Montag, 23.06.2025, 16.50-18.20, Raum N.316 | Monday, 23 June 2025, 4.50-6.20 pm, room N.316
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This presentation will explore the formation and current status of Islamic manuscript collections in Dagestan, focusing on private libraries, mosque-based waqf collections, and state archives. It will highlight three primary trajectories of private Islamic libraries—transformation, destruction, and conservation—and discuss the impact of state policies, social changes, and recent efforts to localize, digitize, and study these collections. Special attention will be given to the evolving approach to studying Islamic literary heritage in private and mosque collections.
Dr. Shamil Shikhaliev is currently based at the Institute of Iranian Studies, where he works on the research project “Probing the Horizons of a Daghestani Polymath: ‘Alī alGhumūqī and His Library (1878–1943)” (Principal Investigator: Dr. Paolo Sartori), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). His research interests include codicology, palaeography of Islamic manuscripts, Caucasian Arabic epigraphy, the history of the Islamic literary tradition in the eastern Caucasus, Islamic law, Sufism, reformism, and the broader history of Islam in the region.