Other involved scholars: Jamil Ragep (McGill University, Canada), Sally Ragep (McGill University, Canada), Urs Schoepflin (MPIWG), Dirk Wintergrün (MPIWG)

Cooperation Partners: Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University, Canada; an agreement with the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin to digitize circa 1,000 Islamic manuscripts; American Council on Learned Societies; Canada Foundation for Innovation; and Gouvernement du Québec

Title page of Al-Tabṣira fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb (Insight into the Science of Arithmetic) by Ibn Yaḥyā al‐Maghribī, Ahlwardt 5962, Staatsbibliothek Berlin. Open access via ISMI

Member Institutions of the ISMI Board: Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, Aga Khan University, London, U.K.; Archimedes Project, Harvard University, U.S.A.; Filologia Semítica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain ; Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation, Tehran, Iran; Institute for the History of Arabic Science, Aleppo University, Syria; Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia; Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, U.K.; Warburg Institute, London, U.K.;The Written Heritage Research Center, Tehran, Iran

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