The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies

Published by De Gruyter 2016

The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies

Edited by: Elias Muhanna

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110376517

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About this book

Over the past few decades, humanistic inquiry has been problematized and invigorated by the emergence of what is referred to as the digital humanities. Across multiple disciplines, from history to literature, religious studies to philosophy, archaeology to music, scholars are tapping the extraordinary power of digital technologies to preserve, curate, analyze, visualize, and reconstruct their research objects.

The study of the Middle East and the broader Islamic world has been no less impacted by this new paradigm. Scholars are making daily use of digital tools and repositories including private and state-sponsored archives of textual sources, digitized manuscript collections, densitometrical imaging, visualization and modeling software, and various forms of data mining and analysis. This collection of essays explores the state of the art in digital scholarship pertaining to Islamic & Middle Eastern studies, addressing areas such as digitization, visualization, text mining, databases, mapping, and e-publication. It is of relevance to any researcher interested in the opportunities and challenges engendered by this changing scholarly ecosystem.

Author / Editor information

Elias Muhanna, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

Reviews

"This book offers a solid introduction to the application of computing technology in Islamic Studies."
L. W. Cornelis van Lit in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 137.4 (2017), pp. 855-859

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Islamic and Middle East Studies and the Digital Turn Elias Muhanna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Uncertainty and the Archive Travis Zadeh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Of Making Many Copies There is No End: The Digitization of Manuscripts and Printed Books in Arabic Script Dagmar Riedel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Al-Kindi on the Kindle: The Library of Arabic Literature and the Challenges of Publishing Bilingual Arabic-English Books Chip Rossetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Working with Grassroots Digital Humanities Projects: The Case of the Tall al-Zaʿtar Facebook Groups Nadia Yaqub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Toward Abstract Models for Islamic History Maxim Romanov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Quantifying the Quran Alex Brey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Mapping Ottoman Damascus Through News Reports: A Practical Approach Till Grallert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
“Find for Me!”: Building a Context-Based Search Tool Using Python José Haro Peralta and Peter Verkinderen Open Access Download PDF	199
Pedagogy and the Digital Humanities: Undergraduate Exploration into the Transmitters of Early Islamic Law Joel Blecher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
From Basmati Rice to the Bani Hilal: Digital Archives and Public Humanities Dwight F. Reynolds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 271
Keywords: Digital Humanities; Islam; Middle East.

eBook

Published: March 21, 2016
ISBN: 9783110376517

Hardcover

Published: March 21, 2016
ISBN: 9783110374544