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Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI)

Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI)

@Open_ITI

OpenITI—Creating the digital infrastructure for the study of the premodern Islamicate world. PIs: @sarahsavant1 @maximromanov @M_T_Miller.

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In 2026 our two weekly Zoom-hosted manuscript reading groups will continue: in Ottoman Turkish we'll continue working on our anonymous travel account Fisher MSS 03218, while Persian/Arabic will tackle new texts from the Safīnat Baḥr al-muḥīt. We'd love to have you join us!
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A truly deluxe chart depicting the phases of the moon, from a spectacular Ottoman Turkish manuscript, the Taqwīm-i tārīkhī, produced in the mid-15th century, possibly in Edirne, certainly in some relation to the early Ottoman court (Chester Beatty T 402):
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Tom Flanagan
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It’s interesting what legacy Heraclius continued to have in Islamic memory. A favourite Heraclius related fact is that there is a Swahili epic poem about him.
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Here's an historically interesting old Arabic proverb (recorded in the 10th c. CE): "Better than a Heraclian dīnār" aḥsan min ad-dīnār al-hiraqlī This is evidently a reference to the gold solidus of the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (r. 610–641)

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Folkloristan@folkloristan·
The Bahar-i Danish was a Persian collection of romantic tales adapted from earlier folktales by Inayat Allah Kamboh in Delhi in 1651.
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Our Persian reading group has started reading this selection from a Persian translation of Bahāʾ al-Dīn ʿĀmilī's encyclopedic work Kashkūl, contained within that inexhaustible sea, SBB Ms. or. fol. 248. The hand of the main text is a bit more challenging than our usual fare:
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The compiler of the Safīnat al-baḥr al-muḥīṭ, Muḥammad Khalīlallāh Shaṭṭārī, was of decidedly Sunni orientation, which however did not preclude him from including excerpts from some of the most esteemed Safavid Shi'i scholars of his age such as ʿĀmilī and Majlīsī
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A new essay by @Mar_Musa exploring the values and practices of the digital humanities, the fraught world of electronic surveillance and state legibility, and a beautifully apropos story uncovered during our Wednesday Arabic manuscript reading group, link below:
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Elizabeth Goodspeed
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New Casual Archivist about legal charts that look like blades of grass—from Cerîde-i Adliyye, a Ministry of Justice publication printed in Turkey in the mid-1920s. Check your inbox! 📊
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