24-05-2010

27-05-2010

Egypt, Alexandria

Posted by: citizensofculture

Category: Conference/Symposium

Field: Cultural heritage

Source http://www.euromedheritage.net

International conference of MANUMED project

In the framework of MANUMED project, which aims to safeguard and valorise the diversity of the written heritage, and its corollary, language as an intangible heritage, the seventh annual conference of the Centre for Manuscripts at Bibliotheca Alexandrina will be held on 25-27 May 2010 in Alexandria. The conference theme for this year will be “Heritage Continuity. Origins and Preliminaries of Arabic/Islamic Heritage”.

The debates will focus on the sources and origins of the Arabic-Muslim civilisation in order to examine the nature and the vitality in heritage continuity from one civilisation to another and from one culture to another. Among the tools to be discussed: comparisons, analysis of sources, examination of translations made in the first centuries of Islam; these will serve as the entry point to the discussions and debates around the themes of the conference, including philosophy and the natural sciences, general knowledge and history, languages, ideas and religious concepts, arts and literature. Participants in the conference include researchers and experts from several European countries and Mediterranean partner countries of the European Union.

“The aim of this conference is to underline mutual influences between the different civilisations and examine the beginnings of what nowadays is known as the “Arabic-Muslim heritage”, a heritage which benefited from the culture of previous civilisations and enriched humanity with its own contributions” says Stéphane Ipert, MANUMED project coordinator.

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