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Maxim Romanov, U Leipzig
Of graphs, maps, and 30,000 Muslims
Digital Humanities &The Premodern Islamic World
UMD (Roshan Institute) / MITH, March 1, 2016
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Digital HumanitiesEngaging in a kind of humanistic research that cannot be done without digital methods, where complexity and novelty of each research task would vary from impossible ‘without 500 monks at hand’* to otherwise unthinkable. Such research would rely on large volumes of data (e.g., corpora of full-text primary sources) and a variety of digital approaches that allow converting raw data into meaningful information and then exploring it with different visualization techniques in order to trace long-term and large-scale developments.
* The phrase is from: Mathisen, Ralph W. “Where Are All the PDBs?: The Creation of Prosopographical Databases for the Ancient and Medieval Worlds.” In Prosopography Approaches and Applications: A Handbook, 95–126. University of Oxford, Linacre College Unit for Prosopographical Research, 2007.
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Method: Distant Reading‘Distant reading’, I have once called this type of approach, where distance is however not an obstacle, but a specific form of knowledge: fewer elements, hence a sharper sense of their overall interconnection. Shapes, relations, structures. Forms. Models.
Moretti, Franco. Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History. Verso, 2007.
http://litlab.stanford.edu/ (Pamphlets)
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Method: Algorithmic Deformation“Algorithmic criticism is easily conceived as the form of engagement that results when imperative routines are inserted into the wider constellation of texts stipulated by critical reading. But it is also to be understood as the creation of interactive programs in which readers are forced to contend not only with deformed texts, but with the ‘how’ of those deformations.”
Ramsay, Stephen. Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism. 1st Edition. University of Illinois Press, 2011.
http://stephenramsay.us/
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Method: Micro-, Meso-, and Macroanalysis
http://www.matthewjockers.net/
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How is something like thatpossible in our field?
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al-Jāmiʿ al-kabīr
al-Maktaba al-shāmila
al-Maktaba al-shīʿiyya
Digital Collections of Arabic TextsLibrary Media Titles Vols Words
al-Jāmiʿ al-kabīr HDD, Windows 95 2,400 5,550 ~400 mln
al-Maktaba al-shāmila www.shamela.ws 6,300 — ~820 mln
al-Mishkāt www.almeshkat.net 7,300 — —
Ṣayd al-fawāʾid www.said.net 10,000 — —
al-Warrāq www.alwaraq.com 860 — —
al-Muʿjam al-fiqhī DVD 1,130 3,000 —
al-Maktaba al-shīʿiyya www.shiaonlinelibrary.com 1,970 4,175 ~280 mln
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Digital Collections: Problems
❖ Thematic/subject biases (“salafi” collections):almost no scientific, philosophical, medical and other texts
❖ Spotty chronological and geographical coverage
❖ Difficult to assess their overall coverage
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Digital Collections: Coverage Issues
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1200
CE
1201
-170
0 CE
1,817 titles
1,352 titles
1,103 titles 873 titles
al-Maktaba al-shāmila
al-Jāmi῾ al-kabīr
prior 1700 CE =3,200 titles
prior 1700 CE =1,984 titles
Distribution of Digital Arabic Sources(by titles per century CE)
Distribution of DigitalArabic Sources
(by titles per50 years CE)
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Digital Collections: Coverage Issues80
1-12
00 C
E
1201
-170
0 CE
191 mln 263 mln
134 mln 200 mln
al-Maktaba al-shāmila
al-Jāmi῾ al-kabīr
prior 1700 CE =456 mln
prior 1700 CE =334 mln
Distribution of Digital Arabic Sources(by words per century CE)
Distribution of DigitalArabic Sources(by words per
50 years CE)
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Digital Collections of Arabic Texts
al-Jāmiʿ al-kabīr
al-Maktaba al-shāmila
al-Maktaba al-shīʿiyya
Three Collections Together:
~10,500 texts (premodern & modern) ~1,5 billion words ~4,000 unique pre-1900 titles
less than 10% of what might have been written
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Digital Collections of Arabic Texts
al-Maktaba al-shāmila
al-Maktaba al-shīʿiyya
al-Jāmiʿ al-kabīr
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1,689al-Maktaba al-shīʿiyya: 1,810 titles al-Maktaba al-shāmila: 5,999 titles al-Jāmiʿ al-kabīr: 2,364 titles UNIQUE: 7,895 titles (~1,1 billion words)
