The Pote Collection of Islamic Manuscripts: The Highlights of Eton part (II)
The Pote collection of Islamic manuscripts was brought to England in 1790 and was divided between King’s College and Eton…
Category: Islamic Languages
Kitāb or kitaab: improving search and discovery for global languages
Written by Lara Salha, Harrison Pim, James Gorrie, and Adrian Plau. Wellcome Collection holds a diverse collection of multilingual items, ranging…
Your first computed visualization, or, how to use Python to understand the reception of Bukhari and Muslim Hadith collections
There comes a time when using Word or PowerPoint or Excel is not going to be enough to create a…
Automatic Arabic Translation Using Google: A Test
Several months ago a rather interesting blog post was brought to my attention. This was a post by Christopher Rose…
Deciphering Ottoman Turkish Manuscripts with LexiQamus
Sometimes it takes days or even weeks to be able to read and decipher a word in manuscripts. This problem,…
Some Thoughts on Databases
The state of semi-lockdown in Japan, and with the universities and their libraries all closed, has allowed me some time…
Some Thoughts about Arabic-Script OCR
Recently, as a result of my current research project —an edition and translation of al-Maqrizi’s fifteenth-century chronicle al-Suluk for the Ayyubid period…
Some notes on the usability of the Zotero Reference Manager for Historical Research
This post was written by guest contributor Jasper Bernhofer. Bernhofer received a Bachelor’s Degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Philosophy…
The Doha Historical Dictionary of Arabic
In 2013 the Arabic Center for Research and Politics Studies launched an ambitious ongoing program to build an Arabic Historical…
Never Trust Al-Shamila Search Results☝️
In this post our Arabo-Islamic Studies editor Maxim digs deeper into searching full-text Arabic corpora, comparing Shamela with Elkirtasse. He shows us…