller details.

Two Five-year Positions: Study of Coptic Magic (doctoral and post-doctoral)

As part of the new Excellent Ideas programme, the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg is pleased to announce two vacancies within the Department of Egyptology:

- 1 postdoctoral researcher (TV-L E13 100%; initial monthly salary min. 3,672.02 EUR before tax)
- 1 doctoral assistant (TV-L E13 50%; initial monthly salary min. 1,836.01 EUR before tax)

These positions will be part of a new in-depth project studying “magical” texts from Late Antique and early Islamic Egypt written in Coptic, and will involve the creation of a database of published and unpublished texts, the edition and re-edition of original manuscripts, and the production of research situating them within their historical, social and intellectual context. The appointed applicants will work with the team co-ordinator (Dr. Korshi Dosoo).

Both positions will begin 1 September 2018, running for five years until 31 August 2023.

The postdoctoral candidate will require a doctoral degree in a relevant discipline (Coptic Studies, Papyrology, Egyptology, Early Christian Studies, Islamic Studies etc.), and a strong knowledge of the Coptic and Greek languages, as well as fluent English and at least a reading knowledge of German, French, Italian, and Spanish. Language skills in Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, and earlier phases of Egyptian are also highly desirable. As a position intended for a junior researcher, applicants are normally expected to have completed their doctorate within the last three years.

The candidate for the position of a doctoral assistant will require a master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline (Ancient History, Coptic Studies, Papyrology, Egyptology, Early Christian Studies, Islamic Studies etc.), and a strong knowledge of the Coptic and Greek languages, as well as fluent English. A reading knowledge of German, French, Italian, and Spanish is highly desirable, as are language skills in Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Spanish, Latin, and earlier phases of Egyptian. She or he will receive supervision to allow her or him to complete her or his doctoral degree. The candidate will be free to decide on a thesis topic, although it will preferably overlap to some degree with the project theme.

In order to increase the proportion of female researchers at the University of Würzburg, applications from women are particularly welcome.

Persons with disabilities will be given preference if equally qualified.

To apply, please send a current curriculum vitae with the contact details for 2 referees, a letter of motivation (no more than 2 pages), and

- a writing sample (article or conference presentation; postdoctoral researcher)

or

- a proposal for a doctoral dissertation topic (ca. 2 pages, doctoral assistant)

as a single PDF.

For further details, and to apply, please contact Prof. Dr. Martin Andreas Stadler: martin.stadler@uni-wuerzburg.de.

The deadline for applications for both positions is 31 May, 2018.

Friday, April 6, 2018

Romeyka or the Grecophonic Muslims of Turkey

Romeyka 

It is very interesting to see that there is a variety of Greek that is spoken in a region outside Greece. Romeyka is such a variety, but it is more interesting as it is spoken in modern Turkey. Wikipedia offers a general introduction to this topic here. Ioanna Sitaridou is working on documenting this variety. Here you could read about the linguistic profile of Romeyka: http://www.romeyka.org/the-linguistic-profile-of-romeyka. You could also see the introduction to her interest and work on this project from the Youtube video below. I have also added more videos where you can listen to this variety along with Modern Greek subtitles. If you want more information about this important project you could check its website here: http://www.romeyka.org/the-romeyka-project




Saturday, March 17, 2018

Original Documents from Ancient Alexandria



Original Documents from Ancient Alexandria

A translation of all documents from ancient Alexandria that survive on papyrus.
Work in progress by Peter van Minnen



[Retrieved from original website on 17-3-2018]

Original documents from Ancient Alexandria! Wish it were true? It is true.

On this web site we at UC present a work in progress: a translation with introduction and notes of all documents from ancient Alexandria that survive on papyrus. There are hundreds such documents – even thousands. Just imagine a stack of such texts from ancient Rome or Athens – the whole world would be all over it! A similar project was undertaken for the documents found on the island of Elephantine in southernmost Egypt (B. Porten ed., The Elephantine Papyri in English, 1996), so why not for Alexandria on the other, Mediterranean, end?

