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  • Sir Richard Burton’s Arabian Nights – by Dr. Amy Matthewson

    Sir Richard Burton’s Arabian Night What makes a good translation of a literary work? Is it faithfulness to the work, despite awkwardness or potential risk of making the reader feel lost in…

    3 November 2023
    Arabian Nights, RAS Collections, Richard Burton, Uncategorised
  • Digitization of Documents from the Sufi Shrines at Dhar in India

    The Society is delighted to announce the completion of its project to digitize documents related to the Sufi Shrines in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, India.   Funded by the Endangered Archive Programme at…

    28 April 2023
    About the Society, Uncategorised
  • Now available on YouTube: Launch of Derek Davis translation of Pushkin’s ‘A Journey to Arzrum during the Campaign of 1829’

        “There was a Poet whose untimely tomb…”                                                                                                 Shelley Alastor   Much has happened since the launch of my translation of Pushkin’s Arzrum [Erzurum] on 25 October. At RAS,…

    3 March 2023
    About the Society, Events, Uncategorised
  • New Digitization and New Discoveries in the Photograph Collection

    The Society’s collection is diverse not only in the places and topics it covers, but also in the formats and media it contains. Once upon a time, the Society even held a…

    17 February 2023
    RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, Uncategorised
  • New Digitization, and a Festschrift for Dr Barbara Brend

    We are delighted to announce that two manuscripts have been added to the Society’s online collections and can now be read in full on our Digital Library. These are a Bustan of…

    10 February 2023
    Collections, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, Uncategorised
  • A Tribute For The Legacy Of James Tod

    We are pleased to introduce this tribute from Dr Shuchi Gupta (CCS University, Meerut), who has generously sponsored the digitization of our manuscript RAS Tod 126, comprising two texts on Indian history…

    2 December 2022
    India, RAS Collections, Recent, Uncategorised
  • The Surya P. Subedi Prize

    The Royal Asiatic Society is delighted to announce the launch of the Surya P. Subedi Prize for the publication of a book or article on Nepal in English in any one calendar…

    28 November 2022
    Recent, Royal Asiatic Society, Uncategorised
  • A Qurʾan manuscript with full Malay translation

    We are pleased to introduce this week’s blog by Dr Annabel Teh Gallop, a member of RAS Council.  The Royal Asiatic Society holds a Qurʾan manuscript (Arabic 4), which is of exceptional…

    25 November 2022
    Book Launches, Collections, RAS Collections, Recent, Uncategorised
  • Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: The Life and Times of Thomas Manning – Out Now!

    This week’s blog post is by RAS Librarian Edward Weech. Many long-time readers of the Society’s blog will remember that, in 2015, the RAS acquired the archive of Thomas Manning (1772-1840). At…

    18 November 2022
    China, Collections, Recent, Uncategorised
  • Happy birthday Michael Loewe!

    Professor Michael Loewe was born a hundred years ago, on 2 November 1922. He has been a Fellow of the Society since 1959, and at various times during the past sixty-three years…

    2 November 2022
    Recent, Uncategorised
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