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.
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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