14 September 2016, Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK

We are pleased to announce that Drs Mandana Barkeshli and Stefanie Brinkmann were re-elected to second terms on the board of directors. Also elected were Prof. Jan Just Witkam, editor-in-chief of our Journal of Islamic Manuscripts and Emeritus Professor of Codicology and Paleography of the Islamic World at the University of Leiden, and Mr András Riedlmayer, Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

We would like to thank Dr Kinga Dévényi and Prof. Ayman Fu’ad Sayyid, both of whom retired after two terms on the board of directors, for their service and valuable contributions to the Association.

At the AGM, the Membership also approved the accounts for the year ending 31 March 2016 and appointed Dr Arthur Dudney as the audit trustee for 2017 and Mrs Catherine Ansorge as the deputy audit trustee.