“In many Muslim communities, the annual celebration of the Prophet Muḥammad’s birthday is one of the most festive occasions of the year...”

“When we think of medieval manuscripts in general, we may imagine male monastic scribes...”

“Church libraries in Ethiopia have often depended upon wealthy and powerful patrons...”

“The manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea come in all shapes and sizes...”

“In the middle of the 19th century, Arabic-speaking immigrants began to appear among the waves of newcomers arriving in the United States...”

“Animals in scripts as symbols of meaning and the art of communicating a message...”

“The refrain “The Lord works in mysterious ways” is rarely truer than it is in the Ethiopic Miracles of Mary...”

“In the New Testament, Acts of the Apostles (17:34), Luke describes the ‘marketplace of ideas’ in Athens...”

“Interwoven tapestry of the natural and spiritual worlds as observed through the Armenian liturgical calendar...”

“In the days before social media, how did people share a noteworthy weather phenomena...”

“An answer to the question of what it means to be human...”

“Dr. Arthur Voobus was many things—a scholar, pastor, teacher, and refugee in exile...”

“The organ is not the first musical instrument that comes to mind when...”

“The Arabic manuscript tradition is rich in medical works discussing remedies and...”

“The book of vows contained one manuscript...”

“Ephrem is perhaps the most widely known of all Syriac authors...”

“Stories about saints, much like their relics, rarely remain tied to...”

“Khalīl ibn Jirjis Janāwī was a scribe, a collector of manuscripts, and an artist who was...”

“If you want to establish a new church, you’re likely going to need some books...”

“The act of hand-copying a manuscript requires specialized skills that...”

“Printing reached Ethiopia rather late. In Europe, texts were occasionally printed in Ethiopic characters from...”

“A book you would love to read is lost, altered, destroyed, buried, hidden, left unpublished, unwritten, banned.”

“Angels occupy an important place in monotheistic religions. They are mainly presented as celestial beings...”

“The Syriac Book of Medicines is a fascinating compendium of medical lore from the...”

“Among the well-known biblical narratives is that of the twins Jacob and Esau, and...”

“In 1744, the French Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary established a convent in ʻAynṭūrah, Lebanon, known in Arabic as...”

“Who doesn’t love a good glass of wine? White, red, or something in between, authors throughout history...”

“On a shelf in the Syriac Orthodox Church of Saint George in Aleppo is a manuscript copied in Arabic Garshuni...”

“Who hasn’t heard a fairy tale about a princess whose beauty moves the richest and...”

“Biblical narratives often leave the audience wanting to know a bit more.”

“Despite having been contested in Islamic history by powerful groups rejecting them as illegitimate practices, magic and...”

“HMML’s digital collections include entertaining stories from a wide range of linguistic and...”

“Have you ever heard a great joke, but then later when you tried to recount it for someone else, you couldn’t remember it?”

“Towards the end of Getatchew Haile’s first published catalog of Ethiopic manuscripts...”

“In 1945, a pharmacist living in Lebanon—Manaseh Kaprielian—presented a 17th-century Armenian manuscript to...”

“Much has been said about the scholarly achievements of Prof. Getatchew Haile...”

“On this day seventy-five years ago, an early-14th century illuminated gospel book arrived at the...”

“People in past centuries would sometimes use the blank flyleaves and margins of manuscripts to...”

“The Monastery of Saint Macarius is one of the oldest active Coptic monasteries in Egypt.”

“Lebanon is one of the most religiously variegated countries in the Middle East.”