Recent archaeological work in Alexandria and its harbor have created a lot of interest among those who cannot be expected to know about, let alone read, original Greek documents. They will want to bookmark this page.


Continue...

Thursday, January 11, 2018

The DCC Greek List is now available in Arabic

The Dickinson College Commentaries (DCC)


According to Wikipedia, the DCC is  a digital project of Dickinson College, which is located in Carlisle, near Harrisburg, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The project assembles digital commentaries on texts in Latin and ancient Greek and publishes core vocabularies of the most common words in those languages. It is hosted by the department of Classical Studies, see also here for the entry in the Digital Classics Wiki.

The DCC  Greek vocabualry list of this porject is now available in Arabic translation where one can both search and browse it, see it here: http://dcc.dickinson.edu/ar/greek-core-list-arabic. According to the project director, Christopher Francese , "This list contains about 500 of the most common words in ancient Greek. These are the lemmas or dictionary headwords that generate approximately 65% of the word forms in a typical Greek text." To know more details about this valuable learning resource see the project's website here:http://dcc.dickinson.edu/. They have also a Facebook page and a Twitter account.

Thursday, January 4, 2018

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) (ISSN 2161-0002)

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)

[Retrieved from the website of IEP on 2018, January 1]

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) (ISSN 2161-0002) was founded in 1995 to provide open access to detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. The Encyclopedia receives no funding, and operates through the volunteer work of the editors, authors, volunteers, and technical advisers. At present, the IEP has over a million visitors per month, and about 20 million page views per year. The Encyclopedia is free of charge and available to all users of the Internet world-wide. The staff of 30 editors and approximately 300 authors hold doctorate degrees and are professors at universities around the world, most notably from English-speaking countries.

Dr. Noha A. Salem; the new director of Ain Shams Center of Papyrological Studies

A New Director of Ain Shams Centre of Papyrological Studies

It is my pleasure to announce that my colleague in the department of Ancient European Civilisation Assistant Prof. Dr. Noha A. Salem has been appointed (effective from 1.1.2018) as the new director of Ain Shams University's Centre of Papyrological Studies. The centre, as you all know, publishes annually since 1985 the only Egyptian periodical specialised in papyrology i.e. BullCPS = Bulletin of the Centre of Papyrological Studies. The Bulletin has now a new editor-in-chief.

As I am looking forward to seeing the BullCPS in its new shape under the new direction, I would like to congratulate Prof. Noha Salem for this appointment and wish her all the success in her endeavours to promote the centre, the bulletin and the whole field of papyrology in Egypt. In this regard, I am also quite sure that Prof. Noha Salem will continue her cooperation with me, the department, Ain Shams institute for papyrology, all the papyrologists worldwide and all the papyrological institutions around the globe.

To know more about "us", visit our blog here:https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/about/.
If you do not know what "the 28th ICP" is, please, go here: http://papyrologia.upf.edu/

DAAD Virtual Information Session: Monday, 8th January 2018, 10:00 am – 11:30 am.


DAAD Virtual Information Session

Join us for the Online Information Session about the GERLS Programme.

The webinar is organized by the DAAD Office in Cairo on Monday, 8th January 2018, 10:00 am – 11:30 am.

Target group of this information session are PhD candidates.

Should you be interested to participate in this session, please follow this link on the above-mentioned date and time.

https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/r437jxxg5yd9/

The access will be limited to 40 participants online.

Please note the following technical requirements needed to participate in the webinar:
· 1.4GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or faster processor (or equivalent) for Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows 7 or Windows 8; 2GHz Pentium 4 or faster processor (or equivalent) for Windows Vista®
· Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
· 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) for Windows XP, Windows 7 or Windows 8; 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended) for Windows Vista
· Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, 10; Mozilla Firefox; Google Chrome
· Adobe® Flash® Player 10

Programme:

10:00 am – 10:45 am
Presentation on GERLS Programme
10:45 am – 11:30 am
Questions & Answers



Presenter of the Virtual Information Session for that Day is:
Mrs. Heba Ahmed
Programme Coordinator
DAAD Cairo Office

SUMMER COURSE IN PAPYROLOGY


SUMMER COURSE IN PAPYROLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, 18-22 JUNE 2018

The Dept. of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo and the Papyrus Collection of the University of Oslo Library invite applications for participation in the summer course in Papyrology to take place in Oslo 18-22 June 2018. The course gives 5 ECTS credit points. Coursework includes lectures, supervised work with papyri from the collection, and a written assignment (see details below). The focus will be on Greek and Coptic papyrology in keeping with the holdings of the Oslo collection.

