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*Call for Papers – Journal of Digital Islamicate Research (JDIR)* *Issue: July 2025 | Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025*

The *Journal of Digital Islamicate Research* (JDIR) invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit original contributions for its upcoming issue, scheduled for publication in July 2025. As a peer-reviewed journal, JDIR is dedicated to advancing the intersection of Digital Humanities (DH) and Islamicate Studies, fostering innovative computational, analytical, and theoretical approaches to the study of Middle Eastern and Islamicate cultures—both past and present.

We particularly welcome interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse studies that integrate Cultural Analytics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), visualization techniques, and other digital methodologies to examine the rich textual, visual, and material culture of the Islamicate world. We are especially interested in expanding our focus to include literary, artistic, and cultural production within the Islamicate world, encouraging contributions that explore how digital tools transform the study of Islamicate literature, aesthetic practices, media, and performance cultures across different historical periods and geographic regions.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Computational and Quantitative Analyses of Islamicate Texts (Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Urdu, and other Middle Eastern languages) - Digital Methods in the Study of Islamicate Literature and Poetics - Visualization and Big Data Approaches to Islamicate Cultural Heritage - Applications of AI, NLP, and Machine Learning in Middle Eastern Digital Humanities - Corpus Linguistics and Stylometric Studies of Islamicate Writing Traditions - Islamicate Digital Archives, Repositories, and Text Encoding Initiatives - Non-Muslim Literary and Cultural Traditions in Islamicate Contexts (e.g., Geniza research, Judeo-Arabic, Syriac, Armenian, Persianate Jewish texts) - Digital Approaches to Islamic Manuscripts, Calligraphy, and Epigraphy - Mapping and GIS Analysis of Islamicate History and Cultural Networks - Computational Studies of Islamic Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture - Digital Media and Islamicate Popular Culture: Film, Music, and Performance in Digital Contexts - Islamicate Digital-Born and Digitally-Reformatted Materials in the Contemporary World - Ethical Considerations in Digital Humanities and Islamicate Knowledge Production

The *Journal of Digital Islamicate Research* accepts manuscripts in *English and Arabic*. Submissions should be made via the *Editorial Manager* on the journal website https://brill.com/view/journals/jdir/jdir-overview.xml?contents=editorialcontent-128955 .

For inquiries or further information, please contact: jdir@brill.com

We look forward to your contributions in shaping this exciting issue!

Mai Zaki

Co-editor in Chief

Journal of Digital Islamicate Research