28 February–1 March 2023: MprinT project meeting in Bergen

For two days, the now fully staffed MprinT team met in Bergen to take stock of our work thus far and share experiences from the field and from our readings.

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Project meeting
Back row: Scott Reese (University of Hamburg), Mohamed Aydaroos Noor (PhD student, UiB), Raphael Michaeli (PhD student UiB). Front row: Kjersti Larsen (University of Oslo), Hatice Kubra Nugay (post-doc, UiB), Anne K. Bang (UiB). Photo: UiB

Our project partners have collected thousands of digital images of a wide range of texts – from printed legal volumes to the most convoluted magic and astronomy fragments. One of our main challenges going forward will be catalgouing, and keeping order and system in the wealth of material. Above all, we discussed the core questions of the MpinT project: What changes and adappations can we see in this 19th-20th century corpus? What does this say about the manuscript-to-print transition and about the Islamic scriptural tradition during this shift?