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Dear colleagues, registration is open for an online workshop about DH and Islamic Studies, which I am co-organizing at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wc1P9kT9QziZBNmsjEIG5w The workshop will take place on Saturday, Nov. 20, 10:00-17:30 (GMT). The program follows below. Best wishes, Dagmar Riedel

10:00-10:15 Welcome

10:15-13:00 Panel 1: Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies 10:15-10:20 Andrew Cusworth (University of Oxford), chair – Introduction 10:20-10:50 Megan Gooch (University of Oxford) – The View from Outside of Islamic Studies 10:50-11:20 Daniel Burt (University of Oxford) – Digital Humanities at the Khalili Research Centre 11:20-11:50 Yasmin Faghihi (University of Cambridge) – FIHRIST and Challenges of Sustainability and Funding in Digital Humanities 11:50-12:00 Q&A

Break

13:00-15:00 Panel 2: Computational Tools for Research in the Arabic Script Humanities 13:00-13:10 Irene Kirchner (Georgetown University), chair – Introduction 13:10-13:40 Suphan Kirmizialtin (NYU Abu Dhabi) – Handwritten-Text-Recognition for Arabic Script 13:40-14:10 Eric Atwell (University of Leeds) – SketchEngine for Text Collection and Analysis, WEKA for Classification 14:10-14:30 Maroussia Bednarkiewicz (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) – Digital Humanities Methods for Hadith and Arabic Literature 14:30-14:50 Irene Kirchner (Georgetown University) – Digital Humanities Methods for Islamic Jurisprudence, Qur’an Interpretation and Hadith Studies 14:50-15:00 Q&A

Break

15:30-17:00 Panel 3: Collaborative Projects as DH Case Studies 15:00-15:05 Mohammad Emami (University of Oxford), chair – Introduction 15:35-16:00 Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) – Orient Digital Project description: https://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/die-staatsbibliothek/abteilungen/orient/p... 16:00-16:25 Arezou Azad (University of Oxford) – Invisible East: Developing a Digital Corpus of Local Texts from the Islamicate East (800-1300 CE) Programme description: https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/home#/ 16:25-16:50 Alba Fedeli & Alicia Gonzalez Martinez (both of the Universität Hamburg) – InterSaME: Encoding and Analyzing the Diacritical Layer of Qur'anic Manuscripts Project summary: https://www.intersame.uni-hamburg.de/project.html 16:50-17:00 Q&A

17:00-17:30 Conclusion