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Category: Islamic Studies

Online Searchable Dictionaries for Islamic Studies: A Preliminary List
Islamic Studies, Online Resources

Online Searchable Dictionaries for Islamic Studies: A Preliminary List

A short list of dictionaries well-known in Islamic Studies, that are now digitally available online. There are of course a … Continue reading Online Searchable Dictionaries for Islamic Studies: A Preliminary List

Comparing Digital Materials from Berlin, Munich, and Leipzig
Digitization, Islamic Studies, Online Resources

Comparing Digital Materials from Berlin, Munich, and Leipzig

A hands-on comparison of the digital materials from the manuscript collections of the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Munich, and the Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig. … Continue reading Comparing Digital Materials from Berlin, Munich, and Leipzig

Comparing Digital Materials from Paris
Digitization, Islamic Studies, Online Resources

Comparing Digital Materials from Paris

A hands-on comparison of the digital materials from the manuscript collections of Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF, Paris), and a review of … Continue reading Comparing Digital Materials from Paris

Comparing Digital Materials from Tehran
Digitization, Islamic Studies, Online Resources

Comparing Digital Materials from Tehran

A hands-on comparison of the quality of digital materials offered by the manuscript collections from Tehran. Digitization projects have been taken … Continue reading Comparing Digital Materials from Tehran

Comparing Digital Materials from Istanbul
Digitization, Islamic Studies, Online Resources

Comparing Digital Materials from Istanbul

A hands-on comparison of the quality of digital materials offered by the manuscript collections from Istanbul. Digitization projects have been taken … Continue reading Comparing Digital Materials from Istanbul

Book Repositories for Islamic Studies (not a preliminary list)
Between Legal and Illegal, Islamic Studies, Online Resources

Book Repositories for Islamic Studies (not a preliminary list)

I shall not attempt to put together a list of online repositories for books related to Islamic Studies, whether it … Continue reading Book Repositories for Islamic Studies (not a preliminary list)

Full-Text Online Arabic Sources: A Preliminary List
Islamic Studies, Online Resources

Full-Text Online Arabic Sources: A Preliminary List

A truly epic amount of Arabic books, both classical and modern, have been scanned already. But what is the status … Continue reading Full-Text Online Arabic Sources: A Preliminary List

Making a Promotional Video
Islamic Studies, Workflow

Making a Promotional Video

As you may have seen, I made a video that serves as a trailer for my dissertation (see below). In this … Continue reading Making a Promotional Video

Manuscripts: The Hunt for Topkapi
Digitization, Islamic Studies

Manuscripts: The Hunt for Topkapi

Getting images of manuscripts from Topkapi, Istanbul, is notoriously difficult. Here I describe how I succeeded in obtaining them. I … Continue reading Manuscripts: The Hunt for Topkapi

Typing and transliterating Arabic: an online solution
Islamic Languages, Islamic Studies

Typing and transliterating Arabic: an online solution

Fuzzy Arabic Dictionary allows you to simply type the Arabic word you want in an over-simple form in Latin script, and it … Continue reading Typing and transliterating Arabic: an online solution

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