Periodic Reporting for period 3 - KITAB (Exploring Cultural Memory in the Pre-Modern Islamic World (700–1500):Knowledge, Information Technology, and the Arabic Book)

One of the most spectacularly prolific traditions in human history, the medieval Islamic world witnessed a literary outpouring surpassing the textual output of classical Antiquity and medieval Europe. The goal of the KITAB project is to develop and use technology to study the...