A Near Eastern Studies and Digital Scholarship Conversations
@IAS Joint Lecture
Speakers: Verena Klemm (Institute of Arabic Studies,
University of Leipzig, Germany) Stefanie Brinkmann (Sächsische Akademie der
Wissenschaften zu Leipzig) Boris...
Simtho: The
Syriac Thesaurus, Beta II. Launch of
a Syriac textual corpus portal hosted
by Sabine Schmidtke and George
A. Kiraz from the Institute for Advanced
Study.
Simtho [simtho.bethmardutho.org] is a Syriac corpus
search engine with a textual...
My work on the lexicon of the Quran stems from my interest in
contact between Aramaic and Arabic. A question to ask is: ‘What has
the Quran contributed to the lexicon of Arabic? And what are its
sources?’ Using the Tanzil.net digital Uthmani text of...