Description: Uses digital methods to examine a written traditional holistically and forensically.
Brief description: Sarah Bowen Savant is a Professor of History and founding director of the Aga Khan University's Centre for Digital Humanities. Her books include The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion (Cambridge University Press, 2013); as editor, Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies: Understanding the Past (Edinburgh University Press, 2014); as translator (with Peter Webb), The Excellence of the Arabs. A Translation of Ibn Qutaybah's Faḍl al-ʿArab wa l-tanbīh ʿalā ʿulūmihā (Library of Arabic Literature, 2017), plus other edited volumes, book chapters, articles, and data sets (available via Zenodo).
Review Quotes: A fascinating exploration of medieval Arabic books. Savant's pioneering work brings Arabic studies into the digital age, offering new ways to understand a complex literary tradition. Savant introduces groundbreaking methods to visualize textual transmission and develops a new typology of text reuse, providing fresh insights into one of the world's most bookish cultures.--Antoine Borrut, University of Maryland