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
Hipajattul Islam [Feb 1930 -Dec 1936] is a digitized periodical collection “mainly focusing on the doctrines of Islam and spread of Islam in Tamilnadu [India]. Original material is held by Anjuman Nusrathul Islam, Islamic Public Library, Kottakuppam.” The collection features 1,815 images.
“Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (PAL) is dedicated to the edition and study of the Arabic and Latin versions of Ptolemyʼs astronomical and astrological texts, and related material. These include works by Ptolemy or attributed to him, commentaries thereupon, and other works that are of immediate relevance to understanding Ptolemy’s reception and legacy in the Middle… CONTINUE READING
The Manuscripts of Arabic Handwriting (Muharaf) dataset is a “machine learning dataset consisting of more than 1,600 historic handwritten page images transcribed by experts in archival Arabic. Each document image is accompanied by spatial polygonal coordinates of its text lines as well as basic page elements. This dataset was compiled to advance the state of… CONTINUE READING
“Connected Papers creates a graph-based network that clusters similar works together, even if they don’t directly cite or reference each other. Instead of showing a citation tree, it uses data from Semantic Scholar to visualise academic relationships based on bibliographic coupling and co-citation analysis. This means you can quickly see groups of publications that share… CONTINUE READING
Tashkeela-Model is an Natural Language Processing (NLP) diacritization model for the Arabic language that uses “a collection of Arabic vocalized texts, which covers modern and classical Arabic…[and] contains over 75 million of fully vocalized words obtained from 97 books, structured in text and XML files.”
ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub) “helps users easily conduct and support computational research with digital collections at scale – e.g., text and data mining, data science, digital scholarship, machine learning, and more. Users can build custom research collections relevant to a wide range of subjects, generate and access research-ready datasets from collections, and analyze those… CONTINUE READING
“The RASAM dataset was developed by the Research Consortium Middle-East and Muslim Worlds (GIS MOMM), DISTAM, Calfa, and the BULAC Library between 2021 and 2023. It comprises a diverse collection of Maghrebi Arabic manuscripts from the BULAC Library, featuring a wide variety of handwriting styles, layouts, states of preservation, and other characteristics representative of Arabic… CONTINUE READING
Bahadin H. Kerborani‘s (University of Chicago) “Short Introduction to Kurdish Online Resources” compiles a list of “online primary and secondary Kurdish resources and collections that might make knowledge and sources more accessible” to researchers.
The BADR project database “includes 43 texts (Sīra-maghāzī texts, ṭābaqāt, recollections of hadiths, tafsīr and dalāʾil al-nubuwwa), around 700,000 words, and several tens of thousands of encoded named entities” extracted from al-Maktaba al-Shamela and the OpenITI repository. It “can be freely accessed on the server of the University of Strasbourg.” Learn more about BADR here.
“Arabic LLM Benchmarks” is a comprehensive GitHub repository “of Arabic LLMs benchmarks and evaluation benchmarks, curated from systematic research on evaluating Arabic Large Language Models” and organized into four categories: Knowledge includes benchmarks evaluating acquired knowledge and reasoning capabilities, along with domain-specific benchmarks in fields such as law and medicine. Natural Language Processing (NLP) encompasses… CONTINUE READING
