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October 30, 2025: David Navarro, an Aliento’s collaborator has just finished an English translation of the Llibre de paraules i dits de savis i filòsofs de Jafudà Bonsenyor (c. 1294) – Book of Words and Proverbs by Sages and Philosophers). The original text may be found on our database: https://base.aliento.eu/accueil

Posted on 12 January 2026 by jcardinali

David Navarro presents the first annotated English translation of Judah Bonsenyor’s Book of Words and Proverbs by Sages and Philosophers (ca. 1294), a seminal work within the medieval Catalan sapiential tradition. This side-by-side annotated medieval Catalan to English translation is … Continue reading →

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On November 16, 2024, at the Institute of Islamic Studies at Berlin’s Freie Universität, David Torollo, a former post-doctoral fellow in the Aliento project, presented a paper entitled « Through and Beyond Arabic: Thirteenth-Century Multilingual Iberia ». The conference was organized by AGYA.

Posted on 10 March 2025 by jcardinali

« Translation and Multilingualism in the Premodern Islamic World(s) » is the theme of the International Conference held on November 15 and 16, 2024 at the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Berlin’s Freie Universität. Information on the Conference is … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Comments Off on On November 16, 2024, at the Institute of Islamic Studies at Berlin’s Freie Universität, David Torollo, a former post-doctoral fellow in the Aliento project, presented a paper entitled « Through and Beyond Arabic: Thirteenth-Century Multilingual Iberia ». The conference was organized by AGYA.

On October 8th, 2024 Javier Liebiusky, an Aliento collaborator, defended his thesis : Sturdy of the Languageand Commentary [« Critical and annotated Edition of M’e’am Lo’ez on Pirqey ‘Avot by Isaac Magriso (Constantinople 1753) »

Posted on 10 March 2025 by jcardinali

Javier Liebiusky tagged the Pirqey ‘Avot on the work-platform of the Aliento project, when he was a doctoral student at Inalco. The tex the has just edited is an 18th-century commentary in Judeo-Spanish on Pirqey ‘Avot.

Posted in News | Comments Off on On October 8th, 2024 Javier Liebiusky, an Aliento collaborator, defended his thesis : Sturdy of the Languageand Commentary [« Critical and annotated Edition of M’e’am Lo’ez on Pirqey ‘Avot by Isaac Magriso (Constantinople 1753) »