‘Le Coran vu d’ailleurs’ : Catalogue of the Exhibition at the National Library of Tunisia

Published by the Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain, Le Coran vu d’ailleurs accompanied the exhibition held at the National Library of Tunisia from 15 February to 30 April 2025. Edited by: Katia Boissevain, anthropologist and Director of the IRMC; Khaled Kchir, historian and Director of the National Library of Tunisia (BNT); John Tolan, professor, University of Nantes; Naima Afif, postdoctoral researcher, University of Copenhagen; and Jan Loop, professor, University of Copenhagen.

 

Couverture du catalogue Le Coran vu d’ailleurs, publié à l’occasion de l’exposition à la Bibliothèque nationale de Tunisie en 2025.

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Exhibition ‘Seeing the invisible’

naima afif, Syriac, exhibition, John Rylands, Library, Manchester

Discover how our research team at the University of Manchester is uncovering the lost heritage of Syriac Christians through the exhibition ‘Seeing the Invisible’.

Curated by Professor Peter Pormann and Dr Natalia Smelova, the  exhibition will run from October 2019 to March 2020 at the John Rylands Library and will display the Syriac Galen palimpsest for the first time in the UK.

For more information, see here.

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