EAN: 9783110374544

THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND ISLAMIC & MIDDLE EAS...

Over the past few decades  humanistic inquiry has been problematized and invigorated by the
emergence of what is referred to as the digital humanities. Across multiple disciplines  from
history to literature  religious studies to philosophy  archaeology to music  scholars are
tapping the extraordinary power of digital technologies to preserve  curate  analyze  visualize
and reconstruct their research objects. The study of the Middle East and the broader Islamic
world has been no less impacted by this new paradigm. Scholars are making daily use of digital
tools and repositories including private and state-sponsored archives of textual sources 
digitized manuscript collections  densitometrical imaging  visualization and modeling software
and various forms of data mining and analysis. This collection of essays explores the state of
the art in digital scholarship pertaining to Islamic & Middle Eastern studies  addressing areas
such as digitization  visualization  text mining  databases  mapping  and e-publication. It is
of relevance to any researcher interested in the opportunities and challenges engendered by
this changing scholarly ecosystem.

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