Key Words for the Study of the Arabic Literary and Manuscript Tradition (KALiMaT)

KALiMaT in Arabic means words; the Acronym stands for “Key Words for the Study of the Arabic Literary and Manuscript Tradition” (in Arabic: كلمات مفتاحية لدراسات المخطوطات والنصوص الأدبية في التراث العربي).

KALiMaT is the first online handbook of Arabic literature from the pre-modern and early modern periods. The new publication format promotes Arabic and English as the two languages of academic research and learning in the field.

Thus, all articles are to be published in both Arabic and English, just as the platform is bilingual in all its functionalities. Both the editorial workflows, the editing and incremental publication of the articles will be facilitated by the open source software Open Encyclopedia System (OES) engineered by the project partner Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) at the Freie Universität Berlin directed by Brigitte Grote. The entire platform is published in open access.