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Digital Islamic Law: Purpose and Prospects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2018

Intisar A. Rabb  and
Sharon Tai
Intisar A. Rabb
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Islamic Legal Studies Program, SHARIAsource, Cambridge, Mass.; e-mail: [email protected]
Sharon Tai
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Islamic Legal Studies Program, SHARIAsource, Cambridge, Mass.; e-mail: [email protected]
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“Information wants to be free.” Although this sentiment dominates the current digital landscape, information about Islamic law and history often remains bound to its physical form and to the price of acquiring it. One should not have to travel to several countries or be associated with the handful of institutions with large collections in these fields to gain access to these sources (which can still be onerous once there). But this is precisely the case for those who aim to do serious, comparative, or otherwise broad-ranging work in Islamic law. For Islamic law, there is a persistent problem of access and ease of use.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , February 2018 , pp. 113 - 118
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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NOTES

1 Miller, Matthew Thomas, Romanov, Maxim G., and Savant, Sarah Bowen, “Digitizing the Textual Heritage of the Pre-Modern Islamicate World: Principles and Plans,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 50 (2018): 103–9CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Benjamin Kiessling, Matthew Thomas Miller, Maxim Romanov, and Sarah Bowen Savant, “Important New Developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition (OCR),” al-ʿUsur al-Wusta, accessed 20 November 2017, http://islamichistorycommons.org/mem/wp-content/uploads/sites/55/2017/11/UW-25-Savant-et-al.pdf.