Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah

Project Information

APCG

Grant agreement ID: 851411

DOI

10.3030/851411

Project closed

EC signature date 3 December 2019

Start date 1 July 2020

End date 30 June 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 456 246,00

EU contribution

€ 1 456 246,00

Coordinated by

THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN
Ireland

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Publications

Other (4)

Kalila wa-Dimna: T-S Ar.6.321 part of the Arabic book Kalila wa Dimna, story nine – ʾIlāḏ, Balāḏ and Iirāḵt

Author(s): Mohamed A. H. Ahmed
Published in: Taylor-Schechter Fragment of the Month, Issue February 2021, 2021
Publisher: Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit
DOI: 10.17863/cam.82608

Bilingualism in Genizah Arabic poetry: T-S NS 108.60

Author(s): Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Benjamin Outhwaite
Published in: Taylor-Schechter Fragment of the Month, Issue May 2021, 2021
Publisher: Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit
DOI: 10.17863/cam.77449

“At Least Like a Dog Treat me”, Says Not the Sufi: The Use of Animals in Poetry as Didactic Tools, T-S Ar.40.204

Author(s): Muhammad Imran Khan
Published in: Taylor-Schechter Fragment of the Month, Issue November 2022, 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Library

Special Issue, Vol. 15 No. 3: Entangled Histories and Cultures: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Premodern Mediterranean through Literary and Folk Sources

Author(s): Ahmed Mohamed Sheir, Muhammad Imran Khan
Published in: Entangled Religions, Issue 15, 2022
Publisher: Ruhr-University Bochum

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Shared Memory and History: The Abrahamic Legacy in Medieval Judaeo-Arabic Poetry from the Cairo Genizah

Author(s): Ahmed Mohamed Sheir
Published in: Religions, Issue 15, 2025, Page(s) 1431, ISSN 2077-1444
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rel15121431

The North Meets the South in the Mediterranean

Author(s): Albrecht Classen
Published in: Entangled Religions, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2363-6696
Publisher: Universitatsbibliothek der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
DOI: 10.46586/er.15.2025.12176

A Mamluk Sultan in Genoa

Author(s): Albrecht Fuess
Published in: Entangled Religions, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2363-6696
Publisher: Universitatsbibliothek der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
DOI: 10.46586/er.15.2024.11892

Cultural Insights from Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah

Author(s): Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Sally Abed
Published in: Review of Middle East Studies, Issue December 2026, 2026, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 2329-3225
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/rms.2026.10060

Bilingualism and Script-Switching in a Poet’s Notebook from the Genizah

Author(s): Mohamed A.H. Ahmed, Benjamin Outhwaite
Published in: Zutot, Issue 23, 2026, Page(s) 6-19, ISSN 1875-0214
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1163/18750214-bja10056

Warrior, Poet and Artist

Author(s): Esra Egüz
Published in: Entangled Religions, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2363-6696
Publisher: Universitatsbibliothek der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
DOI: 10.46586/er.15.2024.11880

أنبياء بني إسرائيل بين الذاكرة الشعبيّة والتاريخ: قراءة في الشعر العربيّ في أوراق الجنيزا القاهريّة بجامعة كامبريدج

Author(s): أحمد شعير
Published in: المركز: مجلة الدراسات العربية, Issue 4, 2025, Page(s) 179-212, ISSN 2772-8242
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1163/27728250-12340064

Voices, Identities, and the Other: Texts from the Cairo Genizah, Abbasid Baghdad, and Medieval Iberia (ipecial Issue)

Author(s): Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Sally Abed
Published in: Review of Middle East Studies, Issue December 2026, 2026, ISSN 2329-3225
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/rms.2026.10081

Cabbage and Cross: Anti-Christian Sentiment in the Cairo Genizah

Author(s): Benjamin Outhwaite
Published in: Review of Middle East Studies, Issue December 2026, 2026, ISSN 2329-3225
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/rms.2026.10080

History Carved on a Tombstone

Author(s): Tarek M. Muhammad, Noha A. Salem
Published in: Entangled Religions, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2363-6696
Publisher: Universitatsbibliothek der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
DOI: 10.46586/er.15.2025.12357

Crafting a New “Middle Ages.” Identity, Discourse, and Historiographical Connections through Castilian Representations of Muslims in Iberia (13th-16th Centuries)

Author(s): Iago Brais Ferrás García
Published in: Review of Middle East Studies, Issue December 2026, 2026, ISSN 2329-3225
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/rms.2025.10023

‘Women in Love’ in the Arabic Poetry of the Cairo Genizah

Author(s): Sally Abed
Published in: Review of Middle East Studies, Issue December 2026, 2026, ISSN 2329-3225
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/rms.2026.10062

"""The Medieval Notion of Jews and Muslims in Spain: From Translated Texts in the 14th-Century Crown of Aragon to the 19th-Century Historical Novel"""

Author(s): Azucena Donkervoort
Published in: Review of Middle East Studies, Issue December 2026, 2026, ISSN 2329-3225
Publisher: Cambridge Univeristy Press
DOI: 10.1017/rms.2025.10028

"""The Unity of Knowledge: Transdisciplinarity in Al-Jahiz's Kitāb Al-Hayawān (The Animal Book)"""

Author(s): Asmaa Youssef
Published in: Review of Middle East Studies, Issue December 2026, 2026, ISSN 2329-3225
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/rms.2026.10065

Zoraida and Carcayona

Author(s): Lisette Balabarca-Fataccioli
Published in: Entangled Religions, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2363-6696
Publisher: Universitatsbibliothek der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
DOI: 10.46586/er.15.2024.11887

Fire and the Cross

Author(s): Ahmed. M. Sheir, Benjamin Outhwaite
Published in: Entangled Religions, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2363-6696
Publisher: Ruhr-University Bochum
DOI: 10.46586/er.15.2024.11889

Book chapters (1)

Six Leaves of the Arabic Kalila wa-Dimna in Hebrew Characters

Author(s): Mohamed Ahmed
Published in: From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, 2025, Page(s) 187-190
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004712331_013