by Aslisho Qurboniev | Apr 29, 2021 | What's new |
Quantitative and Macro-analytic Approaches What do we know about the authors of the earliest Arabic books in terms of their native origins and linguistic and cultural backgrounds? Were the majority of them Arabic-speaking Muslims from imperial capitals, or non-Arab...
by Mathew Barber | Apr 29, 2021 | What's new |
Can Digital Humanities be informed by bioinformatics? Visualising passim data for multiple-book relationships As KITAB’s research has shown, passim is an incredibly powerful tool for answering a variety of questions about book history and history in general. The...
by Anjum Alam | Mar 30, 2021 | What's new |
This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on history writing in Arabic. We encourage contributions focused on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies that investigate history writing in the Middle East and North Africa...
by Masoumeh Seydi | Feb 12, 2021 | What's new |
The KITAB team has released a new version (2021.1.4) of the OpenITI corpus at Zenodo. The release is open access and freely available. It is our fourth release (first release in 2021) You can also access the release through our GitHub repository. The release features...
by Thomas Benfey | Dec 11, 2020 | What's new |
At the Arabic Pasts conference this year, Hugh Kennedy and I presented a paper in the panel dedicated to the Invisible East program, chaired by the program’s PI Arezou Azad. The paper focused on a fragment from an as-yet-unknown Arabic historical text, focused on the...
by Peter Verkinderen | Dec 3, 2020 | What's new |
(This is the first blog post in a longer series of posts about the sources of OpenITI) Al-Maktaba al-Shāmila (“The comprehensive library”, often referred to simply as Shamela) is a free software that aims at providing a digital research environment for Islamic...
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