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Wednesday 8th December 2021
1400-1730
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
We meet for our termly Research Seminar, with guests from London and Cambridge, as well
as ·¬ÇÑÊÓƵ colleagues, examining how the advances in digital technologies have opened up
new avenues of analysis and new methodologies.
All are welcome to attend – but please confirm (for catering purposes), by emailing
s.a.wood2@exeter.ac.uk

PROGRAMME

1400 Opening Remarks: Rob Gleave (Director, CSI)
1405 Yasmin Faghihi (Cambridge): “DH research and Islamic manuscript collections: the
FIHRIST union catalogue”
1500 Mathew Barber (AL KITAB, AKU, London): “The KITAB Project: Assessing Text
Recycling in the Arabic Written Tradition”
1545 Tea/coffee
1600 The TUB Team (part of LAWALISI project): Belal Alabbas, Omar Anchassi, Rob
Gleave, Kumail Rajani, Pooya Razavian (·¬ÇÑÊÓƵ): “The Twelver Usul Bibliography: progress
to date”
1700 William Gallois (·¬ÇÑÊÓƵ), “Digitalising Islamic Cultural Ephemera”
1740 Closing remarks: Leif Isaksen (·¬ÇÑÊÓƵ Digital Humanities