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.
Introduction This year’s pieces for Digital Humanities in General have covered various aspects of the practice and theory of Digital … Continue reading Editor’s Digest May 2026: Digital Humanities in General
Introduction In my previous work exploring the first volume of Künhü’l-Ahbar, Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî’s work on history and geography from … Continue reading From Coordinates to Connections: Mapping People and Places in Ottoman Turkish Texts
Introduction The first article of this series explored the general landscape of digital studies on Arabic script in France. The … Continue reading At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (3): Bridging Communities and Building the Future
This paper presents a computational pipeline for working with spatial data in Ottoman Turkish, from extracting place names via named-entity … Continue reading From Text to Map: A Reproducible Geocoding Pipeline for Ottoman Studies
This article examines the flow of Ottoman citizens, including Armenians, Jews, Christians, and Muslims, to the United States during the … Continue reading Flourish: Visualizing Ottoman Migration to the United States
Introduction A fundamental question in the history of science from antiquity to the premodern era is how people organized knowledge, … Continue reading M-Classi: A Digital Tool for the Classification of Sciences in Islam and Beyond
It is fascinating to see how Ottoman Turkish texts are transcribed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI)-operated tools, such as Handwritten … Continue reading Exploring the (Digital) World of Ottoman Turkish Texts: The Digital Ottoman Corpora
Last spring I wrote a post on why video games should be considered valued tools for teaching non-Western narratives of … Continue reading Video Games and the Humanities: A Call for Scholarly Games
The 29th International Congress of Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO) took place in cooperation with the “Turkologentag 2023 — Fourth … Continue reading Notes from the Field: Digital Humanities at #DAVO2023
MapHub allows users to make either thematic or regional maps using Geographic Information Systems as an interactive map. It provides … Continue reading MapHub: A Brief Tutorial