By James Harry Morris Kirishitan (J. 吉利支丹/切支丹/キリシタン) were 16th and 17th Century, Japanese Roman Catholics introduced to Christianity by the…
My memories of visiting Foumban, Cameroon in 2006 are still fairly vivid after a twelve-year absence. The palace with a…
I recently attended the 2018 ASOR conference (one of the main conferences for my field in the United States), and…
In this post our Arabo-Islamic Studies editor Maxim digs deeper into searching full-text Arabic corpora, comparing Shamela with Elkirtasse. He shows us…
By James Harry Morris with thanks to Callum Morris. In August 2018, I developed the Kirishitan Collector Bot, a Twitter Bot…
The tale of how the Bassa Vah script came to be encoded into the Unicode Standard winds through Syracuse, Germany,…
Millions of documents have been scanned and stored as images of pages. Now what? For the past 1,5 years I…
I ended my last post with the assertion that inscribed objects are found in the ‘wrong’ building – that is,…
The most famous Arabic digital library (both online and on computer) is al-Shamila. It contains roughly 7260 Arabic books (when this…
By James Harry Morris with thanks to @ShrineWalker and Tomiyama Aki. Those of you who follow me on Twitter will likely be aware…
