Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 6
3. Preface 12
4. Introduction 16
5. 1 The Ancient Near East
6. NINO’S BÖHL COLLECTION OF CUNEIFORM TABLETS
7. Introduction 39
8. The Lion Gate at Hattusa on a Glass Slide 48
9. Persepolis in the Eyes of Charles Chipiez 51
10. EGYPTOLOGIS TS AND THEIR BOOKS : THE EGYPTOLOGY LIBRARY OF NINO
11. Introduction 52
12. The Description de l’Égypte: from Napoleon to Egyptology 61
13. 2 Materiality Matters
14. MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS AND BINDING PRACTICES: THE CODEX IN THE MIDDLE EAST
15. Introduction 63
16. Dala’il al-Khayrat or “The Waymarks of Benefits”: a Devotional Work on the Prophet Muhammad 74
17. THE STARS IN LEIDEN: LISTENING TO THE STORIES OF ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS
18. Introduction 77
19. Material and Textual Ties in a Yemeni Manuscript 86
20. DECORATED PAPERS IN ISLAMICATE MANUSCRIPTS
21. Introduction 89
22. Layers of Information in a Mamluk Manuscript 98
23. 3 The Great Arabic Heritage
24. THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD
25. Introduction 101
26. An Ancient Fragment of the Qur’an 113
27. JACOBUS GOLIUS AND HIS ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS ON THE EXACT SCIENCES
28. Introduction 114
29. Manuscripts as Illustrations of a Living Medical Tradition 125
30. THE AMIN ALMADANI COLLECTION OF ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS
31. Introduction 126
32. The Earliest Sound Recordings from Arabia 136
33. 4 The Splendour of the Ottomans
34. LEVINUS WARNER’S MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
35. Introduction 139
36. A Natural History of the Americas and the Ottoman Economy 150
37. The Kitab-ı Cihan-Nüma printed by İbrahim Müteferrika 153
38. A WOMAN ON A BANKNOTE: FATMA ALİYE AND WOMEN AUTHORS IN THE LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
39. Introduction 156
40. A Cut Above the Rest 166
41. WOUTER SWETS : MUSICIAN, COMPOSER, AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST (1930–2016) 169
42. 5 Persian Refinement
43. SHAHNAMAH: THE LONGEVITY OF THE PERSIAN BOOK OF KINGS 181
44. HAKIM SANAʾI ’ S GARDEN OF TRUTH AND LAW OF THE RIGHT PATH
45. Introduction 194
46. The Materiality of a Hafiz Manuscript 204
47. IMAGES FROM THE HOTZ PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION: DUTCH COMMERCIAL VENTURES IN QAJAR PERSIA
48. Introduction 207
49. A Wedding Ceremony in Late Qajar Iran 216
50. The Rubaʿiyat of Umar Khayyam 219
51. 6 The Other Orient: Religions and Languages
52. HEBREW MANUSCRIPT TREASURES AT LEIDEN: A PERSONAL NOTE
53. Introduction 221
54. A Result of Jewish-Christian Cooperation in Twelfth-Century England: The Hebrew Psalter Or. 4725 233
55. A Dutch-Ashkenazi Esther Scroll for Purim 234
56. LEIDEN AND THE CHRISTIAN MIDDLE EAST: THE BIBLE IN ARABIC, ARMENIAN, AND SYRIAC
57. Introduction 236
58. A Psalter and its Mahdar 246
59. A Coptic-Arabic Lectionary and Homilies 249
60. TASHELHIYT BERBER MANUSCRIPTS IN ARABIC CHARACTERS 250
61. 7 The World of Orientalism
62. THE EXCHANGEABLE SULTAN: JAN LUYKEN AND MEHMED IV 259
63. SCALIGER AND HIS COLLECTION OF ARABIC BOOKS 268
64. DUTCH ILLUSTRATORS OF THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
65. Introduction 280
66. The “Indolent and Vicious Disposition” of the Moroccans 290
67. MAPS OF THE MIDDLE EAST 292
68. THE ZANZIBARLEIDEN CONNECTION: SAYYIDA SALME BINT SAʿID IBN SULTAN – EMILY RUETE (1844– 1924) 314
69. SNOUCK HURGRONJE, THE COLLECTOR
70. Introduction 324
71. Émile Prisse d’Avennes’s Search for Egyptian Art and Architecture 336
72. FRANK SCHOLTEN: MODERNITY AND THE BIBLICAL LENS 338
73. 8 Modern Times
74. “THE MECCA OF CULTURE, KNOWLEDGE AND LITERATURE”: ARABIC BOOK COVERS BET WEEN 1960 AND 1980
75. Introduction 351
76. “They’re Driving Me Crazy”: Egyptian Screen Goddesses and Western Fashion 364
77. TURKISH FEMALE WRITERS CONTEMPLATING THEIR POSITION IN TURKISH SOCIETY
78. Introduction 367
79. A Pop-Up of the Great Mosque of Mecca 375
80. The Mediterranean in Leiden’s Photo Collections: Ad van Denderen’s So Blue So Blue 376
81. MOSTAPHA NAJI AND THE MAKING OF THE MOROCCAN COLLECTIONS IN LEIDEN 379
82. About the Authors 389