The first exhibition of the European Qur’an project (EuQu) supported by the European Research Council will take place at the Weltmuseum in Vienna from September 18, 2024, to August 24, 2025. This year-long exhibition is part of a series exploring the presence and impact of the Qur’an in Europe.

Visitors will have the opportunity to discovers historical artefacts, manuscripts, and multimedia presentations which illustrate the Qur’an’s role in European intellectual, artistic, and religious history from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The exhibition opening will take place on 17 September 2025. Check the museum website to register.

New publication: Naima Afif, Peter E. Pormann, William I. Sellers, Natalia Smelova, Siam Bhayro, “GalenQt. A New Software Tool for Recovering Lost Text and its Use for the Reconstruction of the Lacuna in Galen’s Simple Drugs, Book 8”, in C. Rapp, J. Gruskova, G. Kessel, G. Rossetto (eds), New Light on Old Manuscripts: Recent Advances in Palimpsest Studies, Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, 2023, p. 441–463.

As part of my collaboration with the GREgORI Project – UCLouvain, Belgium – which provides scholars with lemmatized corpora in many languages, I have worked with Bastien Kindt on the lemmatisation and morphological analysis of:  Books 1 (ch. 1-10), 6, 7, 8 of the Greek text of Galen’s On Simple Drugs and Discourse 13 (S2 version) of Gregory of Nazianzus in Syriac (+than 1000 pages of outputs).

This large amount of data is now accessible through an online, open-access interface that integrates a concordancer, text browser, and editions viewer.

You can now explore how to use this digital tool here and make use of it.

The Congress ‘Humanizing Digitalization. Digitalizing Humanities’ organised by El Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid took place online on the 20 and 21th October 2021. In the first session devoted to text analysis, I explained how to create a multilingual corpus (in Latin, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic) by using the textual analysis software Sketch Engine and how to use this corpus to construct a glossary with Lexonomy an open-source, web-based dictionary writing and publishing system.

I am very happy to present you the result of my online collaboration with the John Rylands Library  in 2020. I have compiled TEI XML descriptions of Syriac manuscripts from the John Rylands Research Institute and Library’s collection.

This material was presented in the exhibition Seeing the Invisible (2019-2020) and is now accessible on the Manchester Digital Collections.

The University of Notre Dame and the ERC project The European Qur’an are organizing an International Workshop: Qur’an and Bible ( March 22-26, 2021).

This three-day event will explore the various ways in which Medieval and Early Modern Jewish, Christian and Muslim readers relate Biblical literature and Qur’an.

In line with my current research at the University of Copenhagen, I will present a paper, “Jesus and the Bible in a 18th-Century Translation of the Qur’an into Hebrew”. This contribution aims to discuss the relationship between the Qur’an and the Bible in an 18th-century Hebrew translation of the Qur’an, derived from Glazemaker’s Dutch, which in turn was based on Du Ryer’s French version.