Virtual Open House 3: Come Learn About Our Data
Please join us for an online ‘Open House’ convened by the Centre for Digital Humanities at the Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom and ...
Text Reuse Data Release, version 2023.1.8
A new version of KITAB’s text reuse data is now available to download at Zenodo, an Open Science platform that supports Open Access. The current release feat...
Call For Papers : Arabic Pasts 2024
Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies
Call For Papers : Arabic Pasts 2023
Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies
OpenITI release 2022.2.7
The KITAB team has released a new version (2022.2.7) of the OpenITI corpus at Zenodo. The release is open access. It is our seventh release (second release i...
OpenITI release 2022.1.6
The KITAB team has released a new version (2022.1.6) of the OpenITI corpus at Zenodo. The release is open access. It is our fifth release (second release in ...
A Close and Distant Reading of Writerly Practices: Sarah Bowen Savant’s Inaugural Lecture
On Thursday 5th of May 2022 Sarah Bowen Savant gave her inaugural lecture as full professor at the AKU-ISMC.
Call for Papers: A Workshop on Citation (25th-26th July 2022)
Modeling Attribution and Acknowledgement in the Digital Humanities: Citation Practices and the Pre-Modern Arabic Book.
OpenITI release 2021.2.5
The KITAB team has released a new version (2021.2.5) of the OpenITI corpus at Zenodo. The release is open access. It is our fifth release (second release in ...
Call for Papers – Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies (Annual Workshop)
This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on history writing in Arabic. We encourage contributions focused on methodolo...
OpenITI release 2021.1.4
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 relea...
KITAB postdoc Gowaart Van Den Bossche wins BRAIS-De Gruyter dissertation prize – 2020
The British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) and De Gruyter have announced the outcome of the fifth (2020) round of the BRAIS–De Gruyter Prize in the ...
Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies Research workshop (October 22-24, 2020 London)
This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on history writing in Arabic. This year the event will be held online to allo...
Call for Participation in KITAB (Knowledge, Information Technology, and the Arabic Book)
The KITAB project is seeking researchers who are interested in collaborating to advance their own, distinct research projects. The aim is to build a small gr...
Arabic Pasts – 2018
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 t...
Happy News from the ERC…..and Some Details
The European Research Council has awarded KITAB a five-year, €2 million grant that will enable us to make major progress on our research agenda.