The course is designed for advanced bachelor, master, and early PhD students of Classics, Ancient History, Egyptology and related subjects. Participants will hear lectures on the contents and classification of papyri, editorial method, and the socio-historical and linguistic context of papyri from Egypt from Hellenistic times to late Antiquity. They will also work with an unpublished papyrus (Greek or Coptic depending on their linguistic competence), the edition of which constitutes the written assignment (work with the edition will begin in Oslo under supervision and will be continued after the course; if the academic quality of the submitted work is satisfactory, a revised version of the edition may be included in forthcoming volumes of Oslo papyri). A session will be dedicated to the basics of papyrus conservation and will be followed by practical exercises in papyrus conservation.

Lecturers:

Anastasia Maravela (University of Oslo)
Joanne Vera Stolk (University of Oslo/Ghent University)
Ágnes Tothné Mihálykó (University of Oslo)
Jens Mangerud (University of Oslo)
Jörg Graf (Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig)
Jenny Cromwell (University of Copenhagen)



Formal requirements: a minimum of 30 ECTS credits in ancient Greek or an introductory course in the Coptic language. Full participation in the lectures and the supervised work is required to be eligible to submit the written assignment and receive the creditation.


Please submit your application by March 1st, 2018 to anastasia.maravela@ifikk.uio.no

The application should include:

- A letter of motivation (including the preference for working with a Greek or a Coptic papyrus)
- CV including relevant exam results
- A letter of recommendation by an academic teacher/tutor, which describes the candidate's academic record, knowledge of the relevant language (Greek and/or Coptic) and previous acquaintance with papyrology.

Expenses

- There is no course fee.
- Course materials will be sent to successful applicants in electronic form.
- Accommodation in Oslo will be covered for successful applicants.
- Participants must pay their travel expenses.

The organisers
Anastasia Maravela Joanne Stolk Ágnes T. Mihálykó

Professor of Ancient Greek/ Co-editor of Symbolae Osloenses
Dept. of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas
University of Oslo
Pb. 1020 Blindern
0315 Oslo

Website: http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/people/aca/classics/tenured/anastasm/

Friday, December 22, 2017

New Publication 2016: Roman London's First Voices

Roman London's First Voices
 Writing Tablets from the Bloomberg Excavations, 2010–14


[From the website of Oxbow books; December 22, 2017]

This publication presents research into Britain’s largest, earliest and most significant collection of Roman waxed writing tablets. The collection, which boasts the first hand-written document known from Britain, was discovered during archaeological excavations for Bloomberg. The formal, official, legal and business aspects of life in the first decades of Londinium are revealed, with appearances from slaves, freedmen, traders, soldiers and the judiciary. Aspects of the tablets considered include their manufacture, analysis of the wax applied to their surfaces, their epigraphy and the content of over 80 legible texts.

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Conference: Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods


The development of the historical profession in the Arab World since 1945 has received scant attention from Western scholars of the region. This is particularly the case regarding modern Arabic studies on Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Even in the field of medieval Islamic history, there is generally little awareness on the part of scholars based in the West, about the research and publications of their colleagues in the Arabic-speaking countries. As a consequence, Arabic secondary sources are rarely utilized and reviewed by Western historians of the medieval Islamic period.

