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.