This summer course is for graduate (MA and PhD) students and researchers who work with manuscript materials in Arabic script and want to learn how to...

3 July 2019|news and events COBHUNI

ReIRes. Three days course on Digital Humanities and Historical Religious Studies at Fscire

https://reires.eu Thomas Milo and Alicia González Martínez (instructors)

8 May 2019|news and events COBHUNI

A New Strategy for Arabic OCR:

DATeCH 2019 International Conference, May 8-10 2019, Brussels, Belgium

http://datech.digitisation.eu
Thomas Milo and Alicia González Martínez

8 May 2019|news and events COBHUNI

A New Strategy for Arabic OCR: Archigraphemes, Letter Blocks, Script Grammar, and shape synthesis

http://datech.digitisation.eu
Thomas Milo and Alicia González Martínez

7 February 2019|news and events COBHUNI

Making search work in Arabic-scripted text

You are doing a web search for a known Arabic phrase, but you can’t find it. Did that ever happen to you? If you did find it, do you realise that you...

4 July 2018|workshop

Summer School "Arabic Codicology and Palaeography"

Mrs. Khaoula Trad has been awarded a scholarship sponsored by the European Research Project SICLE (ERC 670628) and the Fundación General UCM in...

26 June 2018|lecture

COBHUNI Lecture: Reflections on the history of embryology: from the 18th century to the digital embryo

In the history of biology, embryology has long been a field rather neglected by historians of science who preferred to study genetics, molecular...

12 June 2018|lecture

COBHUNI Lecture: The fourth long vowel of Quranic Arabic

The Language of the Quran has been subject to much debate in the past century; These days, a virtual consensus seems to have formed that the language...

27 March 2018|conference participation

"The Embryo and the Expert" in Cambridge

On Tuesday March 27 2018, Melanie Guénon from the ERC Project COBHUNI will give a talk at the Academic Colloquium Reading is Believing? Sacred Texts...

24 January 2018|lecture

COBHUNI Lecture: How an ancient text drives technological innovation

Handling discrepancies between historical text, encoding, script grammar, calligraphic conventions, and modernised Azhar orthography in Unicode and in...

12 December 2017|event

COBHUNI Poster Presentation

COBHUNI will present research results of 2017!
The presentations will take place on Wednesday, December 13th 2017 from 10 am c.t. in the AS-Saal |...

4 December 2017|publication

Eve and the triple T in the Jewish and Islamic traditions

Khaoula Trad from the COBHUNI team has published an article aboout her Master Thesis at ILU Journal.

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From Parchments to Bits: DH Tools in building Digital Corpora from Ancient Manuscripts

Second Summer School in Islamicate Digital Humanities for Scholars in Manuscript Studies

Presentation of the COBHUNI project in Madrid

"Ugly like Nakīr, illiterate like the Prophet. Fatwās on blasphemy by al-Qābisī of Qayrawān (d. 403/1012)."

Article by team member Melanie Guénon

Expressions of piety in Arabic papyri - texts on David and Jesus.

The mawʾūda (Q 81:8) in the Qurʾān and in Hadīth Material

YaKabikaj: a search algorithm for Arabic-scripted languages. Real-time Unicode normalization

ISLAMICATE DIGITAL HUMANITIES FOR SCHOLARS IN MANUSCRIPT STUDIES