Our conference aims to address this serious bibliographical gap. We will bring together an international group of specialists in a variety of pre-modern historical disciplines ranging from Assyriology to Mamluk Studies who will discuss contemporary Arabic-language scholarship in their respective fields. Some presentations will give an overview of a particular discipline across the entire Arabic-speaking World while others will focus on an historiographical “school” or a single major scholar as a case study. The conference will be a stepping-stone in the production of a multi-author handbook which will consist of studies and bibliographies of Arabic scholarship on Ancient and Medieval history.






Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Reissue of Byzantium and the Arabs of Irfan Shahîd

Reissue of Byzantium and the Arabs of Irfan Shahîd

Dumbarton Oaks has announced that all seven volumes of Irfan Shahîd’s monumental Byzantium and the Arabs, published by Dumbarton Oaks Publications, are available for free download from their website here: https://www.doaks.org/newsletter/byzantium-and-the-arabs 


Friday, October 13, 2017

Seneca's Agamemnon Performed in Arabic

The fabula crepidata Agamemnon of Seneca the Younger is performed in Arabic based on the professional translation of Prof. Abdel Moaty Shaarawy, see the post about this translation here .


The performance was produced by the cultural program of the Egyptian Radio (Radio Cairo) and now available on the You Tube channel of this program.


Seneca's Medea performed in Arabic

The fabula crepidata Medea of Seneca the Younger is performed in Arabic based on the professional translation of Prof. Abdel Moaty Shaarawy, see the post about this translation here .



The performance was produced by the cultural program of the Egyptian Radio (Radio Cairo) and now available on the You Tube channel of this program. Medea is done by the famous Egyptian actress Samira Abdelaziz. It is a familiar voice for every Egyptian as she is moderating, since 1975 until today, a radio program called "Said the philosopher", in which she, as a female student with an angelic voice, asks a certain philosopher about a certain virtue. Now, as a Medea, she lectures us about her the virtue of revenge !


Thursday, October 12, 2017

The Historcial Context of Homer's Iliad: A Lecture in Arabic (Kuwait, 1975 or 88?)

The Historcial Context of Homer's Iliad

The You Tube hosts an extensive lecture in Arabic about the historical context of Homer's Iliad. The lecture is delivered by one of the pioneering Egyptian classicists and papyrologists; Prof. Abdellatif Ahmed Ali. It is uploaded by his son Dr. Moones Ali (Thanks, Dr. Moones, for this valuable addition). Prof. Ali took his PhD from University of Michigan in 1949. He came back to teach in Cairo University (department of Classics and History) until 1974. In this year he moved to Kuwait, where he was teaching Greek and Roman History. The lecture seems to be delivered in Kuwait in 1975 or after this year. In the calendar behind the moderator, I can see a date reading Monday 15/4/88 or 85. With a map and extensive knowledge of the Greek history and mythology, he relates the epic as well as the modern history of scholarship about it in a very interesting, sensational and lively (sometimes theatrical) manner as evidenced by the audience' laughter. Enjoy watching and hearing !

Part I


Part II

Part III

Part IV

The Iliad: A Radio Drama in Arabic based on Homer's Iliad

The Iliad: A Radio Drama in Arabic



The Egyptian Radio has produced a Radio drama in Arabic based on Homer's Iliad. It is unknown when this drama was broadcasted, but most probably after 1967. This approximate date is based on the fact that Ali Azzab, one of the two writers of the drama, graduated from the higher institute for theatrical fine arts in Cairo in 1967.  The second writer of the drama is Helal Abouamer. No more information is available about the second writer or this adaptation. Fortunately You Tube hosts the full audio (about two hours) of this piece.



According to Wikipedia, a radio drama is "a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension".

Thursday, October 5, 2017

The Algerian Iliad by Cheikh Zakaria (1908-1977)

The Algerian Iliad by Cheikh Zakaria (1908-1977)


The Algerian Iliad is an epic poem of 1001 verse lines composed by Cheikh Zakaria (1908-1977), the poet of the Algerian revolution, to celebrate the long history of the Algerian people's resistance against foreign occupations from "the most ancient times to the present day", as  Mouloud Kacem (1927-1992), the famous  Algerian politician, philosopher, historian, and writer, stated in the preface of the printed poem. Mouloud Kacem was the one who commissioned Cheikh Zakaria to compose this poem. With its 1001 verse lines, it is not only an Iliad, but a clear parody to One Thousand and One Nights of the famous folk tales know as Arabian Nights.


