"Philological Encounters" - Introduction

by Islam Dayeh, the journal's executive editor (Freie Universität Berlin / Zukunftsphilologie) Philological Encounters is both the title of this journal and a scholarly perspective. If we agree that philology, as a critical method, is inseparable from any textual tradition, then wherever texts exist, a method of making sense of them exists as well. What forms did these methods take across the globe before and during the encounter with European philology? How do salient aspects of the philolog..