Friday, June 27, 2025

Digital Toolbox for Iranian Studies

 Digital Toolbox for Iranian Studies

"The toolbox aims at collecting all available digital resources that are relevant to Iranian Studies & related fields of study. It may help you to find:

  • primary sources & academic literature
  • manuscripts & objects in digital archives & collections
  • historic maps, coinage, linguistic corpora
  • academic publications & institutions
  • podcasts, blogs & academic communities
  • and useful apps for your research"

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Three Open Access Books on the Silk Roads: by UNESCO

 

"The most astonishing innovations and fusions of the world’s religions, beliefs, and material cultures have occurred along the trade and communication networks between Asia, Africa, and Europe, known today as the Silk Roads. The empires and dynasties, fluctuating like ebbs and flows, triggered waves of cultural interchange across time and space, connected by caravans of knowledge and technological transfers crossing vast distances over barren steppes, impenetrable deserts, and unsurmountable ranges. This three-part volume on Architecture, Monuments and Urbanism explores cities and ports from Nanjing to Seville and Karakorum to Mumbai as individual pearls in a long string of historical vicissitudes and cultural exchanges across the overland Silk Roads and maritime Silk Routes." 


Editors: Paskaleva, Elena; Turner, Michael 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54678/JNRQ3162
ISBN: 978-92-3-100738-5
Collation: 343 pages : illustrations, maps
Language: English
Year of publication: 2025
Licence type: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO


Editors: Paskaleva, Elena; Turner, Michael 
Series title and vol / issues: Thematic collection of the cultural exchanges along the Silk Roads 
DOI:https://doi.org/10.54678/VMIH5884
ISBN: 978-92-3-100738-5
Collation: 375 pages : illustrations, maps
Language: English
Year of publication: 2025
Licence type: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO 








Editors: Paskaleva, Elena; Turner, Michael 
Series title and vol / issues: Thematic collection of the cultural exchanges along the Silk Roads
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54678/RUOM2593
ISBN: 978-92-3-100738-5
Collation: 347 pages : illustrations, maps
Language: English
Year of publication: 2025
Licence type: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO [14411]

Monday, May 19, 2025

The Analytical Database of Arabic Poetry

 "The Analytical Database of Arabic Poetry provides an innovative digital platform for research on the semantics of the Arabic language and the history of Arabic poetic tradition from late antiquity onwards. The development of the database was initiated in the research project “Language–Philology–Culture. Arab Cultural Semantics in Transition” 

The database includes:

Text corpus

Fully searchable texts of Arabic poetry in TEI/XML are provided with analytical data on authors, chronological periodisation, literary classification, geographical specification and semantic categorisation.

Dictionary

The historical dictionary implements comprehensive analytical tools and provides detailed information on the historical development of the vocabulary used in Arabic poetry and its various genres. Since there is neither a historical dictionary of Arabic nor a complete dictionary of classical Arabic in any European language, the database creates a unique and indispensable research tool on the semantics of Arabic.

Research data

Additional information tags and notes, a semantic register crosslinked with the Intercontinental Dictionary Series and detailed bibliographical information on sources used in the project provide research data making the database useful not just as an innovative literary and lexical source, but also as a reference work for wider research on Arabic literature, history and culture." 

Principal Investigator: Dr Kirill Dmitriev

Research project: Language–Philology–Culture. Arab Cultural Semantics in Transition.


Wednesday, April 16, 2025

OA Book: Tıflî Hikâyeleri


 Tıflî Hikâyeleri by David Selim Sayers 

"IV. Murad İstanbul’unda geçen ve cinsellik, para, aşk ve şiddet gibi konuları işleyen Tıflî hikâyeleri, 19. yüzyıl Osmanlı düzyazı edebiyatının önemli bir türünü oluşturur. Bu edebî türle ilgili ilk ve tek kapsamlı çalışma olan Tıfli Hikâyeleri, 19. yüzyıl Osmanlı kültürünün de çarpıcı bir panoramasını sunuyor. Kitap, hikâyelere ilişkin inceleme dışında eski yazıdan çeviri yazısı yapılan hikâye metinlerini de içeriyor. 

The Tifli Stories are a genre of Ottoman prose literature set in Istanbul during the reign of Murad IV (r. 1623-1640) and revolving around themes such as sex, money, passion, and violence. The first and only comprehensive study of this literary genre, Tifli Hikayeleri (The Tifli Stories) analyzes the stories to offer a vivid panorama of 19th-century Ottoman culture. The book further includes a comprehensive corpus of stories transliterated from Ottoman into modern Turkish."

URL, Paris Institute: https://parisinstitute.org/tifli-hikayeleri/ 

OA Journal مجلة الأزهر للعام

 


Open Access to the Journal of Al-Azhar (مجلة الأزهر للعام) from 1349 AH to 1435 AH. 

URL: https://azhar.gov.eg/Materials/magazine/index.htm


Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Open Access Book: The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār : Book Culture in Late Ottoman Palestine

 

Title: The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār : Book Culture in Late Ottoman Palestine
Series: Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 219

Volume Editors: Said Aljoumani, Guy Burak, and Konrad Hirschler

Published:  Brill, 2025
ISBN: 9789004720527

"This study is the first to examine the history and composition of the library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār (d. 1804), the famous governor of northern Palestine in the late eighteenth century, on the basis of the inventory of the library’s holdings..."

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Open Access Book: Muḥammad and His Followers in Context

Author:  Lindstedt, Ilkka.

Title: Muḥammad and His Followers in Context : The Religious Map of Late Antique Arabia.

Series: Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 209
Published : Brill, 2024

"The book surveys and analyzes changes in religious groups and identities in late antique Arabia, ca. 300-700 CE. It engages with contemporary and material evidence: for example, inscriptions, archaeological remains, Arabic poetry, the Qurʾān, and the so-called Constitution of Medina. Also, it suggests ways to deal with the later Arabic historiographical and other literary texts. The issue of social identities and their processes are central to the study. For instance, how did Arabian ethnic and religious identities intersect on the eve of Islam? The book suggests that the changes in social groups were more piecemeal than previously thought."