Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
The book The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies provides an excellent introduction into DH for students and scholars. … Continue reading Review of The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies
Many people in universities have a Mac. Yet, the world still for the most part runs on Windows. This can … Continue reading Running Windows software on Mac
A small article on why manuscripts kept being popular in the Islamic world until very late. It appeared last year … Continue reading Mediation of Islamic Knowledge: Face to Face Conversations in Manuscripts
Poetry is among the best kind of texts to be manipulated with a programming language. Most of that work lies … Continue reading Tackling Poetry with Python
After having defined the problem, and having seen a solution, let us now familiarize ourselves with a bad example. Much … Continue reading Digital Printing of Arabic: Mushaf Qatar
I use Dropbox and Google Drive to keep a synced backup of a handful of important files. I have noticed … Continue reading Get Out of the Cloud
In this series, we will consider how Arabic is and could be represented in a digital world. Our first, and … Continue reading Digital Printing of Arabic: Mushaf Muscat
Interested in learning more about Digital Humanities? Or technology in general? How do you keep up with the latest? Here … Continue reading Keeping up with Digital Humanities
Representing Arabic script on a computer has been problematic from the very beginning. In this series, we shall explore some … Continue reading Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem
I regret to inform you that when you procure digital photos of Turkish manuscripts, at least those who fall under … Continue reading Suleymaniye Manuscripts now come with a Watermark
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