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 Haji Nurdin Ismail digitized manuscript collection contains nine eighteenth–twentieth century manuscripts in Arabic and Malay, including works of fiqh and tafsīr, currently housed in Sumatra, Indonesia.
“Farasa is the state-of-the-art full-stack package to deal with Arabic Language Processing. It has been developed by Arabic Language Technologies Group at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), and has a RESTful Web API that you can use through your favorite programming language.”
The Surau Sheikh Abdurrahman Collection of Sufic Texts “were digitised as part of the EAP205 Endangered Manuscript Collections of Sufi Brotherhoods in Western Sumatra project. The original manuscripts are held at the Surau Sheikh Abdurrahman in Kabupaten Lima Puluh Kota, Western Sumatra. One manuscript is a compendium of works concerned with Islamic law, mysticism, history,… CONTINUE READING
QURAN-MD “supports various applications, including natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, linguistic analysis, and digital Islamic studies. Bridging text and audio modalities across multiple reciters, this dataset provides a unique resource to advance computational approaches to Qur’anic recitation and study. Beyond enabling tasks such as ASR, tajweed detection, and Qur’anic TTS, it lays the… CONTINUE READING
The KITAB Project’s Diff Viewer is “an application that allows you to see the differences between two related pieces of text…[and] can be used with any two (relatively short) pieces of related text.” “Contrary to most other diff viewers, it is geared towards comparing texts rather than code, especially texts from the OpenITI corpus and… CONTINUE READING
The Archival Records from the Digitisation of Minangkabau’s Manuscript Collections in Suraus contain more than 250 manuscripts from West Sumatra, Indonesia. “These manuscripts contain various texts such as Al-Qur’an, Al-Qur’an Translation (Tafsir), Tasawuf, Fiqh, Agiography (The Stories of the Saints), Arabic Grammar, Minangkabau Laws, Kaba, Hikayat, Nazam, Azimat, Letters and Medicine which hold important information… CONTINUE READING
The Raja Fahrul Collection of Islamic Manuscripts contains 19 digitized manuscripts in Arabic, Dutch, Indonesian, and Malay from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including prayers, siyar, legal texts, poetry, and other documents.
Al-Azhar University provides free access to issues of Majallat al-Azhar as downloadable PDFs. The collection currently spans issues published between 1349 and 1435 AH (1931 and 2013 CE).
The University of Utah’s digitized, open-access “Arabic Papyrus, Parchment & Paper Collection is the largest of its kind in the United States, containing 770 Arabic papyrus documents, 1300 Arabic paper documents, and several pieces on parchment. . . . A large number of pieces date to the period between 700 and 850 CE. The collection… CONTINUE READING
The African Online Digital Library “provides free universal access to cultural heritage materials from and about African countries and communities. It brings together tens of thousands of digitized photographs, videos, archival documents, maps, interviews and oral histories in numerous African languages, many of which are contained in curated thematic galleries and teaching resources.” Its collections… CONTINUE READING