A first short version of this poem of only 610 verse lines was recited by Cheikh Zakaria himself in the inauguration of the sixth conference of the Islamic thought on July 24, 1972 in Club of Pines in Algeria where Houari Boumédiène (1932-1978), Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, was one of the participants. There is a recording on You Tube where one can listen to the very sensational recitation by the author himself. Here it is:




Tuesday, September 12, 2017

The Arabs and the European Civilization (1975) by Mohamed Mofid Alshobashi

I have found another title exploring the relationship between the Arabs and the European Civilization. It is "The Arabs and the European Civilization (1975)" by Mohamed Mofid Alshobashi. It has no content as it just an introduction to the topic to be read during a bus journey or so. This is evident from the book description in from of the title "Ketab Geb" i.e. a small book that fits in ones' pocket and one could finish reading it in a bus journey. The current book is only 124 small pages long and was appeared in Cairo and Baghdad in the same time in 1975.


The Myth of European Civilization by Atia Amer 1990

Searching the print culture of modern and contemporary Egypt for "The European Civilization", I found a book titled "The Myth of  The European Civilization" by Atia Amer. The book is published in 1990 by the still operating The Anglo-Egyptian Publishing House (https://www.anglo-egyptian.com/en/). Unfortunately, the title is not to be found in their online catalog neither I can find a digital copy of it online. This book is wanted. I hope someday I will catch it.


The Influence of the Arabs on the European Civilizaton by Abbās Mahmūd al-Aqqād (1889 –1964)

The Influence of the Arabs on the European Civilization is one of the latest books of  Abbās Mahmūd al-Aqqād (1889 –1964), the famous Egyptian intellectual and author. The book was first published by Dar el-Maarif in 1960 with many subsequent unaltered editions, which may indicate the wide popularity of this title. The last of these editions is published in 2013 by Hindawi charity foundation. You can download a free version (kindle, pdf or ePub) of it from here:http://www.hindawi.org/books/57380918/ . Here is the book cover and the content.




Monday, August 28, 2017

Saturday, May 13, 2017

برنامج ديوجينيس وموقع معلومات البردى (papyri.info)


مش عايز أعمل زى حكمدار القاهرة وأقول للسيد أحمد إبراهيم الساكن فى درب النحاس “لا تشرب الدواء ، الدواء فيه سمُ قاتل” لكن حبيت أعرفكم بحادثة حصلت اليوم على فيسبوكى. إستمتعوا !

لا تستخدموا ديوجينيس هناك الآن موقع كامل فيه النصوص البردية بأحدث تعديلاتها.

من لحظات عرض زميل لينا هنا نص إيصال ضريبة الحمامات فى مصر الرومانية ( ?O.Edfou II 293(Apollonopolis, 91 – 92 ) لكن لاحظت عدة أشياء غير متفقة مع ما أعرفه عن علم البردى. أنا بعرضها هنا مرة تانية عشان أهميتها.

أولاً برنامج ديوجينيس برنامج جيد لكنه تعليمى . البرنامج يمكن تحميله من خلا الضغط هنا. وبالأسفل صورة للصفحة الرئيسة فى موقع ديوجينيس.




لكن المرجع دائما هو النشر العلمى الذى يجب أن يوثق كما وضعت الوثيقة فوق : أولا حرف يدل على نوع الوثيقة (O.) يدل على انها أوستراكة ثم اسمها ( إدفو ) ثم المجلد رقم 2 ثم رقم الوثيقة وأخيرا بين قوسين مكان الوثيقة وتاريخها.

ثانياً نصوص كل الوثائق متاحة كما ذكرت أكثر من مرة بالمجان وبشكل أكثر تحديثا مما عليه فى الكتب وبها صورة ومراجع وتعديلات لا تراها فى الكتب على موقع (Papyri.info). أضغط هنا للدخول إلى هذا الموقع.




