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…
Category: Islamic Studies
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…
Review: Among Digitized Manuscripts by L.W.C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020)
For this post, I will be reviewing the new book Among Digitized Manuscripts by C. van Lit (Leiden: Brill, 2020), authored by…
Databases and Repositories for the Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in East Asia: A Preliminary List (Part 2)
In the first part of this post, I provided readers with a list of resources for discovering texts and authors…
Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models
This is a contribution by Christine Roughan of NYU. Connect with her on Twitter @cmroughan Over the summer of 2019, inspired by the promising results in articles like Romanov et al. 2017, I set out to use the…
GSM: A Lesson for Beginners, by a Beginner
Composing a text for a website such as this requires a balancing act between the website’s likely readership. Some readers…
Databases and Repositories for the Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in East Asia: A Preliminary List (Part 1)
Those familiar with my work may be aware of my research on Christian-Muslim Relations (CMR) in China and Japan which…
Google Translate with One Click (Mac)
Yes we all know; Google translator is best described as “quick and dirty”. Nonetheless, we all use it because it…
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…
Why Shamila? Arabic Libraries on your Computer
The most famous Arabic digital library (both online and on computer) is al-Shamila. It contains roughly 7260 Arabic books (when this…