Persian Manuscripts in Balkans and Central Europe
Center for Iran, Balkans and Central European Studies
Bulgarian National Library “St, Cyril and Methodius’’
Sofia University ‘’St. Kliment Ohridski’’
23-24 February 2017
Center for Iran, Balkans and Central European Studies in partnership with the Cyril and Methodius National Library of Bulgaria, the “St. Kliment Ohridski” Sofia University, and Allameh Tabataba’i University are going to convene the international conference on “Persian Manuscripts in the Balkans and Central Europe”. The conference will be held in Sofia, with the contributions of scholars and researchers from 16 countries, expert in codicology. Scope of the topics to be discussed in this conference includes: Persian manuscripts; Persian documents; manuscripts about Iran in other languages; documents about Iran in other languages; and exploring Eastern manuscripts. Allameh Tabataba’i University (ATU) will publish the approved papers. Along with the conference, a workshop on “Codicology” will also be held.
Conference Program
- Akbar Irani “Mirase Maktub, Twenty-three years in the revival of Iranian culture and Civilization”
- Shervin Farridnejad: “Zoroastrian Manuscripts in Classical New Persian. The Manuscripts of Ṣad Dar in Central European Libraries: A Work in Progress”
- Davood Esparham: “Advantages and disadvantages of different methods of editing manuscripts”
- Mohammad Hassan Hassanzadeh Niri: “ Catalogues of Persian Manuscripts in Turkey“
- Iván Szántó: A Kashmiri Manuscript of the Shahname of Ferdowsi in Budapest”
- Shiva Mihan: “An unidentified Timurid Manuscript: the Musibat-nama of ‘Attar Nishapuri from Prince Baysunghur’s library”
- Zahra Parsapour: “Ghanun Al- Adab a treasure from Asia minor”
- Dariush Zolfaghari: “The importance of rhetoric in edition of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh”
- Maryam Mavadda: “Âdâb Al-Nesvân , Verses In Writing Of The ¼ Aqayed Al-Nesâ’,“
- Zohre Allahyari Dastjerdi: “Tradition of making collection and anthology in Persian language by focus on index of manuscript”
- Nigar Gozalova/Akram Bagirov: “On Bahman-Mirza’s Azerbaijani Collection”
- Fariba Jabbari: “Maqazi Al-Nabi Verse narrative of the life of Prophet”
- Katerina Venedikova: “Persian texts and Persian elements in manuscripts and epigraphic monuments from the Ottoman times”
- Alireza Hoseini: “Parvardeie khial, a Manuscript from Mahmood Mirza Qajar”
- Mahmood Heidari: “Omdatol Bolaqa va Eddatol Fosaha, A manuscript from Rashid aldin Vatvat”
- Elham Malekzadeh: “The geography of the Caucasus, Almanak, survivor from the era of the Naseraldin King of Qajar”
- Yashar Abdolselamoghlu: “Story of occupation of Bulgaria by Ottomans- Edris Bitlisi“
- Namir Karahalilovic: “An Overview of the Persian Manuscript Collections in Bosnia-Herzegovina”
- Nermin Hodzic: “A Copy of the “Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya” from Gazi Husrev-Beg Library in Sarajevo”
- Ahmed Zildzic: “Two Copies of the Bahjat al-Tawarikh in the Balkans”
- Saeid Abedpour: “Tradition of Masnavi-khani in Bosnia-Herzegovina”
- Sabaheta Gačanin,: “Poetic Manuscripts of Islamic Canon as Cultural Memory”
- Miklos Sarkozy: “Persian Manuscripts in the Oriental Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences“
- Mojdeh Mohammadi: “Persian Manuscript in Hungarian Academy of Science”
- Saeed Safari: “The introduction to Persian manuscripts in the Central Library of the University of Belgrade”
- Tatjana Pai -Vukic: “Persian Manuscripts in Croatian Collections”
- Stoyanka Kenderova: “Persian book in the library of Osman Pazvantoglu in Vidin / 1837”
- Nematollah Iranzadeh: “A manuscript from Vahid Tabrizi in Bulgarian National Library”
- Ivo Panov: “Diwan-e Hafez Manuscripts in National Library”
- Elisaveta Mousakova: “The Illumination of Manuscript Catalogues“
- Nona Petkova: “Accepting and Respecting the Traditions of Others – Examples of Coexistence“
- Morteza Nouraei: “The Evaluation of Iranian studies through Ottoman Turkish Documents preserved in the National Library of Sofia- Bulgaria”
- Anka Stoilova: “The work with manuscript fragments before their cataloguing”
- Hatije Berber: “Presentation of textbooks for teaching Persian language in Ryushdiye schools”
- Sheyda Rahimi: “An Overview of the Persian Manuscript Catalogue in Bulgarian National Library”