by Sarah Savant | Nov 14, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Researchers working on historical Arabic texts have long known about transmission practices that resulted in considerable differences between ostensibly the same works. Scholars transmitted to many students and sometimes over long time spans; works were transmitted...
by Sarah Savant | Nov 4, 2019 | Uncategorized |
The Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) is a multi-institutional effort to construct the first open-access machine-actionable scholarly corpus of premodern Islamicate texts. The co-PIs for the project are Maxim Romanov (University of Vienna), Sarah Bowen Savant...
by Sarah Savant | Jun 8, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Scholars working in Arabic can now download the entire corpus used by the KITAB team through Zenodo, an Open Science platform that supports Open Access. Users will find in the corpus here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3082464 Number of authors: 1,859. Number of...
by Sarah Savant | Jan 16, 2018 | Uncategorized |
The European Research Council has awarded KITAB a five-year €2 ml grant that will enable us to make major progress on our research agenda. The project is titled “Exploring Cultural Memory in the Pre-Modern Islamic World (700–1500): Knowledge, Information...
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