- In “Detecting Text Reuse in Historical Arabic Texts: Challenges and Strategies” (Journal of Digital Islamicate Research),Tynan Kelly (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University) “introduces alNaql, a new TRD software specifically designed for Arabic. By incorporating algorithms tailored to Arabic’s unique morphological and syntactic properties, alNaql identifies significantly more reuse instances than currently available tools. We compare its performance to that of passim – which has previously been used by researchers in the Islamicate digital humanities – and TextPAIR, known for its success in European corpora. Our results demonstrate that alNaql not only captures all reuse instances found by passim, the vast majority detected by TextPAIR, but also reveals many matches missed by both.” [login required]