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
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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
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)
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
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
Mapping Digitized Manuscript Collections
Among the first-generation digitization projects in the humanities is disclosing manuscripts. Disclosing those disclosures is a natural follow-up. One way to … Continue reading Mapping Digitized Manuscript Collections
Using Lane’s Lexicon
Over at http://laneslexicon.github.io , we can soon find an application that allows for easy access to Lane’s Lexicon. What I find … Continue reading Using Lane’s Lexicon
Converting Dates
I use two websites to convert dates from/to the Islamic and the Common Era calendars. You need to know about … Continue reading Converting Dates
Aratools Arabic-English Dictionary
One nifty digital dictionary for Arabic-English and English-Arabic is provided by Aratools, at http://www.aratools.com You can use it for free online, … Continue reading Aratools Arabic-English Dictionary
Lane’s Lexicon Online
Lane’s Arabic – English Lexicon, has been unequaled since 1863, despite the fact that it only runs to qāf. Roots that … Continue reading Lane’s Lexicon Online
The Digital Orientalist 