📚 Call for Papers 🕌 The Luminous and the Labyrinthine: Exploring Islamic Libraries of Pre-Modern Times 📍 American University of Beirut | 🗓 May 21–23, 2026 How were books collected, read, copied, and shared in the pre-modern Islamic world? What roles did libraries—personal, institutional, mobile—play in shaping scholarship, canons, and memory? Join us for a landmark conference that explores the intellectual, social, and material worlds of Islamic libraries before modernity. We welcome papers that engage with historical case studies, archival sources, theoretical approaches, and more. 📝 Submit your abstract (250–300 words) CV by October 30, 2025 📧 Email: bo00@aub.edu.lb & ta35@aub.edu.lb 🌍 Papers accepted in Arabic or English 📖 Selected papers will be published in an edited volume by AUB Press as part of the Shaykh Zayed Series. Let’s rethink what a library was—and what it meant—in Islamic civilization. Conference organized by Tarek Abou Hussein and Bilal Orfali For more information: academia.edu/143100052/The_L… ✨ #IslamicLibraries #CallForPapers #ManuscriptStudies #ArabicStudies #LibraryHistory #AUB2026 #ZayedSeries

The June 2018 @iflawlic Newsletter is out! In this issue: Satellite Meetings, Kuala Lumpur’s city experience, new "Career and Professional Development Coaching”, this year's congress bag, featured #IslamicLibraries & #MedicalLibraries, and more! bit.ly/2t95TQJ #wlic2018

Review of Islamic collections and research experience at National Library of Bulgaria at hazine.info/national-library… #IslamicLibraries