Running IIIF Locally: A Simple Setup Guide
Introduction Many of the fields of study here on The Digital Orientalist rely heavily on images hosted online. In textual…
Tag: Digital Humanities
Digital Coptic Studies: Where Do We Stand—and Where Do We Go Next?
This is a guest post by Mona Hassan Ahmed Sawy. Over the past decade, Coptic studies, in all its branches—language,…
Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (2)
This post is the second part of a conversation between Ephrem A. Ishac and David Michaelson on the state of…
Interview with Prof. David Michelson: From Syriaca.org to the British Library and Beyond (1)
Between October and November 2025, Prof. David Michelson served as a visiting fellow at the Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO)…
Editor’s Digest April 2026: Persian, Turkic, and Biblical Studies
In my first Editor’s Digest in December 2024, I summarised the posts of the Persian, Turkic, and Biblical Studies team published between…
The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions (Part 2)
This is a guest post by Abdulqadir K Haidermota. This post is the second of a two-part series. The first…
The Affective Algorithm: Mapping the Emotional Architecture of Fatimid Geniza Petitions (Part 1)
This is a guest post by Abdulqadir K Haidermota. Introduction: The Affective Engine of the State ‘Recently the slave was…
AI-Generated Feedback: Preliminary Thoughts
A colleague recently posted on social media about their experience using paperreview.ai (Stanford Agentic Reviewer), an AI tool that is…
Buddhism and AI: Another Look
In recent months, I have come to identify as a neo-Luddite or, as a colleague said in jest, “a technophobe…
At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (3): Bridging Communities and Building the Future
Introduction The first article of this series explored the general landscape of digital studies on Arabic script in France. The…