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Digital Collections: Major Genres & Forms
التفسير Interpretation of the Qurʾān
احلديث “Prophetic sayings”
أصول الفقه ومسائله Legal writings
التاريخ Chronicles
التراجم والطبقات Biographical collections
النحو والصرف Arabic language, grammar & morphology
الشعر واألدب Poetry & fine literature
املعاجم Various dictionaries & references
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Digital Collections: Major Genres & Forms
التفسير Interpretation of the Qurʾān
احلديث “Prophetic sayings”
أصول الفقه ومسائله Legal writings
التاريخ Chronicles
التراجم والطبقات Biographical collections
النحو والصرف Arabic language, grammar & morphology
الشعر واألدب Poetry & fine literature
املعاجم Various dictionaries & references
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Digital Collections: Biographical Collections
~300-400 have been written~250 available in digital format
structure chronological, generational, alphabeticalcoverage social and religious, geographical
biographies
well-structured (linguistic formulae): onomastic section, birth [date &] place, teachers, students, contribution, miscellanea, dear: date & place, reaction of the community
> 400,000 biographies?
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Algorithmic Analysis
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Digital Collections: Structures
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Digital Collections: Structures
# $ al-Harawī # Abū Saʿīd Ibrāhīm b. Ṭahmān b. Šuʿayb, from the village of Bashan, a resident of Nishapur. ~~He traveled to Mecca and died there. He was a jurist, transmitter of Hadith. He died in 163 . ~~ ... He composed: The Exegesis of the Qur’an, Legal hadith, The Book of Two Celebrations, The Book of Virtues.
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Digital Collections: Structures
Algorithmic deformation (with Python)
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Gradual Increase ofComplexity ofResearch Tasks
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al-Ḏahabī and his“History of Islam”
تاريخ اإلسالم
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al-Ḏahabī (d. 748/1347 CE)
❖ a Damascene religious scholar, Šāfiʿī jurist and historian
❖ “The History of Islam” (Taʾrīḫ al-islām)
❖ “first draft” in 714/1314 CE
❖ 50 volumes (here: 4-50)
❖ 7 centuries (here: 41-700/661-1300 CE)
❖ over 30,000 biographies (here: ~29,100)
❖ ~ 3,2 mln. words
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–Franco Moretti. Graphs, Maps, Trees
‘Distant reading’: … fewer elements, hence a sharper sense of their overall interconnection. Shapes, relations, structures. Forms. Models.
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“The History of Islam”: Distant Reading
❖ Death dates
❖ Place names / Toponyms
❖ “Descriptive names” (nisbaŧs)
❖ 700 unique (frequency 10 and higher)
❖ 70,000 total
❖ ~ social profile (issue with their meaning*)
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“The History of Islam”: Distant Reading
ʿAbd al-Raḥmãn ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥamādá ibn Muḥammad ibn Ǧaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn al-Naḍar ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīḳ (may God be pleased with him!) al-Ḳurašī al-Taymī al-Bakrī al-Baġdādī al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mufassir al-Ḥanbalī al-Wāʿiẓ al-Ṣaffār, Ǧamāl al-Dīn, Abū-l-Faraǧ, known as Ibn al-Ǧawzī (d. 597/1201 ce)
Traditional Arab Name: Example
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“The History of Islam”: Distant ReadingTraditional Arab Name: Example
ʿAbd al-Raḥmãn ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥamādá ibn Muḥammad ibn Ǧaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn al-Naḍar ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīḳ (may God be pleased with him!) al-Ḳurašī al-Taymī al-Bakrī al-Baġdādī al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mufassir al-Ḥanbalī al-Wāʿiẓ al-Ṣaffār, Ǧamāl al-Dīn, Abū-l-Faraǧ, known as Ibn al-Ǧawzī (d. 597/1201 ce)
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“The History of Islam”: Distant ReadingTraditional Arab Name: Example
ʿAbd al-Raḥmãn ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥamādá ibn Muḥammad ibn Ǧaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn al-Naḍar ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīḳ (may God be pleased with him!) al-Ḳurašī al-Taymī al-Bakrī al-Baġdādī al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mufassir al-Ḥanbalī al-Wāʿiẓ al-Ṣaffār, Ǧamāl al-Dīn, Abū-l-Faraǧ, known as Ibn al-Ǧawzī (d. 597/1201 ce)
