Tackling Poetry with Python (2)
In a previous post, I described the preliminary work to do automated analysis on poetry. I now describe the actual…
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Digital Printing of Arabic: The Problem Revisited
In this post I will respond to some points raised by Titus Nemeth. I already discussed his rhetoric so I…
Difficulties in Keeping a Dialogue About Digital Humanities
Talking about DH on a blog will get some people angry with you. I will discuss here some examples arising from…
Making Sense of the Cacophony of Voices from the Post-Classical Period of Islam
This small article explains how close reading is not useful in research on post-classical Islamic intellectual history. Instead, close reading…
Review of The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies
The book The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies provides an excellent introduction into DH for students and scholars.…
Running Windows software on Mac
Many people in universities have a Mac. Yet, the world still for the most part runs on Windows. This can…
Mediation of Islamic Knowledge: Face to Face Conversations in Manuscripts
A small article on why manuscripts kept being popular in the Islamic world until very late. It appeared last year…
Tackling Poetry with Python
Poetry is among the best kind of texts to be manipulated with a programming language. Most of that work lies…
Digital Printing of Arabic: Mushaf Qatar
After having defined the problem, and having seen a solution, let us now familiarize ourselves with a bad example. Much…
Get Out of the Cloud
I use Dropbox and Google Drive to keep a synced backup of a handful of important files. I have noticed…