DH Project at Utrecht University: Bridging the Gap
At Utrecht University, the project ‘Bridging the Gap: Digital Humanities and the Arabic-Islamic corpus’, seeks to “harness state-of-the art…
Category: Islamic Studies
Digital Printing of Arabic: The Problem Revisited
In this post I will respond to some points raised by Titus Nemeth. I already discussed his rhetoric so I…
Making Sense of the Cacophony of Voices from the Post-Classical Period of Islam
This small article explains how close reading is not useful in research on post-classical Islamic intellectual history. Instead, close reading…
Review of The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies
The book The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies provides an excellent introduction into DH for students and scholars.…
Mediation of Islamic Knowledge: Face to Face Conversations in Manuscripts
A small article on why manuscripts kept being popular in the Islamic world until very late. It appeared last year…
Digital Printing of Arabic: Mushaf Qatar
After having defined the problem, and having seen a solution, let us now familiarize ourselves with a bad example. Much…
Digital Printing of Arabic: Mushaf Muscat
In this series, we will consider how Arabic is and could be represented in a digital world. Our first, and…
Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem
Representing Arabic script on a computer has been problematic from the very beginning. In this series, we shall explore some…
Suleymaniye Manuscripts now come with a Watermark
I regret to inform you that when you procure digital photos of Turkish manuscripts, at least those who fall under…
Improved Keyboard Layout for Mac!
The Digital Orientalist presents… a new way of painlessly typing Arabic on a Mac! After the success of the keyboard…