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“The History of Islam”: Distant Reading
ʿAbd al-Raḥmãn ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥamādá ibn Muḥammad ibn Ǧaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn al-Naḍar ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīḳ (may God be pleased with him!) al-Ḳurašī al-Taymī al-Bakrī al-Baġdādī al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mufassir al-Ḥanbalī al-Wāʿiẓ al-Ṣaffār, Ǧamāl al-Dīn, Abū-l-Faraǧ, known as Ibn al-Ǧawzī (d. 597/1201 ce)
Traditional Arab Name: Example
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“The History of Islam”: Distant Reading
ʿAbd al-Raḥmãn ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥamādá ibn Muḥammad ibn Ǧaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn al-Naḍar ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḳāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīḳ (may God be pleased with him!) al-Ḳurašī al-Taymī al-Bakrī al-Baġdādī al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mufassir al-Ḥanbalī al-Wāʿiẓ al-Ṣaffār, Ǧamāl al-Dīn, Abū-l-Faraǧ, known as Ibn al-Ǧawzī (d. 597/1201 ce)
Traditional Arab Name: Example
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… al-Ḳurašī al-Taymī al-Bakrī al-Baġdādī al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mufassir al-Ḥanbalī al-Wāʿiẓ al-Ṣaffār …
“The History of Islam”: Distant ReadingTraditional Arab Name: Example
al-Ḳurašī member of the tribe of Quraysh (tribal)
al-Taymī member of the clan of Taym (tribal)
al-Bakrī descendant of Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq (ancestral)
al-Baġdādī resident/native of Baghdād (toponymic)
al-Ḥāfiẓ “Preserver” of the Tradition (religious specialization)
al-Mufassir exegete of the Qurʾān (religious specialization)
al-Ḥanbalī jurist of the Ḥanbalī legal school (religious affiliation)
al-Wāʿiẓ public preacher (religious specialization)
al-Ṣaffār seller of copper/brass utensils (occupational)
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RADE
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Classification of Nisbaŧs from the Social Perspective
Previous work on nisbaŧs(mostly occupational):
- Hayyim Cohen - Carl Petry - Maya Shatzmiller
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Social transformationsDe-tribalization
Militarization Professionalization / Institutionalization
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De-tribalization
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Militarization
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Professionalization &Institutionalization
of the Learned العلماء
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Lineages & Households
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Lineages & Households
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Social Geography
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Geo-Chronological Coverage
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❖ A cartogram of a person—al-Baġdādī and al-Baṣrī—whose biography mentions Baghdad, Kufa, Basra, Medina and Mecca
❖ Such data can be grouped to show particular groups and/or periods
Baghdad
Kufa
Basra
Medina
Mecca
Modeling Geographical Connections
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The Core
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Regional Integration Social and religious groups
Urban centers
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Can we actually dothis kind of
thing?
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Reactions…
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Reactions… ❖ Quite a few outraged “NO!”s
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Reactions… ❖ Quite a few outraged “NO!”s
❖ The Taʾrīḫ al-islām is al-Ḏahabī’s vision of Islamic history from the 13th century
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Reactions… ❖ Quite a few outraged “NO!”s
❖ The Taʾrīḫ al-islām is al-Ḏahabī’s vision of Islamic history from the 13th century
❖ Or is it?!
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Reactions… ❖ Quite a few outraged “NO!”s
❖ The Taʾrīḫ al-islām is al-Ḏahabī’s vision of Islamic history from the 13th century
❖ Or is it?!
❖ 50 volumes700 year of Islamic history30,000 biographies~ 3,2 mln. words“compilation of earlier sources”
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“Compilation” ?❖ How does one write a book like that w/o copy-paste?!
