Comparing Digital Materials from the Middle East
A hands-on comparison of the digital materials from manuscript collections of Beirut, Nablus, Jerusalem, and Riyadh. Preface Digitization projects have…
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Online Searchable Dictionaries for Islamic Studies: A Preliminary List
A short list of dictionaries well-known in Islamic Studies, that are now digitally available online. There are of course a…
Now also on Twitter!
New posts are as of now also announced on the Twitter account @DigiOrientalist . So far the main method of distribution…
Comparing Digital Materials from Berlin, Munich, and Leipzig
A hands-on comparison of the digital materials from the manuscript collections of the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Munich, and the Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig.…
Comparing Digital Materials from Paris
A hands-on comparison of the digital materials from the manuscript collections of Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF, Paris), and a review of…
Comparing Digital Materials from Tehran
A hands-on comparison of the quality of digital materials offered by the manuscript collections from Tehran. Digitization projects have been taken…
Comparing Digital Materials from Istanbul
A hands-on comparison of the quality of digital materials offered by the manuscript collections from Istanbul. Digitization projects have been taken…
Book Repositories for Islamic Studies (not a preliminary list)
I shall not attempt to put together a list of online repositories for books related to Islamic Studies, whether it…
Full-Text Online Arabic Sources: A Preliminary List
A truly epic amount of Arabic books, both classical and modern, have been scanned already. But what is the status…
Mapping Digitized Manuscript Collections
Among the first-generation digitization projects in the humanities is disclosing manuscripts. Disclosing those disclosures is a natural follow-up. One way to…