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  • Gift list of book titles, donated to the HS/SS library of the IAS
    List of books donated from my personal library to the HS/SS library of the Institute for Advanced Study (since 2018)
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  • Lecture series: "Reconstructing Libraries of the Medieval and Early Modern Period (the Islamic World)"
    (unpublished dataset (bibliographical references), 2018)
    Schmidtke, Sabine
      237  860
  • "Medieval Imāmī Thought Collection"--Inventory
    (2022)
    Schmidtke, Sabine
    The "Medieval Imāmī Thought Collection" comprises surrogates of the manuscript material that has been consulted during the preparation of Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke, Al-Šarīf al-Murtaḍā's Oeuvre and Thought in Context: An Archaeological Inquiry into Texts and their Transmission, 2 vols, Cordoba: UCOpress, 2022 (see also https://albert.ias.edu/handle/20.500.12111/6508). The Historical Studies–Social Science Library of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, kindly agreed to make available those surrogates under the file name "Medieval Imāmī Thought Collection." These may be consulted by scholars by appointment in the Library (https://www.ias.edu/library/hs).
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  • Mu'tazilite Manuscripts Project (2005-2007 Research Grant, Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation) and ERC Advanced Grant "Rediscovering Theological Rationalism in the Medieval World of Islam" (2008-2013)
    (2006)
    Schmidtke, Sabine
    ;
    Sklare, David
    In 2003, Sabine Schmidtke (Princeton, then Berlin) and David Sklare (Jerusalem) founded the “Mu’tazilite Manuscripts Project Group” with the purpose of collecting all hitherto unpublished Mu‘tazilite manuscripts (Muslim and Jewish), of identifying these materials and of preparing critical editions, in order to set the scientific research of the Mu‘tazilite movement on a broader basis. They have since been the coordinators of the group and were able to receive substantial research grants from the Thyssen Foundation (2003-06), the Henkel Foundation (2005) and Yad Hanadiv (2006). The “Mu’tazilite Manuscripts Project Group” consisted of about fifteen active members from the West, the Islamic world and Israel who come from both Islamic Studies and Jewish Studies. Together with Wilferd Madelung (Oxford), Schmidtke also applied successfully for and coordinated a research group of eight scholars (plus five guests), “Mu’tazilism in Islam and Judaism”, at the IAS (nowadays IIAS), Jerusalem (2005-06). The work of the Mu'tazila Manuscripts Project Group were lateron (2009-2013) continued as part of the research project "Dediscovering Theological Rationalism in the Medieval World of Islam", funded by an ERC Advanced Grant granted to Schmidtke.
      1263  2443
  • The Published Correspondences of Ignaz Goldziher
    (2020)
    Dévényi, Kinga
    ;
    Schmidtke, Sabine
    Dévénvi, Kinga, and Sabine Schmidtke, "The Published Correspondences of Ignaz Goldziher" [unpublished dataset], https://doi.org/10.48706/XSDD-CQ10
      672  482
  • Recovering “Missing Links” in the Intellectual History of the Islamicate World: The Abraham Firkóvič Collections in Saint Petersburg
    (2014)
    Schmidtke, Sabine
    ;
    Sklare, David
    ;
    Stroumsa, Sarah
    ;
    Shaked, Shaul
    A major desideratum in contemporary Genizah scholarship relates to the still largely untapped holdings of the Abraham Firkovitch collection of the National Library of Russia (NLR) in St. Petersburg (with a total number of around 15,000 items) which was inaccessible to scholars from outside the Soviet Union for most of the twentieth century (with few exceptions). The large majority of Firkovitch manuscripts was taken from the Geniza of the Karaite synagogue, Dar ibn Sumayh, in Cairo, which originated with the synagogue’s former library. The Firkovitch collection consist of fragments of literary works that cover virtually all disciplines of medieval learning, such as Bible exegesis, theology, philosophy and logic, law and legal theory, medicine, astronomy and other sciences, belles lettres, and so forth. Many of the Firkovitch manuscripts are quite large, containing hundreds of folios, and a significant percentage of the material can be dated to the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The Arabic manuscripts, the large majority of which are written in Hebrew characters, are extremely important. Most of the works they contain are completely or virtually unknown to scholarship. A considerable number are unique manuscripts, among them numerous works by Muslim authors. Even though many of the fragments are rather large in size, almost all of them are in poor condition, as is typical for Geniza material. They are fragmentary and jumbled, usually without a title page or colophon that would identify the text they contain. Since the 1990s, microfilms of most sections of the collection have been available at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts (IMHM) at the National Library of Israel (NLI) in Jerusalem. These include the Arabic material written in Hebrew characters that is part of the Second Firkovitch Collection, which consists of manuscripts belonging to the so-called First Series (RNL Yevr.