Digital Humanities and Manuscript Archives in Iran
Professor Dr. Rasul Jafarian has significantly contributed to digital humanities during his services as the director of some of the…
Category: Islamic Studies
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Interviewing Dr Hoffmann-Ruf about “Qalamos: connecting manuscript traditions”
The new portal ‘Qalamos: connecting manuscript traditions’ provides metadata of oriental manuscripts from more than 25 collections in Germany. I…
Shahnama Studies in the Digital Era
Shiva Mihan – Ali Shapouran The Shahnama or Book of Kings, one of the world’s longest epics, is the national epic of…
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An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 2
This is the second part of the interview with Sarah Savant, Professor at the Aga Khan University–Institute for the Study…
An interview with Professor Sarah Savant about KITAB project, part 1
KITAB project is developing a corpus of Arabic texts to which they apply digital methods in such a way that…
Nail and Griffin on Paper: Exploring a Fingernail Calligraphy Album from Twentieth-century Iran
Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes (independent paper and book conservator and researcher, Utrecht, the Netherlands) and Shiva Mihan (Fellow in the School of…
Decolonize University-Based Journals
The Algerian Scientific Journals Platform (ASJP) is an electronic publishing platform developed and managed by the Research Center for Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST) of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria.
A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 2
This week we publish the second part of “A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic”…
A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 1
This week’s guest contribution is by Ishida Yuri, Okayama University, Special-Appointment Assistant Professor, and Shinoda Tomoaki, Tokyo University of Foreign…
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…