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Yasmin Faghihi
Head of Near and Middle Eastern Department
Ajāʼib al-makhlūqāt (MS Nn.3.74)
Ajāʼib al-makhlūqāt (MS Nn.3.74)
Division: Special Collections
Email: yf227@cam.ac.uk
Yasmin Faghihi's research interests include, manuscripts from the Islamicate World; the interrelation of manuscript studies within Digital Humanities; codicology of manuscripts from the Middle East, Asia and Africa including the collection history and data provenance; information networks; people in the digital age; managing modern collections; and the history of printing in the Middle East.
Ṣuwar al-aqālīm (K. 1)
Ṣuwar al-aqālīm (K. 1)
Yasmin is the content editor of FIHRIST a union catalogue of manuscripts from the Islamicate World and a data set for further research on collecting history, codicology and descriptive practices using TEI and Linked data.
Two works on the subjects of Medicine and Anatomy (P. 21)
Two works on the subjects of Medicine and Anatomy (P. 21)
Publications:
- Teaching the Text Encoding Initiative; Context, Community and Collaboration. The Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2022.
https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.72. - Burckhardt’s Sammlung arabischer Handschriften: ein Schatz der Cambridge University Library in Burckhardt, Leonhard. Johann Ludwig Burkhardt - Sheikh Ibrahim : Entdeckungen Im Orient Um 1800 / Discoveries in the Orient around 1800. Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag, 2019. Print. Beiträge Zur Basler Geschichte.
- Investigating the origins of Islamicate manuscripts using computational methods, The Digital Hum, 2021.
https://blog.cdh.cam.ac.uk/2021/09/13/investigating-the-origins-of-islamicate-manuscripts-using-computational-methods/ - Islamic Codicology at Cambridge, Cambridge University Library Special Collections, 2017.
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=15171 - The Irresistible Search for Hidden Scriptures, Cambridge University Library Special Collections, 2016.
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=12005
Affiliated organisations:
Professional memberships:
Digitising the David Jones-Jim Ede correspondence using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), (CHRG, 2021)
Qalamos: connecting manuscript traditions (DFG, 2021-).
https://www.qalamos.net/
Kitab Project (ERC, 2021-).
https://kitab-project.org/
Member of Advisory Board:
- Unlocking Digital Texts: towards an interoperable text framework (AHRC/NEH, 2022 -).
- The Speeches of Charles Parnell. (AHRC, forthcoming)
Associated research projects
Investigating the Origins of Islamicate Manuscripts using Computational Methods. Funder: Cambridge Humanities Research Grant Scheme (CHRG)
In collaboration with Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH), 2021-2022.
Enabling FIHRIST for the Digital Humanities
Funded by CDH Seed Funding Scheme, in collaboration with Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH), 2020.
FIHRIST – Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World
A free on-line catalogue for Islamicate manuscript descriptions.
Mingana-Lewis Palimpsest Project. Funders: The Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Islamic Manuscript Association
In collaboration with the Institute of Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, University of Birmingham, 2016.
The Cambridge Michaelides Collection
Funded by the Islamic Manuscript Association, 2015.
The Cambridge Qur'an Project- Digitisation of Qur'anic Fragments from the 2nd-4th/8th-10th Centuries at the Cambridge University Library
Funded by the Islamic Manuscript Association, 2011-2012.
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Collection items featured:
ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt (CUL MS Nn.3.74).
Christian Arabic homilies of the Church Fathers (CUL MS Or.1287).
Letter from Michaelides Fragments oollection (CUL Mich.Pap.X.8.11).
Shāhnāmah (CUL MS Add.269).
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