DIRECTOR AND SPEAKERS
Nuria de Castilla is the Director of the Arabic Codicology Course. She is Professor of Codicology and History of the Manuscript Book in the Islamicate World at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL (Paris). She has collaborated in several international research projects about Arabic manuscripts and the perception of the Islam in Europe; and she is currently head of the international reseach project Corana: Production and transmission of the Qur’an in the Western Islamic World (12-17th centuries), and the scientific coordinator of the ERC project SICLE 670628.
She has largely published. Among other works: Una biblioteca morisca entre dos tapas (2010), the Catalogue of aljamiado and Qur’anic manuscripts of the Library of the CSIC in Madrid (2011), and has been the editor of Manuscritos y documentos árabes en el occidente musulmán (2010) and Qur'anic Manuscripts in the Western Islamic World, special issue of the Journal of Qur'anic Studies (2017). She has just published, with François Déroche and Lbachir Tahali, a book in two volumes, result of the ERC project SICLE: Les livres du sultan. Matériaux pour une histoire du livre et de la vie intellectuelle du Maroc saadien (2022).
François Déroche is a leading specialist in the History of the Qur'an and its written transmission. He has been a member of staff at the Bibliothèque nationale de France , then at the French Institute in Istanbul before joining the École Pratique des Hautes Études where he taught ‘History and codicology of the Arabic handwritten book’. Currently he is a professor at the Collège de France, Paris, where he is chair of 'Histoire du Coran. Texte et transmission'. He has published on codicology (with other contributors, Islamic codicology. An introduction to the study of manuscripts in Arabic script, 2006) and early Qur’anic manuscripts (La transmission écrite du Coran dans les débuts de l’islam. Le codex Parisino-petropolitanus, 2009; Qur’ans of the Umayyads, 2014; Le Coran, une histoire plurielle, 2019). He has been the IP of the ERC project SICLE 670628 (Saadian Intellectual and Cultural Life).
José Luis del Valle is the director of Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial since 1994. Among his publications, the Catálogo de incunables de la Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial (2013) ; Catálogo de impresos de los siglos XVI al XVIII de la Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo (2012-2013). He is part of the Advisory Board of the ERC project SICLE 670628.
Jaime Sepulcre is assistant librarian at the Real Biblioteca in El Escorial since 2019. Formed in Theology, Patristics, and Ancient Philosophy in Madrid, Rome, and Paris, his current research focuses on the history of the El Escorial library, in particular its Arabic manuscripts fund.
Nuria de Castilla is the Director of the Arabic Codicology Course. She is Professor of Codicology and History of the Manuscript Book in the Islamicate World at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL (Paris). She has collaborated in several international research projects about Arabic manuscripts and the perception of the Islam in Europe; and she is currently head of the international reseach project Corana: Production and transmission of the Qur’an in the Western Islamic World (12-17th centuries), and the scientific coordinator of the ERC project SICLE 670628.
She has largely published. Among other works: Una biblioteca morisca entre dos tapas (2010), the Catalogue of aljamiado and Qur’anic manuscripts of the Library of the CSIC in Madrid (2011), and has been the editor of Manuscritos y documentos árabes en el occidente musulmán (2010) and Qur'anic Manuscripts in the Western Islamic World, special issue of the Journal of Qur'anic Studies (2017). She has just published, with François Déroche and Lbachir Tahali, a book in two volumes, result of the ERC project SICLE: Les livres du sultan. Matériaux pour une histoire du livre et de la vie intellectuelle du Maroc saadien (2022).
François Déroche is a leading specialist in the History of the Qur'an and its written transmission. He has been a member of staff at the Bibliothèque nationale de France , then at the French Institute in Istanbul before joining the École Pratique des Hautes Études where he taught ‘History and codicology of the Arabic handwritten book’. Currently he is a professor at the Collège de France, Paris, where he is chair of 'Histoire du Coran. Texte et transmission'. He has published on codicology (with other contributors, Islamic codicology. An introduction to the study of manuscripts in Arabic script, 2006) and early Qur’anic manuscripts (La transmission écrite du Coran dans les débuts de l’islam. Le codex Parisino-petropolitanus, 2009; Qur’ans of the Umayyads, 2014; Le Coran, une histoire plurielle, 2019). He has been the IP of the ERC project SICLE 670628 (Saadian Intellectual and Cultural Life).
José Luis del Valle is the director of Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial since 1994. Among his publications, the Catálogo de incunables de la Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial (2013) ; Catálogo de impresos de los siglos XVI al XVIII de la Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo (2012-2013). He is part of the Advisory Board of the ERC project SICLE 670628.
Jaime Sepulcre is assistant librarian at the Real Biblioteca in El Escorial since 2019. Formed in Theology, Patristics, and Ancient Philosophy in Madrid, Rome, and Paris, his current research focuses on the history of the El Escorial library, in particular its Arabic manuscripts fund.