Middle East and Islamic Studies Library Resources

Digital Scholarship in Middle East Studies is a growing field in which many initiative one can find support at Harvard Library.  Some ways we are working in digital humanities are digitizing historical documents, generating maps, handwritten text recognition, database construction, and programming software for literary analysis.  Please feel welcome to contact us for a consultation to support your Digital Scholarship Initiative.  sarah_demott@harvard.edu

Harvard Workshops and Learning Labs

• Digital Services Scholarship Group (DSSG)
• Qualitative Library Resource Group
• GIS and Mapping
• Data Visualization

Harvard Digital Projects

• Venti, Vanessa. “Translating a Digital Collection: Adding Arabic to Coptica at Harvard.” Lightning talk presented at Harvard Library’s Special Collections & Archives Council (SPARC) Open Meeting, Cambridge, MA, May 16, 2024.
• Venti, Vanessa, Micha Broadnax, and Sarah Demott. “Celebrating Collaborative Digital Collections.” Sponsor video presented at the Digital Commonwealth Annual Conference, Virtual, April 30, 2024.

Digital Programs at Harvard and MIT

• Harvard, Program in Islamic Law, Sharia Source Portal
• Harvard, CMES Tunisia Summer Program
• MIT, Aga Khan Documentation Center, Archnet

Digital Skills Workshops in Arabic

• NYU Abu Dhabi: Winter Institute
• Ancient MakerSpaces

Digital Scholarship Projects related to the Middle East, Near East and North Africa

• Digital Library of the Middle East
• The Pelagios Network
• Dura-Europos
• Paleiades
• Digital Ottoman Studies

Journals and Publication on Digital Scholarship 

• Journal of Digital Islamicate Research (JDIR), a new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the intersection of digital humanities and Islamicate studies, published by Brill.