Field Guide Roundup

Shurish is a Farsi periodical that can be accessed online through a webpage maintained by the Digital Library of the Middle East. The online collection comprises more than 30 issues of the periodical.

Niru-yi Sivvum (The Third Force) was a publication linked to a reformist political movement in 1950s Iran, closely aligned with the Iran Party and Mohammad Mossadegh’s National Front. It promoted democratic socialism, anti-colonialism, and the nationalization of Iran’s oil resources, acting as a key voice for political advocacy and mobilization during a transformative period in… CONTINUE READING

Leuven Database of Ancient Books is a database that “attempts to collect the basic information on all ancient literary texts, as opposed to documents, not only in Latin and Greek, but in all ancient languages. Cuneiform is not yet covered, nor are the Egyptian Books of the Dead. At present, it includes 17296 items, dating… CONTINUE READING

Arab & Middle Eastern Genealogy Books Online is a “collection of books…from multiple sources, including New York University and FamilySearch. They are open-source books focused on genealogy from the Middle East and North Africa, including Arabic, Persian and English texts.”

“The Special Collections Division of The University of Manchester Library holds a collection of nearly 15,000 fragments from the Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo. They were purchased from the estate of Dr Moses Gaster in 1954. They are mostly written in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Arabic but there are also a few… CONTINUE READING

“The Special Collections Division of The University of Manchester Library holds a collection of nearly 15,000 fragments from the Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo. They were purchased from the estate of Dr Moses Gaster in 1954. They are mostly written in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Arabic but there are also a few… CONTINUE READING

IslamicBank-HCDi-RoBERTa is a “RoBERTa-based NLP transformer model fine-tuned to classify dimensions of human capital disclosure in Islamic banking. The model identifies whether a text segment is substantively related to human capital and assigns it to one of six human capital disclosure dimensions or to a separate Not related class. The model is based on FacebookAI/roberta-base… CONTINUE READING

The University of Cambridge’s digital Cairo Genizah collection contains over 133,000 manuscript fragments, including more than 3,300 documents in Arabic from the 10th to 16th centuries.

The Aʻzam Dukht Qavami collection contains images of 96 items from 19th-20st-century Iran such as “photographs; objects of daily life; legal and financial documents, including: inheritance, property sale settlement, and power of attorney. Most of these items belonged to Aʻzam Dukht Qavami, daughter of Mihrangiz Khvajah-nuri and Manuchihr Qavami, and wife of Muhammad Riza Sawmiʻi.”

The Afsaneh Esfandiari (Gidfar) collection contains “family photographs and legal and financial documents, including depositions and settlements” from 19th–21st-century Iran.