النص يجب أن يعرض كما هو يعنى الحروف اليوناينة لها معنى كبير فى النصوص فهى تعبر عن أرقام. كان سؤاله عن رقم يقع قبل رمز ((ἔτους)) اللى بيدل على السنة، والرقم كان منقول غلط لإنه منقول من برنامج ديوجينيس ( مكتبو بحروف عربية هكذا 11) وليس كما هو فى النص: ι̣α (ἔτους فى السطر الأول و (ἔτους) ι̣α̣) فى السطر التانى. النقطة تحت الحرف الثانى وهو حرف الألفا بتعبر عن إن قراءة هذا الحرف غير مؤكدة ولذلك هتلاقوا علامة استفهام قبل تاريخ الوثيقة بسب إنه مشكوك في القراءة.

أخيرا بالنسبة للغة اليونانية: هو أصر إن فيه حرفة للحمامات العامة (βαλανευτικόν) فى مصر الرومانية وده شئ جديد عليه تمام ولما حبيت أستفهم منه إيه ده قال إن مشرفه هو اللى قاله كده وذكر بالحرف” تقدر تعترض عليه؟| ردى كان كلمة واحدة طبعا. بصراحة أن آسف إنى أقول الكلام ده لكن فى اللغة بالذات أنا بعترض على أى حد. بالانيتكون وفقا لبرايزجا (Preisigke) وهو قاموس معانى الكلمات اليونانية الواردة فى الوثائق البردية بيقول إنه =Badebetrieb betrefend) يعنى بالعربى “متعلق بالحمامات” أى ضريبة الحمامات. مش حرفة الحمامات زى ما هو أصر وفضل مصر لغاية نهاية الحوار بل إنفعل وصدر منه ألفاظ لا تليق ، سرعان ما حذفها كلها ما عدا ما هو عندى فى الخاص.

ما ياخذ من ذلك : أولاً برنامج ديوجينيس لا يعتد بيه والنصوص الواردة فيه قديمة للغاية ومن الأفضل استخدام موقع (Papyri.info). ثانياً اللغة مثل الرياضة واحد زائد واحد بيساوى 2 ( حتى لو كل الناس قالوا 3 هعترض عليهم برده !). ثالثاً النص اليونانى ينقل كما هو بحروفه ولا تغير الحروف اليونانية وتستبدل بحروف عربية.

أرجو إنى أكون عرضت شئ قد يفيد، وأنا على استعداد للمساعدة دائما لكل من يطرق باب فيسبوكى المفتوح للجميع. هنا هتلاقوا نص البردية من على موقع معلومات البردى (http://papyri.info/ddbdp/o.edfou;2;293) وعلى فكرة ده وصلة دائمة يعنى ابدية لن تزول إلا بزوال الانترنت نفسه.



ومرفق طبعا الصورة اللى هو شيرها ( من برنامج ديوجينيس) عشان يبان الفرق.

قائمة إختصارات مجلدات البردى اليونانى و اللاتينى والديموطيقى والقبطى (البردى و الأوستركا والألواح)

يحتوى هذا العرض على (أ) قائمة الإختصارات القديمة (ب) قائمة الإختصارت الجديدة ومميزاتها (ج) كيفية البحث فى قائمة الإختصارات الجديدة  من خلال (ctr+f) مع فيديو شرح.
معلومة أخرى أردت أن أنشرها اليوم على الموقع فى أول أيام إنطلاقه. المعلومة تتعلق بقائمة إختصارات مجلدات البردى اليونانى و اللاتينى والديموطيقى والقبطى (البردى و الأوستركا والألواح) والمعروفة باللغة الإنجليزية بهذا الشكل :
Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca, and Tablets

هذه القائمة هى القائمة المعتمدة فى المنشورات العلمية فى مجال البردى ولا يصح أن يختصر أى مجلد أو نشر علمى بخلاف ذلك.

