The first conference of the TYPARABIC project team was hosted by the Library
of the Holy Synod in Bucharest on September 5 and 6, 2022. Over the two days,
ten core team members and six guests presented the papers published in this
volume, the second in the series Early Arabic Printing in the East (EAPE) dedicated
by De Gruyter to the TYPARABIC…[Read more]

This is a general presentation of the TYPARABIC project funded by the ERC through the first Advanced Grant won by Romania in SH6 for 2021-2026

This is a discussion of the first printed Arabic Akathist to the Mother of God that has recently turned out in a private collection. This is a book printed ca. 1745-1750 by the care of the Patriarch Sylvester of Antioch in the press of a Greek Orthodox monastic community, either in Bucharest, Romania, or in Beirut Lebanon.

This article presents the new findings connected to several Arabic books that have
been discovered by TYPARABIC team members in libraries around the world, where
they were cataloged in insufficient or inaccurate detail, which has led to their being
kept hidden from scrutiny until now. Projects of re-editing and translating these Arabic
books,…[Read more]

The Institute for South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy has
hosted, since July 1, 2021, a project that I am heading as Principal Investigator,
having received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council
(ERC AdG 2019 – Contract no. 883219 – Horizon 2020). Called TYPARABIC.
Early Arabic Printing for the Arab Chr…[Read more]