Most studies of the dissemination of knowledge among Islamicate societies have focused on the early Abbasid period, as well as the transport of manuscripts and the travel of people between al-Andalus, North Africa and the central Muslim lands until about the end of the Abbasid caliphate. A second field of research concerns their translations into Latin, derived vernaculars and into Hebrew in...
The talk will investigate the role of scholarly philological activity in the evolution and spread of knowledge by posing a number of historical cases for analysing the crucial importance of linguistic tools for the globalisation of knowledge. The cases will include that of Armenia, further of Georgia and Tibet, as well as the activities around creating the Cyrillic writing system, but will put...
