June 3, 2025 Dataset Open Access

Hirschler, Konrad; Aljoumani, Said

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      <creatorName>Hirschler, Konrad</creatorName>
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      <affiliation>Universität Hamburg</affiliation>
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      <creatorName>Aljoumani, Said</creatorName>
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      <affiliation>Universität Hamburg</affiliation>
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  <titles>
    <title>Audition Certificates Platform</title>
  </titles>
  <publisher>Universität Hamburg</publisher>
  <publicationYear>2025</publicationYear>
  <subjects>
    <subject>CSMC</subject>
    <subject>UWA</subject>
    <subject>RFE</subject>
    <subject>Archiving Artefacts</subject>
    <subject>E14</subject>
    <subject>Reading the Scholarly Archive in the Pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East</subject>
    <subject>Arabic</subject>
    <subject>manuscript notes</subject>
    <subject>Egypt</subject>
    <subject>Syria</subject>
    <subject>9th century CE</subject>
    <subject>10th century CE</subject>
    <subject>11th century CE</subject>
    <subject>12th century CE</subject>
    <subject>13th century CE</subject>
    <subject>14th century CE</subject>
    <subject>15th century CE</subject>
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  <contributors>
    <contributor contributorType="DataCurator">
      <contributorName>Engelhardt, Vincent</contributorName>
      <affiliation>Leiden University</affiliation>
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    <contributor contributorType="Researcher">
      <contributorName>Efer, Thomas</contributorName>
      <nameIdentifier nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID" schemeURI="http://orcid.org/">0000-0002-8376-3884</nameIdentifier>
      <affiliation>Universität Leipzig</affiliation>
    </contributor>
    <contributor contributorType="DataCollector">
      <contributorName>AlMaiman, AbdulRahman</contributorName>
    </contributor>
    <contributor contributorType="DataCollector">
      <contributorName>عبد الله باوزير</contributorName>
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  <dates>
    <date dateType="Issued">2025-06-03</date>
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    <rights rightsURI="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</rights>
    <rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess">Open Access</rights>
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    <description descriptionType="Abstract">&lt;p&gt;Audition certificates (سماع,&amp;nbsp;طبقة السماع or&amp;nbsp;إجازة) are a salient feature of Arabic manuscript cultures. They are notes written on a book to document the authorised transmission of the book&amp;rsquo;s text from teacher(s) to student(s). In concrete terms, the text was read out aloud (by the teacher or one of the students) and at the end of the reading session one of the members of this reading group added the audition certificate to the book. By virtue of their participation all students now had the right to act as teacher in future reading sessions.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Audition certificates are brimming with data and can include: the name of the teacher(s), student(s) (including highlighting those coming late or leaving early), the reader, the writer of the certificate, the book&amp;rsquo;s owner; in addition to the date of the reading, the place of the reading and many other surprises (such as a writer recording the birth of his son during the reading session in the room next door).&amp;nbsp;These certificates contain a wealth of historical data, particularly on individuals who are not found in many other sources. They are thus a source of outstanding importance for fields such as social history, history of ideas, economic history, urban history, historical topography, and biographical studies. It goes without saying that, especially in a comparative perspective with other world regions, such as Latin Europe, this copious material represents a considerable resource for widening our understanding of Middle Eastern societies.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;ACP is the first major open-access project aimed at unlocking the potential of this data. &amp;nbsp;We have started to go through the holdings of selected libraries (Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Biblioth&amp;egrave;que nationale de France, Syrian National Library, Aşir Efendi Library Istanbul), but we cannot claim to have identified all audition certificates in the manuscript books on their shelves. We will continue to go through further collections to enlarge this first large-scale and fully searchable corpus of audition certificates.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.audition-certificates-platform.org/"&gt;https://www.audition-certificates-platform.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Version 1.0 (launched 26.10.2023) contained 3524 annotated Audition Certificates (369 locations, 42.089 person annotations);&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;version 2.0 (launched 15.03.2024) contained 4035 annotated Audition Certificates (399 locations, 49.275 person annotations);&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;version 3.0 (launched 19.10.2024) contained 4643 annotated Audition Certificates (430 locations, 58.468 person annotations);&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;version 4.0 (launched 06.06.2025) contains&amp;nbsp; 5143&amp;nbsp;annotated Audition Certificates (470&amp;nbsp;locations, 64.791&amp;nbsp;person annotations)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
    <description descriptionType="Other">The research for this project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.</description>
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