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Category: Islamic Studies

Databases and Repositories for the Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in East Asia: A Preliminary List (Part 2)
Islamic Studies, Japanese Studies, Online Resources, Sinology

Databases and Repositories for the Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in East Asia: A Preliminary List (Part 2)

In the first part of this post, I provided readers with a list of resources for discovering texts and authors … Continue reading Databases and Repositories for the Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in East Asia: A Preliminary List (Part 2)

Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models
Coding, Digitization, Islamic Studies, OCR, Workflow

Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models

This is a contribution by Christine Roughan of NYU. Connect with her on Twitter @cmroughan Over the summer of 2019, inspired by the promising results in articles like Romanov et al. 2017, I set out to use the … Continue reading Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models

GSM: A Lesson for Beginners, by a Beginner
DH in General, Digital Cartography, Islamic Studies, Visualization

GSM: A Lesson for Beginners, by a Beginner

Composing a text for a website such as this requires a balancing act between the website’s likely readership. Some readers … Continue reading GSM: A Lesson for Beginners, by a Beginner

Databases and Repositories for the Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in East Asia: A Preliminary List (Part 1)
Islamic Studies, Japanese Studies, Online Resources, Sinology

Databases and Repositories for the Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in East Asia: A Preliminary List (Part 1)

Those familiar with my work may be aware of my research on Christian-Muslim Relations (CMR) in China and Japan which … Continue reading Databases and Repositories for the Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in East Asia: A Preliminary List (Part 1)

Google Translate with One Click (Mac)
Digitization, Islamic Studies, Software, Workflow

Google Translate with One Click (Mac)

Yes we all know; Google translator is best described as “quick and dirty”. Nonetheless, we all use it because it … Continue reading Google Translate with One Click (Mac)

Never Trust Al-Shamila Search Results☝️
Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies, Online Resources, Software

Never Trust Al-Shamila Search Results☝️

In this post our Arabo-Islamic Studies editor Maxim digs deeper into searching full-text Arabic corpora, comparing Shamela with Elkirtasse. He shows us … Continue reading Never Trust Al-Shamila Search Results☝️

Why Shamila? Arabic Libraries on your Computer
Islamic Studies, Online Resources, Software, Workflow

Why Shamila? Arabic Libraries on your Computer

The most famous Arabic digital library (both online and on computer) is al-Shamila. It contains roughly 7260 Arabic books (when this … Continue reading Why Shamila? Arabic Libraries on your Computer

DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap
Coding, DH in General, Islamic Studies, Online Resources, Textual Analysis

DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap

  At Utrecht University, the project ‘Bridging the Gap: Digital Humanities and the Arabic-Islamic corpus’, seeks to “harness state-of-the art … Continue reading DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap

Digital Printing of Arabic: The Problem Revisited
Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies

Digital Printing of Arabic: The Problem Revisited

In this post I will respond to some points raised by Titus Nemeth. I already discussed his rhetoric so I … Continue reading Digital Printing of Arabic: The Problem Revisited

Making Sense of the Cacophony of Voices from the Post-Classical Period of Islam
Islamic Studies, Theory

Making Sense of the Cacophony of Voices from the Post-Classical Period of Islam

This small article explains how close reading is not useful in research on post-classical Islamic intellectual history. Instead, close reading … Continue reading Making Sense of the Cacophony of Voices from the Post-Classical Period of Islam

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