-Arab. I) and to the Second, or New, Series (RNL Yevr.-Arab. II or NS). Excluded from microfilming was the section of the collection that consists of Arabic writings written in Arabic characters ("Arabski-Arabski"), which is equally rich in material pertinent to the "rational sciences". In 2015, the NLR and NLI signed an agreement that allows the NLI to digitize those microfilms and provide online open access to the images. Over the past ten years, there have been several initiatives to seek funding to produce a full catalog of the Firkovitch collection, none of which have been successful, the principal reason being the uncertainty about the full accessibility of the manuscript materials during the lifetime of the respective proposed projects. Among the initiatives, mention should be made of an earlier grant application by David Sklare and Sabine Schmidtke (2011), and another application to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities by Sarah Stroumsa and Sabine Schmidtke (with Shaul Shaked for the Persian materials in the Firkovitch collection) which was first submitted in 2012, followed by a full version submitted in 2014. In the meantime, enormous progress in uploading manuscripts from the Firkovitch Collection (YA II) unto the National Library of Israel’s digital repository has been made [http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLIS/he/ManuScript/] and the accessibility of the bulk of the material is thus no longer an issue. It is to be hoped that others will take up the past initiatives to advance this important field of inquiry. The BBAW application in its final version (April 2014) is included in this bundle for interested scholars to use.
      600  346
  • Rudolf Strothmann Archive
    Strothmann, Rudolf
    ;
    Schmidtke, Sabine
    The purpose of the "Rudolf Strothmann Archive" which comprises digital surrogates of his published work is to bring Rudolf Strothmann's (1877-1960) pioneering role in the scholarly exploration of Shiʿi Islam into focus and to render his writings, much of which are still relevant, more easily accessible. From 1909 onwards, Strothmann worked intensively on the Glaser manuscript collection held by the State Library Berlin, which from 1910 onwards resulted in a number of pathbreaking publications on the Zaydiyya. Thereafter, he increasingly delved into Twelver Shiʿism and his major publications in this area appeared during the third decade of the twentieth century. During the later decades of his life, Strothmann primarily focussed on various strands of Ismaʿilism. Rudolph Strothmann was the teacher of Wilferd Madelung, another major scholar of Shiʿi studies who in turn trained the next generation of scholars in this field. Among his students, mention should be made of Martin J. McDermott, Hossein Modarressi, Sabine Schmidtke, and Bernard Haykel, all of whom continued in one way or another to work on different aspects of Shiʿi Islam. A bibliography of his writings has been published as "Rudolf Strothmann (1877-1960): Publications. Compiled by Sabine Schmidtke," Shii Studies Review 4 (2019).
      1515  2787
  • Strothmann Family Archive: An Inventory
    (2021)
    Schmidtke, Sabine
    ;
    Strothmann, Gaby
    The Strothmann Family Archive was discovered in 2011 by Gaby Strothmann in the attic of Inselstraße 29, Hamburg, where Rudolf and Marga Strothmann had lived since 1927. The material was kept in boxes, and a first chronological arrangment was made by Gaby Strothmann. In 2021 Sabine Schmidtke rearranged the material, and the present inventory reflects this most recent arrangment.
      704  680
  • Systematische Religionsphilosophie
    (2018)
    Schreiner, Martin
    ;
    Schmidtke, Sabine
    [based on Ms Var 347-2 ו 2 ז and Ms Var 347-3 א-ה (Martin Schreiner Archives, National Library of Israel)] Work on this edition began in August 2012. Version 1.0 was first published on June 12, 2018,
      321  173
  • Wilferd Madelung Papers: An Inventory
    (2023)
    Sabine Schmidtke
    The Wilferd Madelung Papers were gathered on 24-25 February 2023 from Wilferd Madelung's former Oxford apartment (21 Belsyre Court, Observatory Street) and on 14 March 2023 from the Madelung family residence in River Forest, Illinois (547 Keystone Avenue). Over the course of 2023, the material was brought together and sorted, and the present, still incomplete, inventory reflects this arrangment. The remaining materials will be added over the coming months.
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