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
Akis: Ottoman Transcription Tool “is carried out in cooperation with DH Lab and VERİM (Data Analytics Research and Application Center). Our aim is to develop recognition technologies that can transcribe Ottoman Turkish handwritten and printed works written in Arabic and Persian script into Latin script. Thus we want to make texts in Ottoman archives and… CONTINUE READING
Post-classical Islamic Philosophy Database Initiative (PIPDI) is a McGill Initiative aiming to “create the infrastructure that is needed for a systematic investigation of the vast but severely understudied corpus of Islamic philosophical texts dating from 1100-1900 CE.”
Organization of Islamic Cooperation Archives is a database maintained by the UN with a full-text search function that archives documents published by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
Fiqh Database is a webpage dedicated to answering questions related to Islamic law. The database is maintained by the Islamic Association of Raleigh (IAR), which is “an Islamic center serving as a masjid, school, and a gathering place for the Muslim community in the Triangle region of North Carolina.”
Dijital Ilahiyat Arastirmalari of “[t]he Applied Digital Islamicate Studies Educational Program aims to contribute to the digitalizing of Islamicate research’s processes.”
Translatio is a digitization project that “focuses on Arabic, Persian and Ottoman-Turkish periodicals published during the Middle Eastern and Asian ‘saddle period’ between 1860 and 1945 and making them digitally accessible.”
A Guide to Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies is a library webpage prepared by University Libraries at the University of Washington in St. Louis. It provides a useful list of various digital projects on Islamic studies.
mutūn: “The mutūn project looks to empower non-technical users by facilitating access both to thousands of digitized Arabic texts and to natural language processing tools specifically designed for Arabic. Building off of the pioneering work of the Open Islamic Texts Initiative (OpenITI) and the KITAB project in collecting and curating a meta-corpus of over 13,000… CONTINUE READING
CLJ: “The CLJ Legal Network Sdn Bhd (199001000794) (192353-V) is an independent, fully Malaysian-owned, legal publishing company employing the Internet as its medium of delivery.”
