Thanks to the generous support of Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, we are now in the midst of a multi-year project to digitize the manuscripts, improve metadata, and open access to students and scholars around the world. Other collection treasures include gorgeous Qur’ans and a range of literary works decorated with gold leaf and lapis lazuli from across the Muslim world. Highlights include illuminated items from royal Mamluk, Mughal, and Ottoman libraries scholarly works copied during or near the lifetimes of their authors and later autograph copies. The collection includes items that date from the ninth to the twentieth centuries, and spans all major Islamic disciplines and literary traditions. ST: The Library holds the largest and most important Islamic manuscript collection in Israel. As curator, my main responsibility is collection development, so I spend my days working to expand the Library’s holdings of books, periodicals, photographs, and other materials from and about the Middle East.ĬN: As Curator you oversee nearly 2500 Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts at the National Library of Israel, some of these are medical texts. I’ve been the Curator of the Islam and Middle East Collection at the National Library of Israel since 2021. Over the years, I’ve also worked as a journalist, a translator, and a researcher. Samuel Thrope: I was born and raised in Arlington, Massachusetts, and am still a proud New Englander! I moved to Israel in 2009 and began my career at the National Library of Israel in 2012 as a cataloger for Persian books. Where are you from? What do you do? What is your typical workday like? Ĭirculating Now: Please tell us a little about yourself. Circulating Now interviewed him about his research and upcoming talk. Thrope is Curator of the Islam and Middle East Collection at the National Library of Israel. This talk will be live-streamed globally, and archived, by NIH VideoCasting. Samuel Thrope, PhD will speak on Thursday, Jat 11:00 AM ET.
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