Robert Haug

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  • University of Utah Digitized Arabic Papyri Collection

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    The University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library has digitized its collection of Arabic papyrus, parchment, and paper and the collection looks fantastic. The collections totals over 2,000 documents (770 on papyrus and 1,300 on paper). Most of the documents originated in Egypt and many are dated from the 8th through early 9th centuries.

  • Classic Movies in Miniature Style

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    Artist Murat Palta of Istanbul has created a series of movie posters in the style of Ottoman miniatures. The series includes A Clockwork Orange, Alien, Pulp Fiction, and the amazing Star Wars poster pictured here. Check them out at Murat’s blog. http://www.behance.net/gallery/Classic-Movies-in-Miniature-Style/4455311

  • Signs of Conflict: Political Posters from Lebanon’s Civil War

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    I recently learned about Signs of Conflict, an on-line archive of political posters from Lebanon’s Civil War covering the years 1975-1990. It’s a very well organized collection. They have two different on-line exhibits that display their collection in two different ways. The first is organized chronologically, identifying each poster by political faction and year. The…

  • Islamic Heritage Project and the Open Collections Program

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    In collaboration with the Islamic Heritage Project, Harvard Library’s Open Collections Program has digitized “280 manuscripts, 275 printed texts, and 50 maps.” The collection includes a wide variety of materials and the scans are nice and clean.

  • West African Arabic Manuscript Project

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    The West African Arabic Manuscript Project catalogs over 23,000 Arabic manuscripts in collections across West Africa. Currently they have a bilingual searchable database and the ability to browse by topic headings. According to their home page, they are working on linking records to scans of the manuscripts themselves. While I’m looking forward to having access to…

  • Digital Averroes Research Environment

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    The Digital Averroes Research Environment is a digital collection of the works of Abu l-Walid Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Rushd (Averroes) from the Thomas-Institute at the University of Cologne. The project makes available digital editions of texts along with images of manuscripts used to compile the editions. Right now it looks like there are a handful…

  • Firman of Abd al-Rahman Khan

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    I wanted to share this great scan of the Firman of Abd al-Rahman Khan (the Iron Amir of Afghanistan, r. 1880-1901). I have students in my Afghan history courses read the firman (as translated in David Edwards, Heroes of the Age:Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier (1996)), but the image of the accompanying map always comes…

  • Hello world!

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    Welcome to WordPress.com. After you read this, you should delete and write your own post, with a new title above. Or hit Add New on the left (of the admin dashboard) to start a fresh post. Here are some suggestions for your first post. You can find new ideas for what to blog about by…