Vol. 9 No. 3 September 2003
Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental manuscript Research
CONTENTS
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EDITORIAL BOARD - 3
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TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH - 4
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F. Déroche. Analyser l'ecriture arabe. Remarques sur la "cursivité" - 4
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F. Richard. Autour de la naissance du nasta‘liq en Perse: les ecritures de Chancellerie et le foisonnement des styles durant les années 1350-1400 - 8
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E. Wright. The Calligraphers of Širaz and the Development of nasta‘liq Script - 16
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A. Gacek. The Head-serif (tarwis) and the Typology of Arabic Scripts: Preliminary Observations - 27
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TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION - 34
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S. Tourkin. Another Look on the Petition (‘ardada_t) by Ja‘far Baysunguri Addressed to his Patron Baysungur b. Šahruh b. Timur - 34
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Sh. S. Blair. Yaqut and his Followers - 39
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A. Erkinov. Die Eigenschaften der Biicher volkstümlicher Verbreitung. Der Beispiel des Diwan-i Hikmat des Ahmad Yasawi - 48
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PRESENTING THE COLLECTIONS - 52
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Sh. Vahidov. Les particularités paléographiques et codicologiques des fonds particuliers de Rawnaqi et Faqiri (Šahrisabz, Ouzbékistan) - 52
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Sh. Ziyadov. Taschkenter Handschriften über das Milieu Bucharischer Theologen in 13. und 14. Jahrhunderten - 56
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A. Muminov. Die Bedeutung der Handschriften aus der Bibliothek des Hwaja Muhammad Parsa für die Erforschung des hanafitischen Gelehrtenmilieus von Buhara - 59
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PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT - 63
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J. Sourdel. Un modèle exceptionnel parmi les certificats de pèlerinage ayyoubides - 63
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LIBRARIES AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
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Towards an exchange network of Arabic authority records. Round Table (Part III) - 69
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A. Bernard. Compte rendu / Report - 69
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AUTHORS
Dr. Sheila Blair - Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian art at Boston College. Specialist in Islamic art.
Prof. Francois Déroche - Directeur d'études, Ecole pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences historiques et philologiques. Specialist in history of the book in the Muslim world, codicology and paleography.
Dr. Aftandil Erkinov - Assistant Professor at the National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, specialist in Chagatay literature, author of a numerous articles on Medieval Turkic literature and manuscripts.
Prof. Adam Gacek - Head of Islamic Studies Library and lecturer in Arabic manuscripts, McGill University (Montréal, Canada). Specialist in Islamic bibliography and manuscripts studies.
Dr. Ashirbek Muminov - Associate professor at the Tashkent State Institute for Oriental studies. Specialist in history of Islam in Central Asia.
Dr. Francis Richard - Chargé des collections, Louvre Museum, Department of the Arts of Islam. Specialist in codicology and history of Persian miniature painting.
Prof. Janine Sourdel-Thomine - Professor at the Sorbonne University and Ecole pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences historiques et philologiques. Specialist in archaeology and art history of the Islamic world.
Mr. Sergei Tourkin - Researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental studies. Specialist in Persian manuscripts and history of science in Iran.
Prof. Shodmon Vahidov - Researcher at the Tashkent Biruni Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, specialist in Muslim manuscripts tradition, author of a number of works devoted to the study of historical, cultural and religious aspects of Muslim manuscripts held in the Uzbek collections.
Dr. Elaine Wright - Curator of the Islamic collections, The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Research on manuscript production in 14th and 15th -century Iran.
Dr. Shavasil Ziyadov - Researcher at the Tashkent Biruni Institute Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, author of the series of works devoted to the religious and cultural heritage of late-Medieval Central Asia.
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