❖ Did he paraphrase his sources?
❖ changing their language, and thus bringing 13th century language into the descriptions of earlier periods
❖ Did he “stitch” the TI from his sources?
❖ thus preserving the language of earlier sources
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KITAB Project: kitab-project.org
Agha Khan University, U Leipzig/Tufts U,Northeastern U, Göttingen Centre for DH
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KITAB Project: kitab-project.org
Agha Khan University, U Leipzig/Tufts U, Northeastern U, Göttingen Centre for DH
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KITAB Project: kitab-project.org
Agha Khan University, U Leipzig/Tufts U, Northeastern U, Göttingen Centre for DH
http://viraltexts.org/ Ryan Cordell, David Smith (Code), and others
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KITAB Project: kitab-project.org
Agha Khan University, U Leipzig/Tufts U, Northeastern U, Göttingen Centre for DH
http://viraltexts.org/ Ryan Cordell, David Smith (Code), and others
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How to address this issue?
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How to address this issue?Text reuse: computational methods of tracing long quotations, paraphrases, allusions, etc.al-Ṯaʿālibī’s Ṯimār al-qulūb fī-l-muḍāf wa-l-manṣūb and one of its sources
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Graphing Method
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Text Reuse in the Taʾrīḫ al-islāmTaʾrīḫ al-islām chunked and divided into periods
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Text Reuse in the Taʾrīḫ al-islāmTaʾrīḫ al-islām chunked and divided into periods
Taʾrīḫ al-islām compared with itself
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Text Reuse in the Taʾrīḫ al-islāmal-Sīraŧ al-Nabawīyaŧ of Ibn Hišām (d. 213)
al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrá of Ibn Saʿd (d. 230)
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Text Reuse in the Taʾrīḫ al-islāmal-Taʾrīḫ of Ḫalīfaŧ b. Ḫayyāṭ (d. 240)
al-Musnad of Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal (d. 241)
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Text Reuse in the Taʾrīḫ al-islāmal-Taʾrīḫ of al-Ṭabarī (d. 310)
al-Tajārib al-umam of Miskawayh (d. 421)
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Text Reuse in the Taʾrīḫ al-islāmYatīmaŧ al-dahr of al-Ṯaʿālibī (d. 429)
Ḥilyaŧ al-awliyāʾ of Abū Nuʿaym (d. 430)
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Text Reuse in the Taʾrīḫ al-islāmDalāʾil al-nubuwwaŧ of al-Bayhaqī (d. 458)
Taʾrīḫ Baġdād of al-Ḫaṭīb (d. 463)
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Text Reuse in the Taʾrīḫ al-islāmTaʾrīḫ Dimašq of Ibn ʿAsākir (d. 571)
al-Ṣilaŧ of Ibn Baškuwāl (d. 578)
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Ḏayl mirʾāŧ al-zamān of al-Yūnīnī (d. 726)
Text Reuse in the Taʾrīḫ al-islāmal-Muntaẓam of Ibn al-Ǧawzī (d. 597)
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The Scale of Text Reuse❖ ~11,000 pp. in the Taʾrīḫ al-islām (300 w/p)
❖ ~ 3,200 pp. from 15 major sources (100-800 pp.)
❖ 817 pp. > Taʾrīḫ Dimašq of Ibn ʿAsākir (d. 571)[passages 22-48 words]
❖ 413 pp > Dalāʾil al-nubuwwaŧ of al-Bayhaqī’s (d. 458)[passages 28-62 words]
❖ 279 pp > al-Muntaẓam of Ibn al-Ǧawzī (d. 597)[passages 25-60 words]
❖ 270 pp. > Tahḏīb al-kamāl of al-Mizzī (d. 742)[passages 21-46 words]
❖ 247 pp > Taʾrīḫ Baġdād of al-Ḫaṭīb (d. 463)[passages 21-48 words]
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The Scale of Text Reuse
Counting only earliest quotations: • 1,067,566 words • 3,559 pages • ~32.18% • 50% of quotes (25-59 words)
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The Scale of Text Reuse
Counting only earliest quotations: • 1,067,566 words • 3,559 pages • ~32.18% • 50% of quotes (25-59 words)
up to 74.11%
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Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ
30-35% from the Taʾrīḫ al-islām 50% of instances are 26-66 words
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Taḏkiraŧ al-ḥuffāẓ
25-26% from the Taʾrīḫ al-islām 50% of instances are 26-66 words
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Maʿrifaŧ al-qurrāʾ al-kibār ʿalá al-ṭabaqāt wa-l-aʿṣār
22-24% from the Taʾrīḫ al-islām 50% of instances are 23-55 words
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Working theory:
❖ The Taʾrīḫ al-islām is a databank for his other books
❖ Way to prove: experimentally
❖ Generate his “smaller” collections computationally>> generate and compare visualizations and various statistics (to be continued)
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al-Ḏahabī as a historian: Did he have any understanding
what he collected?
