by Sarah Savant | May 2, 2018 | Early Arabic tradition |
With text reuse detection, we rely on the power, speed, and memory of a computer to find common passages between texts. From our data so far, we can already see hundreds, or even thousands, of cases that point to the liquidity of the written tradition. By “liquid,” I...
by Sarah Savant | Sep 10, 2017 | Early Arabic tradition |
Measuring variation in the early tradition In this first blog I begin with a discussion of what our methods might be able to show us about the early transmission of the written tradition. The case I take up involves the Muwaṭṭaʾ (“the well-trodden path”) of Imam Mālik...
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