by Gowaart Vandenbossche | Dec 3, 2019 | What's new |
Running passim on the OpenITI corpus allows us to identify a vast number of instances of text reuse, but the quality of these results from a historical point of view depends on the quality of texts in the corpus. As the material was pulled from various often...
by Sarah Savant | Mar 15, 2019 | What's new |
Paper abstracts are now welcome for the annual “Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography” workshop, to be held 18 and 19th of October 2019 at the Aga Khan Centre, London. More details. Share...
by Claire Savina | Nov 8, 2018 | What's new |
The “Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography” workshop was held in the new Aga Khan Centre in London on the 12th and 13th of October and featured papers treating history writing from the origins of Islam up to the present day. Organized by Hugh Kennedy,...
by Sarah Savant | Sep 7, 2018 | What's new |
The digital revolution is arriving rather late to Middle Eastern Studies, but it is coming fast. Now, we can see the written tradition at a distance with KITAB’s first dataset. Spoiler: it is hugely intertexual. There are important caveats: we need to build a more...
by Editor | Sep 7, 2018 | What's new |
The Aga Khan University-ISMC is seeking three post-doctoral research fellows to work with an international and interdisciplinary group of investigators for the European Research Council-funded project, KITAB (Knowledge, Information Technology, and the Arabic Book )....
by Editor | Sep 2, 2018 | What's new |
KITAB members are happy to welcome Claire Savina, our new Research Associate. Claire is a Comparative Literature and Arabic Studies researcher and is interested in Translation, Circulation and History of Texts, as well as World Literature and Intertextuality across...
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