Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative

The private manuscript libraries of Yemen, estimated at 50,000 codices, constitutes the largest and most important set of unexamined Arabic manuscripts in the world today. The Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative presents, for the first time, access to manuscripts from three private libraries in Sanaa, Yemen, and virtually conjoins them to additional Yemeni manuscripts held by the Princeton University Library and Staatsbibliothek, Berlin. The texts in this archive were composed, copied, studied, and preserved by Zaydi scholars from the tenth century to the present. Zaydism is a leading school of Islam in Northern Yemen known for forms of rationalist theology that were abandoned in other regions. The Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative is made possible by a Enriching Digital Collections Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaf (DFG). The grant is administered by Princeton University Library and the Free University, Berlin in conjunction with the Imam Zayd ibn Ali Cultural Foundation (IZbACF) in Sanaa, Yemen. Information on this grant and related projects to preserve and disseminate the manuscripts of Yemen can be found at ymdi.uoregon.edu.         


                                      Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative


Saturday, August 13, 2011

Իսլամագիտական բլոգ

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Իսլամին ու Մերձավոր Արևելքին նվիրված բլոգ, ուր կարող եք գտնել քննարկումներ, վերլուծություններ և գրախոսություններ՝ հեղինակած մի շարք արևմտյան իսլամագետների կողմից։  

Open Access Dissertations: Al Manhal - Արաբական աշխարհին վերաբերող ավարտաճառերի և այլ նյութերի կայք

Al Manhal 
Al manhal is a non-profitable initiative whose mission is to contribute to the academic knowledge through creating an e-library that includes scientific resources that originate from and concern the universities of the Arab World and neighborhood countries . For this reason, Al Manhal is more than a project that integrates the principal activities of MERC as it is also a work tool which is open to all people. Its objective is to help the researchers to effectively use the Information Technologies at the benefit of research in social sciences. The content principally targets the students who are finishing their studies and for young MA and PhD researchers.
http://www.merc-manhal.org/web/

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