This intensive week-long workshop focuses primarily on introducing graduate students to the methodology and techniques necessary to produce a critical edition of an Arabic text transmitted through multiple manuscripts. By describing, collating, systematically recording the variants, and establishing the stemma of the manuscripts, students will ultimately be guided toward establishing portions of the text at stake, based on the stemma and the analysis of the variants. The goal is to approximate as closely as possible the hypothetical original archetype, which is often no longer extant. Throughout this process students will learn how to use Classical Text Editor (CTE) which is a software designed to enable scholars to prepare a critical edition ready for publication which takes care automatically of making up, “text constitution, entries to different apparatus and updating them when the text has been changed, as well as creating and redefining sigla ».
Partnership with Institut français d’islamologie (IFI, France).
Students must have a good knowledge of Arabic and must bring with 
them their computer on which they would have uploaded, prior to the beginning of the workshop, the trial version of CT (https://cte.oeaw.ac.at/?id0=download). This version is free and is for Windows. Mac users can also use CTE following the instructions here: https://cte.oeaw.ac.at/?id0=linux
Emma Gannagé (AUB) with the collaboration of Jawdath Jabbour (CNRS, TDMAM UMR 7297, France) and Teymour Morel (University of Geneva and Swiss National Science Foundation)
Emma Gannagé is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut. Before joining AUB, she was for many years Associate Professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. She has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton). Her research interests include Graeco-Arabic and Islamic philosophy. She has published extensively on al-Kindī. Recently, she has been focusing on the epistemological aspect of the relationship between medicine and philosophy in the Arabic tradition at the turn of the 13th century. Among her recent publications: “Al-Kindī on Composition, Three-Dimensionality and Body, » MUSJ 69 (2021-22) and “How Does Opium Chill? A Radical Response to Avicenna on Natural Properties, » in M. Brinzei, I. Caiazzo et al. edd. Radical Thinking in the Middle-Ages (Brepols 2025). She is also the editor of the Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph.
Jawdath Jabbour is a research fellow at the CNRS (TDMAM, UMR 7297). He specializes in medieval Arabic philosophy. His research focuses mainly on the philosopher al-Fārābī (872-950), the relationship between philosophy and medicine, the philosophical doctrines of the soul, and philosophical reactions to the reception of Galen in the Abbasid period. He is also research also focuses on codicology and the history of Arabic philosophical manuscripts. He is the author of De la matière à l’intellect. L’âme et la substance de l’homme dans la pensée de Fārābī (Vrin, 2021). Since 2023, he is the coordinator of the project “Between Faith and Reason: Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in the Muslim West, » winner of a research grant “Pour une islamologie d’excellence » from the Institut français d’islamologie and he is currently preparing the edition of al-Fārābī’s Against Galen and, in collaboration with other researchers of Avicenna’s annotations on the De anima.
Alya Karame is currently a Research Associate at the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) where she specializes in Islamic art and material culture. Her work has been supported by numerous institutions, among which are: the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University; the Paris Region award at the Collège de France; the Khalili Research Centre at the University of Oxford; the Mellon Foundation at the American University of Beirut; and the Arab Funds for Arts and Culture. Central to her research are notions related to the Qur’an manuscript such as its biography and afterlife, and the cultural materiality of manuscripts. Her book will be published with Edinburgh University Press in 2025, entitled: The Forgotten Qur’ans of the Eastern Islamic World. Manuscripts of the Ghaznavid and Ghurid Dynasties, Eleventh–Twelfth Centuries CE.
Samar El Mikati El Kaissi is the Associate University Librarian for Archives and Special Collections at the American University of Beirut (AUB) Libraries. She holds an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons University, Boston, USA (2005). She is an active member of several professional organizations, including Beta Phi Mu (USA), The Islamic Manuscript Association (UK), the Lebanese Library Association, Modern Heritage Observatory (MOHO), UNESCO Memory of the World–Lebanon Committee, and the Society of Lebanese Custodians of Manuscripts. In 2014 she received the AUB President’s Service Excellence Award. She has presented at numerous national and international conferences, including the International Council on Archives (Scotland, 2007), MELCOM International (Berlin, 2011; Leiden, 2016), IFLA (Riga, 2012), and the Middle East Library Association (2020, 2022), among others. Her publications include several authored and co-authored articles among which “Manuscripts Ownership and Readership at the American University of Beirut, » (with Kaoukab Chebaro) in Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies: Life and Collections of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815–1905) in Context (Brill, 2019).
Teymour Morel (Ph.D. 2018, University of Geneva & EPHE, Paris) is a Swiss National Science Foundation “Ambizione » fellow and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Geneva. He has been a collaborator of the PhASIF program since its beginnings. Since 2021, he has been overseeing the revamping of the ABJAD online database. His areas of expertise include the critical edition of Arabic texts extant in numerous copies and the circulation and transmission of philosophy in the later period. He is the principal investigator of the research project titled “Arabic Philosophy through the Prism of the Diffusion of Its Manuscript Witnesses in The World: Averroes, al-Yānyawī, and al-Tūlāwī as a Case Study » (MAYT). His most recent publications include: “An Ottoman Reader and Annotator of Ibn Rushd’s Tahāfut: Yanyalı Esad Efendi, » in M. Sait Özervarlı, Cahid Şenel, and Harun Kuşlu (eds), Dönemi ve İlim Çevresi Işığında Yanyalı Esad Efendi, İSAM Yayınları, Istanbul, 2024, pp. 317-345; “Al-Yānyawī’s Prologue to the Translation of the Most Luminous Commentary on Logic: A Short Philosophical Manifesto, » Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph 69 (2021-2022), pp. 331-362; and [with Banafsheh Eftekhari] “An Unnoticed Fragment of the Ps.-Theology of Aristotle in a Manuscript of Averroes’ Talḫīṣ al-Manṭiq Preserved in Iran, » Studia graeco-arabica 13 (2023), pp. 223-229.
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Keynote lecture : by François Déroche (Collège de France), Monday April 28th
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