Full !NEW! Shamela Library First Official Release
Margo Hoffer
Using this feature, a number of groups and individuals started publishing their own versions of al-Maktaba al-Shamila with many additional texts (e.g. the augmented Shamela collection of Islamport.com contained 3,300 books already in September 2006 and more than 5,000 books in March 2007; al-Maktaba al-Shamila al-Dhahabiyya contained 29,000 books in 2019). A number of these apocryphal shamela collections were created by groups from minority (non-Sunni) Islamic communities (e.g., al-Maktaba al-Zaydiyya al-Shamila, al-Maktaba al-Shamila al-Ibadiyya) whose books were not represented in the main Shamela collection. We will discuss these unofficial shamela collections in a later blog.
By the way, the official Shamila website says that they are currently redesigning the entire library so that it can run on Windows, Mac, and Linux and so that it would run faster. So you may keep a look out for that.
The JRL Turkish manuscripts collection consists of 195 items, dating from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century. Most manuscripts are in Ottoman Turkish, but twelve of them are written in Çağatay and one is a Latin transcription of a compilation of Turkish and Armenian texts. J. Schmidt published a catalog of the entire collection in 2011, which details the wide range of subjects that it contains, including anthologies of poetry, narrative poetry, guides for dervish novices, fables and stories, commentaries, grammar books, letters (among which, a number of Ottoman official documents), biographies and biographical dictionaries, dictionaries and vocabulary lexicons, travelogues, library catalogs, texts on religious ethics, jurisprudence (fiqh), history, medicine, geography, cosmography, astronomy, mathematics, and music.
The archives are open to researchers from Monday to Friday, between 9:00 and 15:00, except all official holidays of the Greek state. The archive is wheelchair accessible via a special entrance from a side-road, while a special lift facilitates access to the library room on the first floor.
Users of the OpenITI corpus will find the corpus in two key locations:GitHub( )and Zenodo (links for specific releases given below). The first is the activeversion of the corpus, and the second keeps snapshots of the corpus ata given time, for citation purposes.
OpenITI releases are published under the CC BY-NC-SA4.0license. Our files are based firstly on existing open digital libraries,which we acknowledge in our URIs. Please, do cite URIs of specific filesif you use them in your research. To cite the entire corpus, pleasecheck the release version which you would like to cite and use thecitation information from our GitHub repository( ).OpenITI releases are freely available to download, in their entirety atthe above link and Zenodo.
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