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
“The KITAB corpus is the Arabic subcorpus of the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI)…a multi-institutional effort to create not only a scientifically curated and open corpus of Islamicate (mainly Arabic and Persian) texts compliant with international data standards, accompanied by scholarly metadata and representative of the diversity of historic traditions but also a full digital… CONTINUE READING
“YallaMorph is a large-scale benchmark for evaluating the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform controlled Arabic morphological generation. Given an Arabic lemma, part-of-speech (POS), gloss, and a set of target morphosyntactic features, the task is to generate the corresponding fully diacritized Arabic surface form or forms. The benchmark also includes morphologically invalid feature… CONTINUE READING
“YallaMorph is a large-scale benchmark for evaluating the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform controlled Arabic morphological generation. Given an Arabic lemma, part-of-speech (POS), gloss, and a set of target morphosyntactic features, the task is to generate the corresponding fully diacritized Arabic surface form or forms. The benchmark also includes morphologically invalid feature… CONTINUE READING
Ceride-i Mehâkim (Journal of the Courts) was an Ottoman legal periodical published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which served as a gazette for court decisions, legal reforms, and judicial administration within the Ottoman Empire.
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
