Farouk Ismail

Professor Dr. Farouk Ismail is a Visiting Professor at the University of Hamburg, affiliated with the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Supplements and Manuscript Cultures" (CSMC). His research focuses on cultural heritage preservation, digital manuscript analysis, and written artefact profiling. He contributes to international projects such as DiPiKA – Digital Preservation of Kerala Archives and the Timbuktu Manuscript Training Project.

• Affiliation: University of Hamburg
• Key Research Areas: Digital preservation strategies, manuscript digitization, historical text analysis

Dr. Ismail collaborates on safeguarding endangered cultural documents through interdisciplinary methods, emphasizing computational approaches to cultural heritage conservation. His work bridges traditional manuscript studies with modern digital methodologies.