Turkish Islam Ansiklopedisi Available Online
The 44 volume İslâm Ansiklopedisi is reason enough to learn Turkish. And its companion website is, as far as I can…
Author: The Digital Orientalist
Report on Digital Islamic Humanities Conference at Brown University
On Friday Oct 16, a conference was hosted at Brown University bringing together those in Islamic Studies who are working…
IBM Model M: the mother of all keyboards
This is one of those geekier posts. Mechanical keyboards. Again. And this time I had the opportunity to test the…
Comparing Digital Materials from Leiden
A hands-on comparison of the digital materials from the manuscript collections of Leiden University, the Netherlands, executed by Brill Publishers. Preface…
Comparing Digital Materials from the Middle East
A hands-on comparison of the digital materials from manuscript collections of Beirut, Nablus, Jerusalem, and Riyadh. Preface Digitization projects have…
Online Searchable Dictionaries for Islamic Studies: A Preliminary List
A short list of dictionaries well-known in Islamic Studies, that are now digitally available online. There are of course a…
Now also on Twitter!
New posts are as of now also announced on the Twitter account @DigiOrientalist . So far the main method of distribution…
Comparing Digital Materials from Berlin, Munich, and Leipzig
A hands-on comparison of the digital materials from the manuscript collections of the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Munich, and the Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig.…
al-Ghazālī on Archiving and Backups
Whilst reading al-Ghazālī’s Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn, I came to think of a new way to visualize both my archive and my…
Comparing Digital Materials from Paris
A hands-on comparison of the digital materials from the manuscript collections of Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF, Paris), and a review of…