2018-2020

This subproject, funded by the NWO program “Accelerating Scientific Discovery in the Arts and Humanities” (ADAH), harnessed state-of-the art Digital Humanities approaches and technologies to make forays into a curated digital corpus of Arabic jurisprudential texts. The project developed two web-based applications: Arabic BlackLab Fiqh, an application that enables easy access to the corpus of Islamic (Sunni) jurisprudence, 3rd/9th to 13th/19th c. H/CE; and Quran Footprinter, a tool that allows users to search for Quran verses in the corpus. From 2020 to 2022, this subproject continued under the title “Sentiment Analysis for Classical Arabic Literature,” under the umbrella of the Utrecht University Datahub. The subproject resulted, among other publications, in an Open Access article titled “Text Mining Islamic Law” (Islamic Law & Society 28.3, 2021).