A weekly list introducing two online resources of Islamic law, ranging from e-archives to e-libraries, from digitized personal collections to online depositories of first and secondary sources on Islamic law
“Quantifying Islamic Law in the Modern State” uses quantitative methods to “reconstruct” Islamic legal tradition through almost 800 shari’a court cases in Morocco from 1921–1957—the colonial period and the last decades prior to state codification of shari’a. The project focused on quantifying the frequency of over 200 jurists that judges of this era mentioned in… CONTINUE READING
“From Pen to Printing Press: Ten Centuries of Islamic Book Arts” is a permanent online collection adapted from the 2009 Indiana University Art Museum special exhibition of the same name, featuring manuscripts, miniatures, paintings, and early printed books.
The Haji Nurdin Ismail digitized manuscript collection contains nine eighteenth–twentieth century manuscripts in Arabic and Malay, including works of fiqh and tafsīr, currently housed in Sumatra, Indonesia.
“Farasa is the state-of-the-art full-stack package to deal with Arabic Language Processing. It has been developed by Arabic Language Technologies Group at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), and has a RESTful Web API that you can use through your favorite programming language.”
The Surau Sheikh Abdurrahman Collection of Sufic Texts “were digitised as part of the EAP205 Endangered Manuscript Collections of Sufi Brotherhoods in Western Sumatra project. The original manuscripts are held at the Surau Sheikh Abdurrahman in Kabupaten Lima Puluh Kota, Western Sumatra. One manuscript is a compendium of works concerned with Islamic law, mysticism, history,… CONTINUE READING
QURAN-MD “supports various applications, including natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, linguistic analysis, and digital Islamic studies. Bridging text and audio modalities across multiple reciters, this dataset provides a unique resource to advance computational approaches to Qur’anic recitation and study. Beyond enabling tasks such as ASR, tajweed detection, and Qur’anic TTS, it lays the… CONTINUE READING
The KITAB Project’s Diff Viewer is “an application that allows you to see the differences between two related pieces of text…[and] can be used with any two (relatively short) pieces of related text.” “Contrary to most other diff viewers, it is geared towards comparing texts rather than code, especially texts from the OpenITI corpus and… CONTINUE READING
The Archival Records from the Digitisation of Minangkabau’s Manuscript Collections in Suraus contain more than 250 manuscripts from West Sumatra, Indonesia. “These manuscripts contain various texts such as Al-Qur’an, Al-Qur’an Translation (Tafsir), Tasawuf, Fiqh, Agiography (The Stories of the Saints), Arabic Grammar, Minangkabau Laws, Kaba, Hikayat, Nazam, Azimat, Letters and Medicine which hold important information… CONTINUE READING
The Raja Fahrul Collection of Islamic Manuscripts contains 19 digitized manuscripts in Arabic, Dutch, Indonesian, and Malay from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including prayers, siyar, legal texts, poetry, and other documents.
Al-Azhar University provides free access to issues of Majallat al-Azhar as downloadable PDFs. The collection currently spans issues published between 1349 and 1435 AH (1931 and 2013 CE).
