At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (3): Bridging Communities and Building the Future
Introduction The first article of this series explored the general landscape of digital studies on Arabic script in France. The…
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At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France
As Dominique Stutzmann points out in an article for the renowned French media outlet L’Histoire in 2017, paleography has undergone…
The Consortium DISTAM (DIgital STudies Africa, Asia, Middle East): structuring DH in areal studies in France
Since 2022, DISTAM (DIgital STudies Africa, Asia, Middle East) has been a consortium of the French research infrastructure Huma-Num. It…
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A Postcard from the World of Print: Algeria’s Place in the Digital Humanities
How does Algeria fit into the world of digital humanities? First, we have to determine what we mean, when we…
Digital Contributions of Auction Houses: The Emergence of the Chahar Maqala’s Oldest Manuscript
The rise of digital humanities has revolutionized scholarly pursuits, particularly in literature, where the accessibility of digital images of manuscripts…
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Notes from the Field: Digital Humanities at #DAVO2023
The 29th International Congress of Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO) took place in cooperation with the “Turkologentag 2023 — Fourth…
Georgian-Persian Illuminated Historical Documents from K.Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts
The digitization of Georgian-Persian illuminated documents represents an important and urgent cultural and research desideratum. These rare manuscripts remain exceptional,…
Cocoon: A Platform for Documenting the World’s Languages
Since 2006, the French linguist community has had a tool for depositing the sound sources that document the world’s linguistic…
Digital Resources for the Study of Persian Manuscripts
The following resources are some of the main institutions and libraries for the purpose, but this post can be updated…
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Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 3
This is the third part of the interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian…