Between February 7 and March 7, 2020, Zsuzsanna Csorba and Mónika Schönléber spent a month conducting their research in Cairo at the Institut dominicain d’études orientales (IDEO).

Zsuzsanna Csorba studied manuscripts of a 15th-century Arabic medical treatise. One of the copies is kept in the Egyptian National Library and Archives, while the Institute of Arabic Manuscripts holds microfilms of further copies of the work.

Mónika Schönléber worked on the analysis of the poetic corpus in Ibn Aˁṯam al-Kūfī’s ridda-narrative for her PhD thesis with the help of the rich resources provided by the Library of the IDEO.

Photos, from left to right: Our researcher at the National Library of Egypt; Our researcher in front of the Institute of Arabic Manuscripts; Our researchers in front of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina