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Toward Abstract Models for Islamic History
NB: the paper has been presented @ Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI (October 24-25, 2013); the video recording of the presentation is...
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Computational Reading of Arabic Biographical Collections
My dissertation—“Computational Analysis of Arabic Biographical Collections with Special Reference to Preaching in the Sunnī World (661-1300 CE)”—is now available online through the digital library @...
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al-Thurayyā Gazetteer: An Islamic Supplement to Pleiades
A Screenshot of al-Thurayyā. Click on the screenshot to open the Gazetteer in full screen.With Teams Pelagios and Pleiades—in alphabetical order: Elton Barker, Tom Elliot, Leif Isaksen, Rainer...
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Islamic Urban Centers (661–1300 CE)
Back to al-Dhahabī’s Ta’rīkh al-islām. The present dynamic cartogram shows how the prominence of major urban centers was changing over time. The focus is again on “descriptive names” (nisba) and the...
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al-Thurayyā Gazetteer, Ver. 02
A Screenshot of al-Thurayyā. Click on the screenshot to open the Gazetteer in full screen.This is our first usable demo of al-Thurayyā Gazetteer. Currently it includes over 2,000 toponyms and almost as...
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Arabic betaCodeAlthough both Windows and Mac OS now support Arabic, it is still quite difficult to type and edit Arabic texts. It is particularly frustrating to edit and manipulate fully vocalized...
View ArticleQawl 1.0
Qawl 1.0Qawl is a free suite of tools for searchers, teachers and students in the fields of Arabic studies. The program offers the following features:a large library of Arabic texts (more than 1900)a...
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Arabic AlmanacPerhaps the most valuable project out there, the Arabic Almanac is a collections of scanned dictionaries that are searcheable by roots. The Almanac uses the Mawrid Reader, an extendable...
View Articleal-Maktabaŧ al-Waqfiyyaŧ
al-Maktabaŧ al-WaqfiyyaŧThe largest collection of scanned books in Arabic (scanned images comiled into PDFs) with over 7,200 titles (~12,000 volumes), including editions of most major classical Islamic...
View ArticleAccess to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)
Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)AMIR is a blog (with its own ISSN 2160-3049) maintained by a few scholars and librarians who regularly post annotated thematic lists of online resources...
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A DH Exercise: Mapping the Greco-Roman World
A DH Exercise: Mapping the Greco-Roman World“Envy is not a very good thing. Yet envy is precisely what an early Islamicist feels when he reads Roger Bagnall and Bruce Frier’s The Demography of Roman...
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Introducing mARkdown
TEI XML has long become the standard for tagging humanistic texts for research purposes. It is the standard in most digital libraries (including the Perseus Digital Library). Having texts in a TEI XML...
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al-Thurayyā Gazetteer: An Islamic Supplement to Pleiades
A Screenshot of al-Thurayyā. Click on the screenshot to open the Gazetteer in full screen.With Teams Pelagios and Pleiades—in alphabetical order: Elton Barker, Tom Elliot, Leif Isaksen, Rainer...
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Chronological Coverage of an Arabic Corpus
While looking for a way to identify all biographical collections and chronicles (and, by extension, all other texts that offer data for time-series analysis) in a collection of 0ver 10,000 texts, it...
View ArticleResources: Scanned Printed Editions Online
This blogpost overviews existing collections of scanned editions of Arabic texts that can be found online. Each collection is described in the same manner in order to provide ground for...
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Creating Frequency-Based Readers for Classical Arabic
Click on the image to download the Reader.Bringing DH methods into a language classroomLearning classical Arabic is a long process. Most of us took great pleasure in advanced reading classes with our...
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Computational Reading of Arabic Biographical Collections
My dissertation—“Computational Analysis of Arabic Biographical Collections with Special Reference to Preaching in the Sunnī World (661-1300 CE)”—is now available online through the digital library @...
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Arabographic Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
By: Maxim Romanov, Matthew Thomas Miller, Sarah Bowen Savant, and Benjamin Kiessling The OpenITI team—building on the foundational open-source OCR work of the Leipzig University’s (LU) Alexander von...
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The latest version is on GitHub @ github.com/maximromanov/ArabicBetacodeMinor update to the scheme (2015-03-09:10-21)Done to avoid issues with Alpheios translation alignment, which automatically splits...
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