What do we know about the context of the Qur’an, the Arabian Peninsula, on the eve of the emergence of Islam? Islamic tradition tends to view the pre-Islamic period of Arabian history as a „time of ignorance“(‘asr al-jâhilîya), a label that has severely handicapped research on the history of Arabia before Islam. The conference assembles specialists from the fields of philology, archaeology, and epigraphy who to read the Qur'an against its historical and cultural background.

New initiative launched by Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre in collaboration with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: An exhibition dedicated to the rich cultural heritage of narrative traditions from ancient Egypt, the Arab world and Germany will be held as part of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair programme for 2021, where Germany will be the Guest of Honour.

outstanding importance. The discipline of epigraphy has the task of recording and explaining the content of this very extensive material. The Corpus is an exhaustive collection of the inscriptions of a given [...] inscriptions. The IG Archive documents and preserves the epigraphic records, including a unique collection of over 70,000 squeezes made in the course of two centuries. The Inscriptiones Graecae are the Academy’s [...] oldest project, being the successor of the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum (CIG), founded in 1815. In the project’s publication series, the Greek inscriptions of Europe are edited on the following plan: IG

together with the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of the European Enlightenment (IZEA) at the University of Halle and the University and State Library Darmstadt, is still ongoing. The aim of the project [...] for ‘Jubiläum*’ in correspSearch. The text snippets indicate whether the hits are in the abstract, the letter text or the editor's commentary. Second, in addition to the metadata, correspSearch can now also [...] aggregate the full texts of the edited letters and make them available for searches (e.g. for a search for the german word ‘Jubiläum*’ (“anniversary”)). Only the URL to the TEI-XML full text of the respective

exclusively to the philological principles of fidelity to the original and completeness. Many manuscripts from the literary nachlass of Marx and Engels are published here for the first time. The publication [...] published. In the future, a cumulative digital version of the text, apparatus and indices of all the manuscripts of Das Kapital – now published here entirety – and of the editions published in the lifetimes [...] The project Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) is the historico-critical edition of the complete published works, manuscripts and correspondence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The edition is committed

science and society. The Academy supervises the long-term cultural-scientific research projects which are funded by the Federal government and the States, such as the dictionary projects, editions, documentations [...] l Academy Projects, of which 23 exist today, make the Academy the largest non-university research institution with a profile in the humanities in the region. In interdisciplinary work and research groups [...] contexts. Consequently, the Academy is aiming at increasing its impact on research and on the public at large. Research Centre for the Middle Ages Research Centre for Primary Sources of the Ancient World Research

publication to archiving the data. Intensive collaboration with the scholars is at the focus of this process. The digital research process as TELOTA – IT/DH participates in the projects of the BBAW. Digital Resources [...] central task of TELOTA – IT/DH is to support the projects of the Academy in their digital research. The TELOTA team accompanies the projects in all phases of the digital research process: from conception [...] support the Humanities projects of the BBAW in creating digital text resources. More information Project of the Month (2007–2009) In order to evaluate the potential of Digital Humanities for the Academy's

research projects This joint programme of the three Berlin universities, the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and [...] how important the humanities and social sciences are for the research location Berlin-Brandenburg and to raise their profile. Under the general heading of ‘Cultural and Social Change’, the aim is to research [...] s in the Berlin-Brandenburg region, from the rest of Germany and around the world. Scholars interested in participating may apply by submitting a sketch of their project in response to the annual Call

approaches. The ‘Alexandrian School’ was committed to allegorical exegesis, to the point of disregarding the literal sense altogether, while the ‘Antiochene School’ stressed the literal meaning of the text and [...] Academy Project is part of the Research Centre for Primary Sources of the Ancient World at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The Academy research project “The Late Antique Biblical [...] Alexandria and Antioch were two of the ancient world’s great cities, but they were also centres of scholarship in which, from the fourth century AD, the same canonical text – the Bible – was interpreted with

Electronic Life Of The Academy supports on the one hand the Humanities projects in the BBAW and is active in research and software development in the field of Digital Humanities. TELOTA ZDL The Centre for Digital [...] Data Management The BBAW actively supports the Open Science movement to assure sustainability of digital research data. The BBAW is a partner in the NFDI consortium Text+. Open Science IT The IT team maintains [...] ucture. News The BBAW is constantly involved in the field of Digital Humanities through events, publications, lectures and collaborations at the national and international levels. to the news-page (in