Category: Digital Resources
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University of Utah Digitized Arabic Papyri Collection
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.
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Signs of Conflict: Political Posters from Lebanon’s Civil War
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…
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Islamic Heritage Project and the Open Collections Program
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.
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West African Arabic Manuscript Project
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…
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Digital Averroes Research Environment
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…
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Firman of Abd al-Rahman Khan
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…
Robert Haug 