Disasters corpus in classical Arabic sources DiCCAS

  Authors

Cicola, Ilaria ; et al.show everyone

Cicola, Ilaria ; Pannitto, Ludovica ; Peta, Ines ; Fontana, Chiara ; Norozi, Nahid ; Demichelis, Marco ; Aiello, Giulia

  Item identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11356/2097

 Project URL

https://github.com/LaboratorioSperimentale/DiCCAS

 Referenced by

https://doi.org/10.5617/jais.12791

 Date issued

2026-03-12

 Type

corpus, text

 Size

10 texts, 289480 tokens

 Language(s)

Arabic

 Description

The Disasters corpus in classical Arabic sources (DiCCAS) is designed to allow historians to compare different accounts and narratives of disasters in a variety of classical Arabic sources. The corpus encompasses a diverse range of materials, including the Qur’an and the ḥadīth collections Saḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and Saḥīḥ Muslim, as well as several significant historical works, such as al-Ṭabarī’s Kitāb Tārīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk and Ibn Taghrībirdī’s Kitāb al-Nujūm al-zāhira fī mulūk Miṣr wa-l-Qāhira. The corpus also incorporates adab texts by al-Jāhiẓ, notably his Rasāʾil, and Ibn al-Jawzī’s al-Mudhish. The DiCCAS corpus is encoded using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines which gives the structure of the corpus and marks disaster related words. It is also available in vertical format, which adds linguistic annotations, i.e. tokenisation, lemmatisations and PoS tagging.

 Publisher

University of Bologna

 Acknowledgement

NextGenerationEU - PRIN 2022 20225NNWWE_002 "Environmental Anomalies & Political Legitimacy in Global Eurasia, 12th-14th century"

 Subject(s)

Arabic history Arabic text encoding Islamicate history environmental challenges premodern Eurasia

 Collection(s)

CLARIN.SI data & tools

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