Faculty Lecturer, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University Montreal.

Education

Postgraduate Diploma in Librarianship, Polytechnic of North London (currently University of North London), 1977 MA, Oriental Philology, University of Krakow (Cracow), 1973

Teaching and research interests

Arabic Manuscript Tradition; Arabic book culture; transmission of knowledge; palaeography and codicology

Representative publications

The Arabic manuscript tradition: a glossary of...