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 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.
“The Michaelides fragments comprise the largest private collection of Arabic papyri to be found in any institution worldwide.Cambridge University Library bought the collection in 1977 from the heirs of the antiques dealer Georges Anastase Michaelides (1900-1973). Born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and France, G.A. Michaelides developed a profound interest in the history and… CONTINUE READING
“SaudiLegalAI-8B is a specialized legal artificial intelligence model developed by Abdul Wasey specifically for the Saudi Arabian legal system. Built upon the advanced Qwen3-8B architecture and optimized with Apple MLX framework, this model provides expert-level assistance in Saudi legal matters, combining modern commercial law with traditional Islamic jurisprudence.” The model integrates Saudi commercial law, Islamic… CONTINUE READING
Kān Zamān is a date converter designed for academics working on the Islamicate world. It features a toggle for dyslexic-friendly reading and an uncluttered UI, the ability to choose between conversions for an entire year range or a specific day, support for Arabic-Indic and Western Arabic numerals inputs, and outputs in English, IJMES transliteration, and… CONTINUE READING
OpenITI MAKHZAN is a “large aggregation of Arabic-script ground truth and evaluation data drawn from a wide variety of Persian, Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, and Urdu print and handwritten (manuscript) documents.” “Comprising nearly 1,500 page images across 208 documents sourced from 30 repositories worldwide, the dataset spans seven languages, around 20 unique and mixed script types,… CONTINUE READING
