Maxim Romanov on “Digital Humanities for Premodern Islamic History”

In a recent post on “al-Raqmiyyāt,” Maxim Romanov of the Universitätsassistent für Digital Humanities at the Institut für Geschichte offers an analysis of the overall volume of text reuse in the medieval Syrian historian Ḏhahabī’s Taʾrīkḫ al-Islām (History of Islam). In his post, Romanov notes how computational methods on digital texts allow scholars to discover connections between, and use of, Ḏhahabī’s sources themselves.

Read the full post on “al-Raqmiyyāt” at this link.

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