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Considerations
The 28th Intemational Congress of Orientalists in Canberra (1971) accepted, in a unanimously accepted resolution, the need of cataloguing all Arabic manuscripts and the need of stimulating all efforts and programs in this field.
The participants to the icanas, the direct successor to the Congress in Canberra, are asked to evaluate the developments in this respect, which have taken place since 1971.
— Manuscripts in other Middle Eastem languages, both Islamic and non-Islamic, are
equally worth our attention. What has been done with these in the past years?
— After cataloguing come the questions of preservation and availability. It is deemed necessary to create an atmosphere in which intemational cooperation is possible.
— Preservation is possible with the availability of sound techniques only. The
establishment of a micro-archive, which operates outside the sphere of commercial interests, is a complement to preservation policies.
— Availability is of primordial importance. All Middle Eastern Uteratures are still mainly available in the form of manuscripts. The survival of these literatures depends on the use of its manuscript treasures.
— Participants are requested to make an inventory of difficulties encountered and
solutions proposed. They may do so in their capacity of curators, responsible for the use of manuscript collections, or as scholarly readers, who are concemed with the unhampered study of such collections.
— In view of the numerous and manifold difficulties, which will without doubt be
presented by the participants, would it be possible for the icanas as whole, or its participants as private persons, to initiate the necessary activities?
At the end of the session of the panel the text of a new resolution on this subject, to be accepted in the Plenary Session of the icanas, will be proposed.
List of Participants
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Dr. Masao Abe, Dept. of Philosophy, Haverford College, PA 19041, USA
Dr. John Abercrombie, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2741 Belmont Ave., Ardmore, PA, USA Dra. Sn Sukesi ADIWIMARTA, Nat. Centre f. Language Devel., Daksinapati Barat 4, 13220 Jarkarta,
Indonesia
Marzieh AghakhaN-Moheb, Tehran Univ., 4th St Bokarest Ave No. 8, 15146 Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Dr. Nisar Ahmad, L 27, Hyderabad Colony, Benares Hindu Univ., Varanasi-5, India Dr. Munir D. AHMED, Deutsches Orient-Institut, Mittelweg 150, 2000 Hamburg 13, FRG Dr. Reuben Ahroni, 3503 Livmoor Drive, Columbus, Ohio 43227, USA
Dr. Sarojini Ajwani, C 97 Working Girls Hostel, Curzon Rd., 110001 New Delhi, India
Prof. Dr. Roman T. AKHRAMOVICH, Inst, for Asia and Africa, 18 Prospect Marxa K-9, Moskow, USSR PHD. Oleg F. Akimushkin, Inst, of Oriental Studies, 18 Dvorzovaya, 192041 Leningrad, USSR Prof. Dr. Terukazu Akiyama, 3-30-9, Kitazawa, Setagaya-Ku, 155 Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Salin Al-Ali, Irakische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Baghdad, Iraq
Dr. Wadad Al-Qadi, Columbia Univ., Dept. of ME Lang and Cultures, Kent Hal, New York, NY 10027, USA
Prof. Dr. Leonid B. Alayev, Editor-in-Chief, "Peoples of Asia & Africa", Moskow, USSR Susanne Albrecht, Lutterothstr. 93, 2000 Hamburg 20, FRG
Dr. Viviane ALLETON, Ecole Hautes Etudes Scienc. Soc, 54, Bd. Raspail, 75006 Paris, France Shlomo ALON, P.O. Box 10301, 91102 Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Vladimir M. ALPATOV, Inst. ofOriental Studies, 12 Zhdanova, 103777 Moskow, USSR PHD. Roy C. Amore, Univ. of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada Dr. Paul Kent Andersen, Neuköllner Str. 24, 4800 Bielefeld 1, FRG
Dr. Choulean ANG, 9 Impasse Compoint, 93400 Saint-Ouen, France
Prof Dr. Tian-Se ANG, Univ. of Malaya, Dept. of Chinese Studies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Prof Dr. S. M. Razaullah ANSARI, Physics Dept., Muslim Univ., Aligarh 202002, India Prof Dr. Dr. Peter ANTES, Bismarckstr. 2, 3000 Hannover, FRG
Dr. Klaus J. ANTONI, Seminar für Spraehe und Kultur Japans, Univ. Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 6, 2000 Hamburg 13, FRG
Uranie ANTYPA, 10, rue des Salles, 63000 Clermont Ferrand, France Urs App, Alte Post Goldacherstr. 75, 9400 Rorschacherberg, Switzerland Ass. Prof. Masarm Arai, Osaka City Univ., Somiyoshi-Ku, Osaka 588, Japan
Dr. M. Kristin Arat, Inst, für Religionswissenschaft, Schottenring 21, 1010 Wien, Austria Prof Dr. Rachel ARIE, Univ. of Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France
Gensei Asano, c\o Mr. Fujii, 19 Eikando-nishi-mati, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto, Japan Barbara AsCHER
Dr. S. Yussuf Assaf, Goethe Institute, Assistant Culturel, B.P 113-5139, 11, Rue Bliss, Beirut, Libanon
