Recovering collective memory: Tracing the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts of Gümüşhanevî foundation libraries across dispersal and collection

Simin Karimi with a 1989 Ph.D. in theoretical linguistics from the University of Washington in Seattle, Simin Karimi is currently a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She served as the department head in 2011-2016 and the interim department head in 2007. In addition, she has been the Chair of […]

Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam received his PhD in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1982. He is a professor of linguistics in Allameh Tabataba'i University (Tehran) and is also a permanent member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. He is the author of many of articles and the following books: Theoretical Linguistics: […]

Geoffrey Haig is professor of linguistics in the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Bamberg. His research is empirically oriented, with a focus on corpus-based approaches to language typology, and language contact in the Western Asian Transition Zone; for both fields he has co-developed online digital resources (see https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg. de/ and https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/resources/wowa/. He has also […]

Professor Erik Anonby and Professor Jaffer Sheyholislami Bio: Erik Anonby is Professor in Linguistics and French at Carleton University. His research focuses on documentation and mapping of Iran's languages, with publications including Phonology of Southern Luri (2003), Adaptive Multilinguals: Language on Larak Island (2011), Bakhtiari Studies: Phonology, Text, Lexicon (2014), and Bakhtiari Studies II: Orthography […]