ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
The premodern Arabic textual tradition between 700 and 1800 is one of the most prolific in human history, with the number of surviving works surpassing the extant production of any other pre-print culture except perhaps imperial China or Sanskritic India. These texts can now be studied in completely new ways using pioneering digital technology that can identify textual units displaying what one scholar has termed ‘extended textual similarity’. This means not only word-for-word matching, which can be detected by existing techniques and has been computationally studied, but also textual overlap obscured by transformations such as paraphrase and translation. By identifying, documenting, and…
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