Mohsen Zakeri, 1954-2024. A great philologist and a generous colleague, perhaps the first scholar to seriously investigate the premodern Persian-Arabic literary-historical interface in a series of fundamental articles on translation, aphorisms, and history uni-goettingen.academia.edu/…

"The translation itself was magisterially prepared by Anna Bailey Galietti, translator extraordinaire. Anna was an ideal choice as a formidable Francophile and a fellow scholar of early Islam." 👏👏👏👏

Is that person M. Telegram? t.me/LALELI_m etc...

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The Déroche reference is in the Tehran article. One could guess that this passage in Ibn Abi Usaybi'a might have been the impetus for the - otherwise idiosyncratic? - choice of thick paper and big thick letters??

Thank you @LoehrNadine! The authors of the Tehran study are confident on the radiocarbon dating to 1526-1796 CE, and Déroche agreed with Daneshpazuh and Badawi that this ms looked fake - so presumably the forgers must have been familiar with this passage from Ibn Abi Usaybi'a ?!

See the notes on figs. 5a and 5b in the article? I don't think I've ever seen كتب used for authorship like that? Then again, I've never seen an adab/falsafa work written in that script... for good reason!

وكذلك العالم....

Radiocarbon dating confirms fake "Hunayn b. Ishaq" signature at the University of Tehran. So ... not just @Stanford ☺️ academia.edu/96171595/Radioc… by Aghaei, Bahrololoumi, Hajdas, Jafarian, Kordavani, Marx

The Witkam note on Ethiopic palimpsest Quran forgeries is here fdr.uni-hamburg.de/record/62… with thanks to @CellardEleonore for the reference. I should stress that this purchase happened before @AnnaBigelow786 and I arrived @Stanford and before @bla222 took on Special Collections 🤪🤪

and poems: lyrics-of-ascent.net/portfol…. I attempted to stress along the same lines as your tweet that Hallaj didn't call himself a Neoplatonist: drive.google.com/file/d/1_Gl…. Is this all secularization? Hopefully not? Or not in an incompatible way?

It can be quite a useful label - so long as one remembers it is exactly "a very recent Western practice" as you say. There is a great recent collection of articles: global.oup.com/academic/prod…

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Schopenhauer to Houellebecq is literally from the sublime to the ridiculous

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Standing on the shoulders of giants😳 - most notably Mohsen Zakeri's articles on the same subject (uni-goettingen.academia.edu/…) and see also Lara Harb's JAOS article on macaronics....

arablit.org/humphrey/ The Shidyaq translation will last for centuries. Unsurpassable!