By Sohaib Baig In this essay, I reflect on the possibilities of analyzing metadata of Islamic manuscript collections to better understand Islamic legal history. This is inspired in general terms … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Islamic Legal History and the Blossoming Dataverse of Islamic Manuscripts
By Sohaib Baig In the previous two essays, I conducted collection-level analysis of a Turkish union catalog containing more than half a million records to explore the textual landscapes of … Continue reading Travelogues and Islamic Law: Vignettes from an Indian Ḥanafī Hajj Account, 1839
By Sohaib Baig In the previous essay, I explored the transmission of South Asian Muslim scholarship to the Ottoman Empire by analyzing contemporary holdings of Turkish manuscript collections. In this … Continue reading The Textual Landscapes of Ḥanafī Eurasia: South Asian Scholarship in Turkish Print Collections (Part 2 of 2)
By Sohaib Baig I recently attended a gathering that focused on brainstorming the potential scopes of a digital project on Islamic legal history. Someone posed a deceptively simple question: how … Continue reading Islamic Law Collections across 14 North American Libraries