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al-Ḏahabī as a historian
❖ “Cities and Ports for Hearing the Reports”*(al-Amṣār ḏawāŧ al-āṯār)
* Translation by Michael Cooperson
❖ 4-folio epistle
❖ focus on cities and provinces (~80)
❖ statements about the role of the regions of the Islamic world in Ḥadīṯ learning
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Mecca / Makkaŧمكة … كان العلم بها يسيرا ف زمن الصحابة ثم
كثر ف أواخر عصر الصحابة وكذلك ف أيام التابعي وزمن أصحابهم … ثم ف أثناء املائة
الثالثة تناقص علم احلرمي وكثر بغيرهما
[In] Mecca, the learning was sparse in the time ofthe Companions. Then, it became abundant at the end of
their time, and then in the time of the Followers and their companions. Then, in the course of the third century (816–
913 CE), the learning diminished in the two sacred cities (Mecca and Medina), [but] became abundant
in other [cities of Islam].
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Mecca / Makkaŧ
[In] Mecca, the learning was sparse in the time ofthe Companions. Then, it flourished at the end of
their time, and then at the time of the Followers and their companions. Then, in the course of the third century (816–
913 CE), the learning diminished in both sacred cities (Mecca and Medina), [but] became abundant
in other [cities of Islam].
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Mecca / Makkaŧ
[In] Mecca, the learning was sparse in the time ofthe Companions. Then, it flourished at the end of
their time, and then at the time of the Followers and their companions. Then, in the course of the third century (816–
913 CE), the learning diminished in both sacred cities (Mecca and Medina), [but] became abundant
in other [cities of Islam].
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Classical Islamic Trivium (%)
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Classical Islamic Trivium (%)
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Classical Islamic Trivium (%)
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Classical Islamic Trivium (%)
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al-Amṣār ḏawāŧ al-āṯār
❖ Certain statements > about large groups in the Taʾrīḫ al-islām(at least 100 people, but usually much more)
❖ Uncertain statements > about small groups in the Taʾrīḫ al-islām
❖ No statements > no identifiable groups in the Taʾrīḫ al-islām
❖ What was his method? Did he count?!
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al-Ḏahabī’s method:How?
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Collecting,Organizing,
Categorizing
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Counting Muslims
• Hadith collections • Lexicographical dictionaries • Onomastic dictionaries • Terminological dictionaries • Genealogical texts • Biographical collections • Geographical texts • Chronicles
Texts with serialized datarun into hundreds
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Counting historians?Keen sense of proportions
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Geo-Chronological Coverage: Comparative Perspective
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Geo-Chronological Coverage: Comparative Perspective
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Geo-Chronological Coverage: Comparative Perspective
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Working with data?
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Reference: Birnbaum, E. “Kātib Chelebi (1609-1657) and Alphabetization: A Methodological Investigation of the Autographs of His Kashf al-ẓunūn and Sullam al-wuṣūl.” In Scribes et Manuscrits Du Moyen-Orient. Sous La Dir. de F.Déroche & F.Richard, 235–63. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997.
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Concluding…
❖ Digital methods allow us to get a novel perspective on and a better understanding of:
❖ our textual sources and information that they preserve
❖ our authors and their methods of writings
❖ and, in the long run, the entire Islamicate written tradition
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