09.00–10.30

Registration in the Foyer and Garden Room

Refreshments in the Denis Murphy Gallery

WELCOME

In the Sir Humphrey Cripps Auditorium 

10.30–10.45

Dr Mandana Barkeshli

Chairman of The Islamic Manuscript Association and Associate Professor, Head of Department, Department of Applied Arts and Design, Faculty of Architecture and Environmental Design, International Islamic University Malaysia

Prof. Charles Melville

President of The Islamic Manuscript Association; Professor of Persian History, University of Cambridge; and Director, Shahnama Project

Mr R. B. Davidson MacLaren

Executive Director of The Islamic Manuscript Association; Assistant Head, Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation; and Director Emeritus, Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation and Dar al-Kutub Manuscript Project

10.45–11.00

Introduction

11.00–11.45

In Search of Sufi Manuscripts

Prof. Carl W. Ernst

William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

11.45–12.30

Sufi Books and Their Significance in Islamic Heritage

Shaykh Omar Salem Ba Jukhaif

Founder, Dar al-Minhaj publishing and distribution and chairman of the board of trustees, Saqifat al-Safa Trust, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

12.30–13.00

Discussion

13.00–14.15

Lunch in the Denis Murphy Gallery 

14.15–15.45 

Workshop: Exploring Painted Works: The Islamic Painted Page Database(Room 5)

PANEL 1: COLLECTIONS I

In the Sir Humphrey Cripps Auditorium 

14.15–14.20

Chairperson’s Introduction

14.20–14.40

Sufi Authority in Early Modern Arabia: The Writings and Zawiya of Ahmad al-Qushashi

Mr Zacky Khairul Umam

PhD Candidate, Islamwissenschaft, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

14.40–15.00

Creating a Personal Library: Historical Practice and the Literary Tastes of a Sufi in Seventeenth-Century Bijapur

Mr Christopher D. Bahl

PhD Candidate, SOAS, University of London, London, UK

15.00–15.20

Scattered Manuscripts: Khwaja Muhammad Parsa’s Library

Dr Akram Khabibullaev

Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Central Eurasian Studies Librarian, Herman B. Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

15.20–15.40

Discussion

15.40–16.10

Refreshments in the Denis Murphy Gallery

 16.10–17.00

Workshop: Customizing Imaging Supports for Manuscript Digitization (Room 5)

PANEL 2: COLLECTIONS II

In the Sir Humphrey Cripps Auditorium 

16.10–16.15

Chairperson’s Introduction

16.15–16.35

The Sufi Manuscripts in the Heritage of 19th-Century Sokoto Caliphate Commanders: A study of their Structure, Content and Dimensions

Dr Ahmad Murtala

Deputy Dean and Lecturer, Department of Islamic Studies and Sharia, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria

16.35–16.55

Bibliotheca Alexandrina's Efforts for Caring for Sufi Manuscripts

Dr Medhat Issa Khalaf Eweis

Director, Manuscripts Centre, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt

16.55–17.15

The Manuscripts of a Sufi Scholar in Central Africa: A Description of The Library of Shaykh Makki 'Abdallah al-Tijani in Dabdab Chad 

Dr Mahamat Saleh Ayoub

Lecturer and Researcher, University of Ndjamena, N'Djamena, Chad

17.15–17.35

The Contribution of Yemini Sufi Lodges to the Preservation of Sufi Manuscripts: The Lodges of Tarim, Hadramawt as a Model

Mr Yasser Hashem Imad Alhiagi

PhD Candidate, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

17.35–18.00

Discussion

19.30

Dinner in the Old Hall, Magdalene College, Cambridge