(أ) قائمة الإختصارات القديمة :

القائمة كانت متاحة لمدة طويلة على هذا الموقع (http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/papyrus/texts/clist.html). وهذا هو شكل الموقع

ب) قائمة الإختصارت الجديدة ومميزاتها:

لكن هذا الموقع على الرغم من أنه لايزال متاح ، إلا أنه سوف يتم التخلى عنه فى القريب العاجل، لأن القائمة إنتلقت إلى موقع معلومات البردى هنا :

الجديد فى هذا الأمر أن قائمة الإحتصارات لم تعد قائمة تحتوى على الإختصارات فقط بل أصبح من الممكن الوصول المباشر للنصوص المنشورة فى المجلد بمجرد الضغط على إختصار المجلد. فعلى سبيل المثال: فى الصورة التى نشرتها هنا للقائمة نرى إختصار المجلد الأول من برديات برلين (BGU) لونه أحمر لأننى ضغط عليه من قبل وتصفحت نصوصه. أما المجلد الثانى فلونه أزرق ، ولو ضغطت عليه سوف يظهر لك الشكل التالى الذى يعرض 285 وصلة (285 hits) تحتوى كل وصلة على نص من نصوص هذا المجلد.

شكل تلقائى يعرض المتصفح 15 وصلة فى كل صفحة ، لكن يمكن للمرء أن يزيد عدد هذه الوصلات كما يحب من ( 1-999) من خلال مسح الرقم 15 بجوار (Records per page) ووضع الرقم الذى يرغب فيه مثلا 285 وسوف يظهر له كل الوصلات فى هذا المجلد.

(ج) كيفية البحث فى قائمة الإختصارات الجديدة  من خلال (ctr+f) مع فيديو شرح.

ونظرا لأن القائمة الجديدة هى فى طور التجريب لايوجد بها تبويبات مثل القائمة القديمة . ولكى يحل المرء هذا الأمر يمكنه أن يستخدم مربع البحث فى متصفحه هو من خلال الضغط على (ctrl+f) فى لوحة المفاتيح الخاصة بجهازه للبحث عما يريد. ويظهر الفيديو التالى بحثى عن مجلد P.Soter و Preisigke و P.Cair من خلال هذا الأمر.

وكي المصادر الرقمية للدراسات الكلاسيكية (Digital Classicist Wiki)

ما هو الويكي؟
ويكي (بالإنجليزية: wiki) هو نوع من المواقع الإلكترونية يسمح للزوار بإضافة المحتويات وتعديلها دون أية قيود في الغالب، وللمزيد عن الويكي أنظر هذا المقال المفصل من ويكيبيديا عن الويكي.
ماهو ويكي ا المصادر الرقمية للدراسات الكلاسيكية؟ 
الموقع عبارة عن تجمع للدراسين والباحثين فى مجال رقمنة الكلاسيكيات (اللغة اليوناينة واللاتينية) وإستخدام التكنولوجيا الحديثة فى دراسة العالم القديم والبيزنطي. يقوم موقع الوكي بتجميع كل الإرشادات والمقترحات المتعلقة بالمشاكل التقنية التى يوجهها كل من يعمل فى هذا المجال. بالإضافة إلى ذلك يقوم موقع الوكي بسرد كل مشاريع رقمنة الكلاسيكيات وما ينتج عن هذه المشاريع من أدوت و برامج. ليس هذا فقط ، بل يقوم الموقع بإستمرار بعرض أجندة اللقاءات التى تخص هذا المجال و كذلك المراجع المتخصصة فى هذا المجال سواء اكترونية رقمية أو مطبوعة بالإضافة إلى كل جديد فى هذا المجال. وللمزيد حوال موقع الوكى أنظر هنا المقال التعريف الأصلي باللغة الإنجليزية.
فى الأسفل يستطيع الباحث أن يرى الصفحة الرئيسية لموقع الويكى، بالإضافة إلى سهم أحمر يشير إلى القسم الذى تستطيع من خلاله التعرف على المشروعات والأدوات و البرامج التى تهمك أو تهتم بالتعرف عليها.