Lecture Series on the History and Culture of the Zerafshan RegionMuhammad Parsa's (d. 1420) Library: History and Overview of the Collection.A lecture by Akram Khabibullaev, Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
21 June 2022
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We kindly invite you to our next lecture of the series on the history an culture of the Zerafshan Region, which is jointly organized the Asien-Afrika Institut of the Universität Hamburg and the Imam Bukhari International Scientific Research Center in Samarqand.
Topic: Muhammad Parsa's (d. 1420) Library: History and Overview of the Collection
Lecturer: Akram Khabibullaev, professor at the Indiana University in Bloomington, USA
Date: June 21st, 2022, 2:00 pm (CET) [NOTE THE TIME CHANGE]
Bio of the Speaker:
Akram Khabibullaev graduated from Tashkent State University in 1984 with a degree in Oriental Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Philology and Source Studies from the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. His research interests include Islamic studies, library science, and information science. He also holds a master’s degree in library and information science from Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA). He has conducted research on cataloging at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies (UK), the University of Pennsylvania (USA), the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies (USA), and the University of Chicago (USA). Akram Habibullaev is currently an Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also works as a bibliographer for the Middle East, Central Eurasia, and Islamic Studies at Indiana University (USA). He is a member of organizations such as the Central Eurasian Research Society, the Association of Middle Eastern Studies Librarians, the American Librarians Association, and the Islamic Manuscripts Association.
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