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
Usul: “Usul.ai serves over 8,000 Islamic texts from the OpenITI corpus. Our goal is to make it easy to read, search, and research classical texts. Subscribe below to receive monthly updates on our work.”
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Qatar International Court judgments is a searchable database of the case law of the Qatar International Court, described as “a world-class civil and commercial court. It applies international best practices in dispute resolution and brings together renowned and experienced judges from around the world.”
Akis: Ottoman Transcription Tool “is carried out in cooperation with DH Lab and VERİM (Data Analytics Research and Application Center). Our aim is to develop recognition technologies that can transcribe Ottoman Turkish handwritten and printed works written in Arabic and Persian script into Latin script. Thus we want to make texts in Ottoman archives and… CONTINUE READING
Post-classical Islamic Philosophy Database Initiative (PIPDI) is a McGill Initiative aiming to “create the infrastructure that is needed for a systematic investigation of the vast but severely understudied corpus of Islamic philosophical texts dating from 1100-1900 CE.”
Organization of Islamic Cooperation Archives is a database maintained by the UN with a full-text search function that archives documents published by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
Fiqh Database is a webpage dedicated to answering questions related to Islamic law. The database is maintained by the Islamic Association of Raleigh (IAR), which is “an Islamic center serving as a masjid, school, and a gathering place for the Muslim community in the Triangle region of North Carolina.”
Dijital Ilahiyat Arastirmalari of “[t]he Applied Digital Islamicate Studies Educational Program aims to contribute to the digitalizing of Islamicate research’s processes.”